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Jerry Day

April 15, 2007 05:05PM

The D&RGW had six narrow gauge air dump cars: OR, OS and 0140-0143. Ditchers OW, OX, and RGS 030 were self propelled and could pull one or two of these dump cars for short distances. A D&RGW engineer who worked on all of them, told me that they used the dump cars to put rip rap along rivers and streams. I have a report of engine 268 working with one of the ditchers and a dump car on the Ouray branch in the 20s. They were also used with flats as Jimmy describes and sometimes 700 and 800 series drop bottom gons when doing ballast work.

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Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Jim McKee	April 13, 2007 05:53AM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Charlie McCandless	April 13, 2007 04:26PM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Jimmy Blouch	April 13, 2007 09:19PM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Rod Jensen	April 13, 2007 11:57PM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Jimmy Blouch	April 14, 2007 03:14PM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Rod Jensen	April 15, 2007 11:46AM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Jimmy Blouch	April 15, 2007 04:34PM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Jerry Day	April 15, 2007 05:05PM
Re: Cumbres, April 13, 1937	Rod Jensen	April 15, 2007 07:27PM

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