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The Caboose – A Ghost Railroad and a Reborn One

The Caboose – A Ghost Railroad and a Reborn One

By Mike Rosso on May 14, 2016
View of the Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 473 (2-8-2), train number 216. “The San Juan” in snow at Pagosa Junction (Gato, Archuleta County), Colorado, December 1948. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
View of the Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 473 (2-8-2), train number 216. “The San Juan” in snow at Pagosa Junction (Gato, Archuleta County), Colorado, December 1948. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library.

By Forrest Whitman

Freight Train Wayne and I were talking with a group of Jicarilla Apache folks in their supermarket recently. We were in Dulce, New Mexico and were wondering how we’d get any further on our quest following a ghost railroad. That ghost was the Denver and Rio Grande Western narrow gauge.