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John Masters

February 19, 2004 07:53AM

I'm a D&RGW and RGS fan from England who is saving up to visit Colorado in a year or two, I'm currenty modeling the two railroads and would like to find out if there are currently any de-railers on the C&TS and D&SNR, several people have told me that the D&RGW used them but so far I've not seen any photo's in any of my books.
I have located photos of de-railers on the RGS i.e. Rico coal chute in The RGS story Vol 5 & 6, did vance junction coal chute have de-railer?
In RGS story Vol 8 shows a de-railer at Mancos and Grady sidings, Vol 9 shows on covered in grass at Porter siding.
The Mancos & Ported de-railers are also shown in Sunset on the Rio Grande Southern.
Does anyone know of any more locations?
I would also like to know if anyone knows when the RGS changed some of their points(switches) from stub to blades?
Regards
John Masters

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