Re: Durango Mystery MOW Car

Here you go Dave:

D&RGW 06413 Flat Outfit

D&RGRR 6413 Built 3-1902 Cost $450.21

Safety Appliances added 9-1912 Cost $9.14

Converted from freight to work 8-1929

Assigned to Wrecking Outfit at Durango

Retired / Dismantled under AFE 3878 9-1955
at Alamosa. Book Value $78.97 Salvage $135.00

And, just in case the question comes up here
is Flat Outfit 07407.

Built as single-deck, steel underframe stock
car 7104 for the C&S.

Purchased by the RGS and renumbered 7407 on
(or about) 9-11-1938.

Wrecked 10-8-42 on Marshall Pass at Grays,
milepost 234.00 or 18.89 miles from Salida
Third Division, 1st District.

(The RGS Story Volume 12, page 399 says 12-14-42
but this may reflect the date the car was written
off by the RGS for accounting) Valuation of
salvage is shown to have been $113.13.

D&RGW 07407 Built 12-1944 at Salida under AFE
T-81 for $449.00.

Notation on D&RGW Form 3495 - Constructed from
salvage of RGS 7407 - Destroyed and settled for.
See Dest. car file 5180 Car wrecked Ala. TA-46
Oct. 8, 1942.

Retired and sold at Salida 12-1956 under
AFE 4535 for $251.00. Book Value $449.00
Depreciation $198.00 Sold to Luria Bros.

John T.