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	The Narrow Gauge Circle - A Chronical of Colorado's Narrow Gauge Railroad's
		The next destination was the southern Colorado town of Pueblo.
		The Rio Grande Southern route traveled through some of the most magnificent scenery in Colorado.
		The Silverton Railroad pierced the heart of the mighty San Juan Mountains.
	www.narrowgauge.org (789 words)

	Colorado Railroad Museum - Golden, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Rio Grande Southern Railroad was built in 1890 from Ridgway to Durango by way of Telluride, Lizard Head Pass, Rico, Dolores, and Mancos.
		As the Rio Grande Southern carried the economy of the San Juans on its back, it slowly sank under the weight of bankruptcy.
		The railroad was asked for plans periodically, but could not furnish them, as there were none.
	www.crrm.org /rgs_motors.htm (509 words)

	Rio Grande Southern Railroad (Colo.) records inventory
		This includes a scrapbook that was found with this collection but which actually pertains to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad rather than the Rio Grande Southern: the VIP historic passenger car, the Nomad.
		Rio Grande Southern Railroad served the western area of the San Juans, with its circuitous route passing through Telluride, Ophir, Lizard Head Pass, Rico, Dolores, and Hesperus.
		1.6 Grand Lodge statutes of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship...
	swcenter.fortlewis.edu /inventory/RGS.htm (2757 words)

	Rio Grande Southern
		The Rio Grande Southern was a narrow gauge mountain railroad (3ft gauge) in southwestern Colorado running from Durango to Ridgway, a distance of 163 track-miles through the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains.
		The prosperity of the railroad lasted only a few years and it was soon placed in receivership under the control of the mighty Denver & Rio Grande.
		Nevertheless, the railroad survived as a subsidiary of the Denver & Rio Grande, with very limited means, using mostly second hand or leased equipment and with maintenance of the physical plant kept to a minimum.
	drgw.free.fr /RGS/RGS_en.htm (510 words)

	Rio Grande Southern Homepage
		Railroad photography by Billie Bowne in the post-war 1940s includes steam-powered action on the Denver & Rio Grande, both standard and narrow gauges, and the Santa Fe, Western Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Rio Grande Southern.
		The Rio Grande Southern connection to this movie is the appearance of RGS 4-6-0 #20 as Engine #1, the "Emma Sweeney," of the Tomahawk & Western.
		GUARANTY SETTLEMENT WITH RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN R.R. [This is the report on the final ammount necessary for the U.S. Government to settle with the Rio Grande Southern for government operation of the RGS during World War I and damages resulting therefrom.
	rgs.railfan.net /reference.html (1711 words)

	Turbulent history of railroad lives on in structures, memories
		The Rio Grande Southern Railroad Line was built by Otto Mears in the1880s to reach booming mining towns like Telluride and Rico.
		The railroad was running full steam in the early 1890s but was hurt in 1893 when overproduction of silver caused prices to plummet.
		The pieces of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad are still there, sometimes hidden, serving as a quiet reminder to the rich railroad past of Southwest Colorado.
	www.cortezjournal.com /archives/1news1327.htm (738 words)

	BookTrain -- Rio Grande . . . to the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Includes: an examination of 35 subsidiary companies of the Rio Grande and another 30 railroad companies that have been involved with the Rio Grande system; a chronology of the developement of the system's trackage--why it was built or bought, used, sold or abandoned.
		Their origins, involving several independent narrow-gauge railroads, can be traced back to 1873, only two years after the Denver and Rio Grande commenced operating trains in Colorado.
		Even less appreciated is the Western Pacific Railroad (between Salt Lake City and the Pacific Coast), which was planned, financed and built by the Denver and Rio Grande, and included in its "system" by various corporate arrangements until 1947.
	booktrain.bravepages.com /crr/rgpac.htm (511 words)

	Making Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Circling the basement walls are 55 feet of the tracks and trestles and trains of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, a narrow-gauge railway in southern Colorado.
		Popular with modelers and railroad aficionados for its beauty, the line’s craggy mountain scenery is punctuated by dozens of high wooden trestles.
		Ferguson decided to focus on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad after several visits he made to the area and after studying its history.
	www.stthomas.edu /magazine/showarticle.cfm?ArticleID=615893601 (932 words)

	Rio Grande Southern, Galloping Goose Engine #5 - Project Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Conceived during the Great Depression by the nearly bankrupt Rio Grande Southern Railroad, this strange bird paired an automobile’s engine and chassis with a locomotive’s drive mechanism.
		The original Goose, built in 1931 by Rio Grande chief mechanic Jack Odenbaugh, seated up to eight passengers while carrying a few thousand pounds of mail and cargo.
		The railroad’s flock of Geese (seven in all) made for affordable shipping rates and flexible service, attracting new customers and keeping the line in business until the early 1950s.
	www.coloradohistory.org:5000 /HSP/GGoosedesc.html (224 words)

	Railroad Equipment - Rocky Mountain Railroad Club - Rio Grande Southern Engine No. 20
		For about thirteen years she chugged up and down Phantom Canyon, until the flood of July, 1912 ripped out much of the track and brought a halt to F & CC operations.
		In 1916, engine 20 was sold to the Rio Grande Southern and it spent the next 35 years on the Silver San Juan Route.
		When the Colorado Railroad Museum was established in 1958, it was moved to its present site.
	www.rockymtnrrclub.org /no20.htm (179 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the 1930's, Colorado's famous Rio Grande Southern Railroad introduced the "Galloping Goose", a curious combination of Pierce-Arrow automobile parts and mechanics imagination that could carry passengers, freight and mail with a one man crew.
		The "Galloping Goose" provided the Rio Grande Southern Railroad with real operating economy allowing the railroad to operate for another twenty years while endearing itself to generations of railfans and tourists.
		Rio Grande Southern Motor No. 2 was completed in 1931 and was the first true "Galloping Goose".
	www.accucraft.com /AC78130.htm (177 words)

	RGS - Timeline (part 4)
		Below, in tabular form, is a summary of the history of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, which ran from Ridgway to Durango in Colorado.
		It reads, in part: "The faithful service of its many employees who have consistently overcome seemingly insuperable obstacles to keep this railroad running, in spite of the serious difficulties present by the rugged terrain, frequent floods, snow slides and inadequate facilities attending such operatiosn, is to be particularly commended.
		Ted Wiese was along for the ride that day, and captured a photo of the goose on the Cascade trestle during the Goose's run to the Osier.
	rgsrr.home.comcast.net /rgs/tline4.html (6172 words)

	The Rio Grande roads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		View of Mount of the Holy Cross; text in caption is "Scenes along the line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad", between 1881-1889.
		Another surviving bit of the Denver and Rio Grande's narrow gauge empire is the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
		The first, Colorado, Canon of the Rio las Animas, was taken in 1899, and shows the grade of the DandRG running close to the river.
	www.tiki-lounge.com /~ben/colorado/rio-grande (429 words)

	San Juan Silver Stage Online - Ridgway Railroad Museum
		After Rio Grande rails were laid to Ouray in 1887 Dallas grew by the tracks as the point of departure for teamsters to remote but roaring Telluride and Rico.
		Unfortunately—At the time of the Rio Grande Southern’s death the country was all caught up in the likes of Edsels and Elvis Presley and a new toy called TeeVee.
		The Ridgway Railroad Museum now opens its doors to a grand collection of artifacts and memorabilia not only of Ridgway’s own Rio Grande Southern but of all the associated railroads of Ouray County.
	www.silverstage.net /RailroadRoots.htm (603 words)

	train7a
		I suppose that any railroad buffs who see this title will assume that this railroad represents the actual Rio Grande Southern railroad that operated in southwestern Colorado in the late 19th and early 20th century.
		The Lizard Attititude Railroad is a Fictional Largescale Railroad that occupies a portion of the backyard.
		The Railroad itself is diverse enough to represent several time periods.
	www.homestead.com /islsmr/train7a.html (439 words)

	Durango Herald Online
		It was the attempt by the Rio Grande Southern railroad to stay in business when the Great Depression hit hard in the 1930s and the expense of running steam locomotives to haul mail and passengers became too much for the small Ridgway-based railroad to bear.
		It kept the railroad hauling mail and passengers until the early 1950s, when it might have otherwise gone out of business during the Depression, said Goose crew member Jerry McKenzie on Wednesday.
		He said no one knows where the colorful nickname for the "motors," as the gas-powered trains were known, came from, but that it's possible they remind people of a goose galloping down the tracks when they're in motion.
	www.durangoherald.com /asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/04/news040819_2.htm (582 words)

	Communications on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge Railroad Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Denver and Rio Grande Western's Fourth Division, universally known as the "Narrow Gauge", was an anachronism well before its abandonment in 1969.
		This division of the railroad was built in 1880 to tap the resources of southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico.
		This railroad was operated by the D&RGW until the line was sold to a private operation in 1982.
	www.faradic.net /~gsraven/telegraph_tales/drgw/part1/drgwcommspart1.htm (353 words)

	RGS Technical Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This configuration is probably similar to what the car was like when it was used by the railroad as a bunk car.
		The employee responsible for maintaining the railroad's water tanks was based in the car, which was moved wherever necessary in the course of his duties.
		It is very revealing as to how busy the railroad was and where the activity was.
	home.viawest.net /users/bdwhite (492 words)

	Garden Railroad, Garden Railroads, Garden Railroading
		Has two garden railroads, the Pogoshock Creek RR, which is a 7/8th scale railroad representing 2 ft narrow gauge with about 300 feet of track and the Runion creek RR, which is a 1/2 in scale railroad representing 3 ft narrow gauge with about 250 feet of track.
		The Cranberry and Linville River is a fictitious railroad based on the three-foot gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina R.R. that ran from Johnson City, Tennessee to Boone, North Carolina.
		The LiZard AtTiTuDe RailRoad is a fictional Large Scale Railroad that occupies a portion of the backyard.
	www.railsusa.com /gardenrr.shtml (487 words)

	RioGrandeSouthern.Com - My Silver San Jaun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ridgway is the northern most terminal of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad and is the interchange point with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
		Lizard Head is the highest point on the railroad and the end of the steep climb from Vance Junction.
		On this section of the railroad, the rocky cliffs of Burns canon close in on the railroad and the highway to a point where they become one.
	members.shaw.ca /riograndesouthern/MySilverSanJaun/MySilverSanJaun.htm (866 words)

	RGS Technical Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Trout Lake is the only one of the large Rio Grande Southern trestles still standing, making it a gold mine of information.
		It was maintained for a while after abandonment of the railroad by the state of Colorado, but for the most part, it exists today just as it did when the RGS ran trains over it.
		The dimensions of the wooden members of this bridge are consistent with normal railroad practice, and the metal hardware used to tie the bridge together is the same as observed in the remains of other bridges.
	users.viawest.net /~bdwhite/rgstec1.htm (1138 words)

	Cortez Journal Online - Cortez Colorado
		Grown-up railroad buffs in the solitary car suddenly turned giddy as the Galloping Goose began its tenacious push northeast from the depot.
		The seven cars were simply called by their RGS engine numbers until the railroad adopted the name "Galloping Goose" for each in 1950.
		Since the Galloping Goose always ran on gas, it was more efficient, which was important for the financially-stricken Rio Grande in the 1930s, Nelson Cohen said.
	www.cortezjournal.com /asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/05/news050611_3.htm (1633 words)

	RailroadPix.Com Railroad Photos : Rio Grande Southern "Galloping Goose" #5 at Dolores, CO
		The Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge built these vehicles, affectionately known as a galloping goose, to haul light loads of passengers and freight across the Rocky Mountains.
		The Rio Grande Southern served historic places such as Durango, Dolores, Ophir, Lizard Head Pass, Telluride, and Ridgeway.
		This photo was taken in May 2000 at the Rio Grande Southern Museum in Dolores, Colorado.
	www.railroadpix.com /rrphotos/detail/927.html (197 words)

	RGS Technical Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Rio Grande Southern ran from Durango to Ridgway, Colorado, and was in the last years of its existence.
		The little railroad's determination to survive had been matched by its creativity and ingenuity, but it had lasted about as long as it could and Club members were anxious to see the line as often as possible before it was too late.
		However, the 74 was still available and so, in November 1948, Engine No.74 was sold to the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, and shipped to her last curtain call in Ridgway, Colorado.
	www.orci.com /~bdwhite/74d.htm (3988 words)

	denver rio grande stock car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Railroad equipment restoration of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Caboose known as RICO.
		The Ridgway Railroad Museum is dedicated to the preservation of the history of railroading in Ouray County and surrounding areas.
		The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad - Cimarron, Colorado
	www.planetstockcar.com /nascar/denver-rio-grande-stock-car.html (598 words)

	Huckleberry Railroad
		Pere Marquette was absorbed by the CandO (Chesapeake and Ohio) Railroad.
		Of the 7 locomotives, #2 and #464 are the primary locomotives that serve the Huckleberry Railroad.
		Also, during its time with the Rio Grande it served in the Rio Grande Southern in the 1940’s and was used on the Silverton train, out of Durango, CA in the 1950’s.
	www.geneseecountyparks.org /huckleberry_railroad.htm (1060 words)

	Excursion #1 - The Rio Grande Southern Railroad - A Galloping Goose on the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad or Operating a ...
		Excursion #1 - The Rio Grande Southern Railroad - A Galloping Goose on the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad or Operating a Goose with a Video Camera Battery - Contributed by Stan Jennings.
		The Number 5 was built in June 1933 by the Rio Grande Southern using a 1928 Pierce-Arrow Model 36 body and 6 cylinder engine with a RGS-built freight box.
		At Ridgway the Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose adventure was truly over, bul it will always be one of my favorite railroad adventures, and I have been very lucky in being able to participate in many very special trips.
	tinyurl.com /3zo56 (2637 words)

	RGS Garden RR
		In 1987 I read an article in Model Railroader Magazine about a garden railroad that Russ Larson had built in his backyard with Bachmann Big Hauler trains.
		The scenery possibilities seemed endless and with two rapidly growing boys and an acre of yard, moving the layout outdoors had a certain appeal.
		After some research and several visits to some hobby shops, I settled on Nicholas Smith Trains, and a couple hundred dollars later the Rio Grande Southern was being resurrected in my backyard.
	www.trainweb.org /rgs (467 words)

	Steam
		Logging Along the Denver and Rio Grande Chappell, Gordon 1st Ed.
		This is a pictorial odyssey of the narrow gauge Rio Grande Southern Railroad of Southwestern Colorado depicting the activities of this 'stepchild' railroad in wonderful daily life detail.
		Overall a fine look into this fasinating little Railroad that so many depended on for mining, timber, farming, livestock and passenger service until 1951 and the wonderful people and little towns along the line.
	www.narrowgaugephotos.com /html/steam.html (450 words)

	Ridgway Railroad Museum
		Ridgway, Colorado, long known as the birthplace of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, is the home of a new museum dedicated to the preservation of the history of railroading in Ouray County and surrounding areas.
		The Ridgway Railroad Museum is a non-profit, member supported organization whose mission is to explain and interpret the role and significance of railroads in the history of this region by use of exhibits, a reference library, educational programs, publications and sharing information with historical and modeling groups.
		The Ridgway Railroad Museum is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation.
	www.ridgwayrailroadmuseum.org (355 words)

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