Re: RR Service between Montrose & Gunnison during WWII
| July 26, 2020 03:57PM |
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Jerry474 Wrote:
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> The D&RGW ran a two car train during WWII when
> a bridge project closed the highway between Gunni-
> son and Montrose. Otto Perry got photos of it with
> 318 for power.
tgbcvr Wrote:
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> Aha, that was it. I wonder if it was when they
> were putting the new bridge over the river above
> where the old Lake City branch used to come in.
> It features in a lot of the Junction photos. Too bad
> the rail line is all under water there now.
IMHO, Otto Perry's photo of #318 with a two-car train approaching Gunnison from the west on June 29, 1944, is one of the top ten RR photos ever taken — right up there with the best of Hastings, Jackson, Jukes, Link, Richardson, Shaughnessy, Steinheimer and West. A rather dark and somewhat cropped version was featured as the centerfold in Beebe & Cleggs' Rio Grande, which accounts for the distortion toward the rear of the tender in this scan thereof:
Of course a photo reproduced in any but the very finest of books is usually a poor substitute for a photographic print, so I highly recommend checking out the original — photo number OP-7840 in the Denver Public Library collection.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> The D&RGW ran a two car train during WWII when
> a bridge project closed the highway between Gunni-
> son and Montrose. Otto Perry got photos of it with
> 318 for power.
tgbcvr Wrote:
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> Aha, that was it. I wonder if it was when they
> were putting the new bridge over the river above
> where the old Lake City branch used to come in.
> It features in a lot of the Junction photos. Too bad
> the rail line is all under water there now.
IMHO, Otto Perry's photo of #318 with a two-car train approaching Gunnison from the west on June 29, 1944, is one of the top ten RR photos ever taken — right up there with the best of Hastings, Jackson, Jukes, Link, Richardson, Shaughnessy, Steinheimer and West. A rather dark and somewhat cropped version was featured as the centerfold in Beebe & Cleggs' Rio Grande, which accounts for the distortion toward the rear of the tender in this scan thereof:
Of course a photo reproduced in any but the very finest of books is usually a poor substitute for a photographic print, so I highly recommend checking out the original — photo number OP-7840 in the Denver Public Library collection.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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