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hogger42

December 15, 2006 04:06PM

O.K., here it is right from the book.
The grandaddy of the D-500 was the tender of the DRGW 964. It was used to build idler car 010798 in Jan. 1940. It was equipped with three-way couplers and used at Leadville Colorado. In 1950 the car was sold to the San Luis Valley Southern where it was used for the frame of the D-500.
There was actually two D-500's. The first one used rubber tires between the trucks. It didn't work out, so it was rebuilt into the present D-500.
This came from the book Colorado's Loneliest Railroad by Bob Griswold

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SSLVRR D-500 Photo PIC	Loggerhogger	December 14, 2006 07:17AM
Re: SSLVRR D-500 Photo	Ed Stabler	December 14, 2006 08:07AM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 Photo	PRSL	December 14, 2006 09:11AM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 Photo	Ed Stabler	December 14, 2006 04:12PM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 some recent photos	Jeff Hartmann	December 14, 2006 07:42PM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 some recent photos	Gavin Hamilton	December 14, 2006 08:21PM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 some recent photos	Philip H. Walters	December 14, 2006 11:54PM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 some recent photos	Gavin Hamilton	December 15, 2006 12:50AM
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Re: Ugliest Thing on 8 Wheels	Charlie McCandless	December 16, 2006 06:01AM
Re: Ugliest Thing on 8 Wheels	hogger42	December 16, 2006 10:30AM
Re: NNG--SSLVRR D-500 some recent photos	hogger42	December 15, 2006 04:06PM
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