![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.](https://coloradocentralmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/RR-1880_web.jpg)
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.