Re: I have a RGS Question

After posting this view I received an email indicating documentation had been seen at the CRRM regarding the use of RGS power by D&RGW. At some point during the 1920s the D&RGW wanted to see how RGS passenger train power compared with the power D&RGW was currently using on passenger trains. This on the Gunnison lines.

I was at the CRRM for a brief period this afternoon and did a quick search through potential material. My time was limited and I was unable to do the kind of search I felt would be needed. However, I did find reference to the D&RGW leasing RGS engines #20 and #22 during last part of 1929. The engines had been delivered September 9 and the RGS had sent D&RGW a bill for the month of October 1929. At the time the bill was prepared it appeared the locomotives were still on D&RGW property. That was all I was able to come up with during my very brief stay.

The location of the view appears to be Montrose. There is standard gauge passenger equipment on an adjoining track. The structures on the left include the transfer foreman's house, (people in front) ice house and others. By later years some of them had been retired.

My thought is the train is #316, although it certainly could be the Ouray train.

I just received the negative a few days ago and the only information available is Rio Grande Southern #20, nothing else. And, at this point, I have no additional photos of this type.

Jimmy