Re: 2018 Foresight - #483 and an often overlooked anniversary on 11/24 . . .

pd3463 Wrote:
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> And the other three
> business cars were retired? Obviously I am
> confused about time frame.
1) B-7, aka "General William Jackson Palmer" (2nd), had never left D&RGW hands. It was refurbished as part of the "Rio Grande Land" era in about '64 after sitting on a siding near the Alamosa car shop for years.
2) B-2, "Cinco Animas", and B-3, "Nomad", both belonged to Cinco Animas Corp. by the same time frame and were available to D&RGW to use for charters.

All three cars were on a siding North of the depot at Durango (behind a chain-link fence IIRC), about where the McDonalds is now, for most of the 1960's & 1970's.
hank