Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

History
The D&RGW was created from the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Rio Grande Western Railroad in (?).

Steam Locomotives
For pictures of many of the following locomotives, see:
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume I Rio Grande Southern and D&RGW Motive Power
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume XI Locomotives of the D&RGW

The D&RGW reclassified their steam locomotives in (?) to the follwing scheme:

A letter denoting the wheel arrangement of the loco followed by a number specifying the tractive effort of the loco in thousands of pounds. The following classes were used on the D&RGW narrow gauge. C stands for consolidation (2-8-0) and K for mikado (2-8-2).


 * C-16 D&RGW D&RGW
 * C-18
 * C-19
 * C-21 D&RGW D&RGW
 * C-25 D&RGW
 * K-27 RGS
 * K-28
 * K-36
 * K-37

Freight Equipment
No description of D&RGW narrow gauge freigt cars would be possible without the work of Sloan, Robert E. as shown in his book A Century + Ten of D&RGW Narrow Gauge Freight Cars, 1871 to 1981. For pictures of many of the following cars, see the following:
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume II Passenger Cars of the D&RGW
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume III Gondolas, Boxcars and Flatcars of the D&RGW
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume IV Refrigerated Cars, Stock Cars and Tank Cars if tge D&RGW
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume V Cabooses of the D&RGW
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume VII Denver and Rio Grande Western Work Equipment--OA-OZ
 * Narrow Gauge Pictorial Volume X Numbered Work Cars of the D&RGW


 * Boxcar
 * Class 1
 * Class 2
 * Class 3
 * Class 3a
 * Class 4
 * Class 5
 * Class 6
 * Class 6a
 * Class 7
 * Class 8


 * Flatcar
 * Class 1
 * Class 2
 * Class 3
 * Class 4
 * Class 5
 * Class 6
 * Class 7
 * Class 8
 * Class 9
 * Class 10
 * Class 11
 * Class 12
 * Class 13
 * Class 14
 * Class 15
 * Class 16
 * Class 17
 * Class 18
 * Class 19
 * Class 20
 * Class 21
 * Class 22
 * Class 23
 * Class 24
 * Class 25
 * Class 26
 * Class 27
 * Class 28


 * Gondola
 * Class 1
 * Class 2
 * Class 3
 * Class 4
 * Class 5
 * Class 6
 * Class 7
 * Class 8
 * Class 9
 * Class 10
 * Class 11
 * Class 12
 * Class 13
 * Class 14
 * Class 15
 * Class 16
 * Class 17
 * Class 18
 * Class 19
 * Class 20
 * Class 21
 * Class 22


 * Stock Car
 * Class 1
 * Class 2
 * Class 3
 * Class 4
 * Class 5
 * Class 6

The tank cars used by Colorado narrow gauge railroads were owned by privcate tank car companies, not the railroads themselves. The companies were:
 * Tank Car
 * Continental Oil Company (Conoco)
 * General Transportation Company (Texaco)
 * Union Tank Car Company (UTLX)


 * Cabooses
 * Passenger Car
 * Work Cars