Hugh Coffin Memorial Library ➔ Colorado Rail Annual No. 24 - A Ticket to Ride the Narrow Gauge
Hugh Coffin Memorial Library
Identifer:
MS587.C4.S-C4.0027Storage Location:
Scope/Content:
This book, for the first time, tells the complete story of the passenger trains on the narrow gauge lines of the D and RGW and its predecessors from 1871 until 1981. Included are schedules, car and locomotive assignments, sleeping cars, and many operating details. Year-by-year rosters untangle the complex genealogy of car rebuilding and renumbering. Rio Grande Southern, Rio Grande Western, and its Utah origins, Florence and Cripple Creek, and the Silverton short lines are covered as well. Historic photographs, timetables, of.cial correspondence, advertisements, a complete list of dining stations, and a description of surviving lines and equipment round out the book. The author spent many years gathering material for this de.nitive reference. By Herbert DannemanDescription:
ISBN 0918654246Subject:
A Chronological History of the D and RG Narrow Gauge Passenger Trains and their Equipment 1871-1981Notes:
book-railway interest:Medium:
Hard Cover: 22 cm by 28 cmRelated people
Coffin, Hugh (had as source)
Colorado Railroad Museum (had as publisher)
Coffin, Hugh (was donated by)
Coffin, John (was donated by)
Related Objects:
2014-06 (accession record)