Re: Ladies and Gentleman-I think we have a winner!

I noticed the original 04466 had a murphy roof and the later car did not, which made no sense. The brackets along the bottom of the "new 04466" was the major clue for its original number. The 04999 at the Colorado RR museum used to be 04988 also. The 04466 switch seems like they were probably trying to get the good cars behind OY since they were not using OM as much. I looked through a lot of pictures and verified it through Steve Swanson. It would have saved me a lot of time to have just called Steve in the first place. His knowledge of the D&RGW NG is pretty amazing!
I don't know what happened to the 04545. THis is the list I have of survivors:
Durango and Silverton
04417, 04466, 04442, 04965
Cumbres & Toltec
04258, 04407, 04426, 04444, 04549, 04904, 04982
Colorado RR Museum
04255, 04999
Cimmarron Black Canyon
04414
Georgetown Loop
04432, 04351
Sumpter Valley
04951
Private party to Boulder county rlwy hist society
04953
There is also an unknown 4000 series outfit in the scrapper yard at Estrella, just south of Alamosa. I also think there is another one in the back of the Alamosa yard.