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These are my personal reference pages based mostly on photos of models taken from the websites of fine scale model suppliers. Photos of models are usually better than extant photos of the original; they are often in colour, have good lighting, appropriate viewing angle, attention to detail, and no obstructions in front of critical parts. Photos on this page from http://www.i-sng.com/ .

Passenger cars were painted Tuscan red up to 1924, Pullman green thereafter; Silverton cars were yellow (Rio Grande Gold) from 1951.

D&RGW RPO 61

D&RGW  RPO 60 Green c.1930-40

D&RGW  RPO 68 Green c.1930-40

D&RGW  RPO 119 Green c.1930-40

D&RGW  MOW X60 Grey c.1950

D&RGW  MOW X68 Grey c.1950

D&RGW  MOW X119 Grey c.1950

D&RGW Full Baggage 120 Green c 1930-40

D&RGW Full Baggage 152 Green c 1930-40

D&RGW Full Baggage 120 Yellow c 1955

D&RGW Pagosa Combine/Caboose #215, painted red before 1942

D&RGW Pagosa Combine/Caboose #215, painted green after 1942, cupola removed and car renumbered 212 c.1945, original 212 sold to Mexico

D&RGW Combine 212 after cupola removed c.1945

D&RGW Combine 212 with end ladders, walkway, and handrail removed c.1945

D&RGW Combine 216 Yellow Two Black Stripes c.1950

D&RGW Combine 216 Yellow One Black Stripe c.1955

D&RGW Open Vestibule Coach 306 Green c.1930

D&RGW Open Vestibule Coach 312 Green c.1930

D&RGW Open Vestibule Coach 320 Green c.1930

D&RGW Open Vestibule Coach 306 Yellow Two Black Stripes c.1950

D&RGW Open Vestibule Coach 320 Yellow Two Black Stripes c.1950

D&RGW Open Vestibule Coach 306 Yellow One Black Stripe c.1955

D&RGW Closed Vestibule Coach 323 Green c.1940

D&RGW Closed Vestibule Coach 325 Green c.1940

D&RGW Closed Vestibule Coach 319 Green c.1940

D&RGW Closed Vestibule Coach 323 Yellow c.1955

D&RGW Closed Vestibule Coach 319 Yellow c.1955

D&RGW Closed Vestibule Coach 327 Yellow c.1955

D&RGW Parlour Car "Alamosa"

D&RGW Parlour Car "Chama"

D&RGW Parlour Car "Durango"

D&RGW Business Car B-1

D&RGW Business Car B-2

D&RGW Business Car B-3

D&RGW Business Car B-7

D&RGW Observation Car #313 "Silver Vista"

RGS Business Car "Edna"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

E. R. (Ross) Crain, P.Eng. is a Consulting Petrophysicist and a Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience in reservoir description, petrophysical analysis, and management. He has been a specialist in the integration of well log analysis and petrophysics with geophysical, geological, engineering, and simulation phases of oil and gas exploration and exploitation, with widespread Canadian and Overseas experience.

"I am a life-long model railroader and have modeled in O27, HO, HOn3, and N Scales. Failing eyesight brought me to G Scale. My father started me in model railroading as a tiny tot in 1944 - he scratch built his first locomotive in 1940, the year I was born, and I still have this loco on my mantle-piece. I am a Life Member (#517) of NMRA, a member of the Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders (Calgary, Alberta), and have toured a lot of model railways, railway shows, and garden railways. I have never seen a model railway I didn’t like. An extensive library of railway magazines and books, covering topics that appeal to me, sit behind my office desk, ready to be put to use at a moments notice. I hope these pages can communicate to you some of my accumulated experience, my successes and failures, and my love of model railways."