Re: Corporate Names, again

Chris Walker Wrote:
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> If I had been able to get up as early as
> Hank.......

Well, I am a wee bit to the East of you, gives me an unfair advantage.

> I would have posted these fine examples in
> response to TomC but seeing no-body else has since
> done so....

But Chris, only one of those is a D&RGW Ry engine. #74 was among the Class 56 engines transferred from D&RG to the D&RGW in 1886 in partial recompense for the lease payments Fred Lovejoy had failed to make during his time as D&RG President (1883-84) and other damages. Later to RGS.

#83 was D&RG until it's end on 6/30/1916. Stayed a 2-8-0 too.

As to the original question, about the only pics you'll find of these engines(D&RGW Ry 1-9, aka D&RG Ry 110-118) in D&RGW or D&RG(during the lease period, 8/1/1882 - 7/1/86 [official termination date, but the story is more complex than that!] will be during the construction era, West of Desert Switch, Utah (West of Green River, 97 miles from the state line by the original route) and probably before the tracks were linked there on 3/30/1883. [Like the ones posted by VetaPass & Chris farther down the thread] They were very light and once engines could be moved over from the Colorado lines these were probably used, if they were used at all, as switchers in the yards or on work trains. They did make it onto the 1889 RGW roster.

Having done all that pontificating, there is a picture of D&RGW #10 (ex W&JV "Chamois", 0-6-0) on page 222 of "D&RG, The Early Years" that throws all that out the window by being on the bridge over the Green River in 1889! Of course the engine appears to be moving light, and the caption refers to the bridge as new (in prep for standard gauging?) so it could be in work service or something...

Hank