Re: Once again, redux: D&RG + RGW = D&RGW

> Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> > . . . built for the Denver & Rio Grande before the
> > merger with the Rio Grande Western to form the
> > Denver & Rio Grande Western

hank Wrote:
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>
> Again, the time line:
> 1900: D&RG buys control of RGW
> 1908: D&RG and RGW merge.
> New company is the D&RG RR (Consolidated)
> 1918: D&RG (Con.) goes into recieeivership *
> 1921: D&RG reorganized as D&RGW.
> Get it? Got it? Good!


Dang, Hank -

At my age, Ah'm a-doin' good jist to remember the gist of it - jist like in your Subject Line (above) -  D&RG + RGW = D&RGW.

So that there stock car would-a been red 'til 1921, and then black after?  Or did the consolidated company start using black in 1908?

- Willie
  *  The sequence is, " 'I' before 'E' EXCEPT AFTER 'C', or when sounded as 'A' - like in 'NEIGHBOR' and 'WEIGH'." **    
**  The 'A' in 'BRAKE', not the 'A' in 'FATHER'.

      "Get it? Got It? Good!"