Re: D&RGW Outfit Car 04414
| January 16, 2020 01:42PM |
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That car is one of my favorites. Having spent the first 51/2 years of my life living in an outfit car, they are all special to me.
The car was the office of the scrapper in Durango when the line was being scrapped on the D&RGW after abandonment. It was later sold to some folks in Gunnison. They planned on using it as a fishing cabin. It sat on he ground.....without trucks, for several years. I tried to buy it and add it to my collection, but the owners refused. Later.....the Park service purchased it for the Cimarron display. The above photos show the car after it arrived in Cimarron.....on trucks.
I am VERY happy to see the car restored!!!!!
Jerry
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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