The R.G.S. story, Vol. III - Over the Bridges...Vance Junction to Ophir

Engineering & Transportation

Dell A. McCoy

Collman, Russ

William A. Graves

Transportation

Sundance

The R.G.S. Story, Vol. V - Rico and the Mines

William R. Graves

This beautiful book, illustrated throughout with black and white photos, follows the RGS as it struggled to stay afloat during the Great Depression. Details the use of small, hand-me-down locomotives which became the famous "Galloping Goose" between Ridgway and Durango, the ominipresent menace of floods and rockslides, fire and blizzard, as well as life in the mines that supported the railroad. This superb mile-by-mile photographic study takes you through the last years of the RGS in Rico down past the tumbling Dolores River. The book also covers the A. A. Rust logging railroad, newspaper articles that flesh out the struggles with derailments and floods, and the efforts of Elizabeth (Betty) Pellet to persuade the federal government to keep the RGS operating during World War II. With maps, line drawings (by Mike Blazek), gradient profiles, etc. 480 pages.

The R.G.S. Story, Vol. 6: Rico to Dolores

Russ Collman

RGS Story Volume 8 contains pictures from World War II until the abandonment. Leaving Dolores, the reader is taken Lost Cañon to Mancos, and the lumber camp at Glencoe. Station facilities are shown on maps and drawings, with accompanying photographs. After Mancos, the RGS proceeded up the 2.5-percent grade toward Cima summit. 416 pages, with 280 black-and-white pictures and 55 full-color views.

Rio Grande Southern: Over the Bridges... Dolores to Mancos (The R.G.S. Story, Vol. 8)

History

W. George Cook

Americas

Sundance Publications

Hardbound; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 416 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; 54 full-color photos; 350 black & white views; ISBN # 0-913582-71-9. Includes line drawings of structures in Hesperus and West Durango by Mike Blazek and covers the final 30 miles of the RGS with a total of 34 maps showing locations of mileposts and bridges. Visit little-known mining camps and the scenic wonders of Wildcat Cañon!

Rio Grande Southern: Over the Bridges... Grady to Durango (The R.G.S. Story, Vol. 9)

The RGS Story Volume 11 by Russ Collman, Dell A. McCoy and Robert W. McLeod with Several Guest Contributors Durango and the Perins Peak Branch BOOK IS NEW; Sundance Publications Ltd.; first edition, first printing; April 2005; hardbound; about 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 376 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; 26 detailed maps; 17 full-color photos; 321 historic black & white views; features line drawings of buildings and structures along the RGS by Mike Blazek. ISBN # 0-913582-76-X. CONTENTS: *DURANGO'S FIRST SETTLER *THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE REACHES DURANGO *DURANGO ACQUIRES A TROLLEY *BATTLE FOR THE COAL FIELDS AND THREE-RAIL DAYS *HANDLING THE U.S. MAIL AND RAILFANS ARRIVE ON THE RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN *THE BOSTON COAL & FUEL COMPANY RAILROAD TO PERINS PEAK THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE Railway's tracklayers reached Durango, Colorado, on July 27, 1881, after spiking steel south and west from Alamosa over Cumbres Pass. With the arrival of the railroad on the scene, gold and silver ore could be shipped inexpensively out of the San Juan mountain region. The D&RG chose this site for a town because of the availability of coal. Smelters sprang into existence almost overnight in the fledgling town and mass quantities of raw ore no longer needed to be shipped to Denver or Pueblo. This book illustrates Durango's development year-by-year as the town progressed and the D&RG upgraded its railroad facilities. Once Otto Mears' Rio Grande Southern arrived on the scene in 1890, additional revenue created a boom as travelers ate, drank and bedded down, as well as shopped in Durango. This growing town was an interchange point between two narrow-gauge railroads and the history of the RGS becomes inseparably entwined at Durango with that of the D&RG--which controlled the RGS throughout most of its existence.

THE R. G. S. STORY. RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN. Volume XI. Durango and the Perins Peak Branch.

Robert W. McLeod

Sundance Books

Colorado Central Rail Road. Golden, Central City, Georgetown.

Abbott, Dan

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