DRGW D&RGW History?

BoxcabE50 Jun 25, 2005

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    What years were Wilson McCarthy/Henry Swan the appointed receivers? What was the date the RR emerged from being entrusted?

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  2. r_i_straw

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    If I recall correctly, it was November of 1935. I don't know how long it lasted.
     
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  3. slimjim

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    November 1935:
    D&RGW placed into receivership, with Wilson McCarthy and Henry Swan appointed as receivers. (Athearn, p. 307) D&SL was also placed into receivership in December 1934 with McCarthy appointed as the receiver. (Athearn, p. 304)

    April 11, 1947:
    Property of the D&RGW was sold to the reorganized D&RGW, merging the old D&RGW with the Denver & Salt Lake Railway, the Denver & Salt Lake Western Railroad (the Dotsero Cutoff), the Rio Grande Junction Railroad, and the Goshen Valley Railroad. (Athearn, p. 328; LeMassena, p. 163)

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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Thanks! That's plenty of info.

    Do you have any further info on the Denver, Salt Lake & Western? Was it merely a paper entity? Or actually considered to be an operating company?

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  5. BoxcabE50

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    Jeff-

    Good information in that profile page link. Sometimes this railroad history stuff can sure be a tangled web!

    Thanks!

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