Let's see how many D&RGW Passenger Car Photos we can put together... I will get things started off with D&RGW#1231 (Baggage / Dormitory / Combine Car)
Didn't get the whole car, but here is the Royal Gorge, that my grandson and I rode to the Grand Canyon behind the 3751 in 2002.
Walthers' corrugation disaster Looking at the photo of the Royal Gorge, I wonder whether Walthers took this car to be typical of the Prospector consists -- it lacks corrugation, as do all of Walthers' N (and, I believe, HO) offerings of D&RGW non-Zephyr lightweight equipment lately. But the Royal Gorge is a former UP diner that was acquired to protect the aging diner in the Rio Grande Zephyr consist, and has no relation to the C&O-ordered Pullman Standard corrugated equipment that the D&RGW acquired in 1949-50. I suppose I should be at the top of the list of Walthers' intended market for their D&RGW 10-6 sleeper, coach, and baggage car, but I haven't purchased a single one of them, and I don't intend to. Walthers stated that they would include corrugation as appropriate, and they missed their target by a country mile.
I always wondered what happened to that Ex-UP diner purchased by the Grande to run on the RGZ in its last couple of years. BTW, Walthers also ran an HO P-S 52 seat coach and that model is very close to the Prospector chair cars the Grande purchased around 1950 when the C&O backed out of their commitment to buy P-S passenger cars. Anyone interested in a plastic fairly close match should keep an eye out for those Walthers coaches.
the royal gorge is in fact a d&rgw car. the corrugated sides was removed due to under corrugated rust. as with most all pullman built cars.
I can't see enough of the car in the picture to make a comparison to the passenger cars in my books. Of course the removal of the corregations would have been rather confusing. But what is more confusion is I thought all of the former P-S cars (except for the combines #1230 and 1231, and Business Car 100/Wilson McCarthy/Kansas) were sold off and painted for other railroads. Yet one of the ex-P-S cars lost it's corregations and made it back into D&RGW paint? Didn't know that one.
Here's a night view of Royal Gorge: And private car Kansas at Old Tunnel 28, deep in South Boulder Canyon:
Hi all New here to Trainboard - I'm building a small N scale layout and wanted to include some passenger cars from the D & RGW. I recently purchased a couple of new Walthers cars -baggage and sleeper - flat sided, not corrugated. In the Mar-Apr 08 edition of N Scale Railroading there's a great article done by Andy Gibbs on pg 54 on kitbashing a Rowa Pullman car into a D & RGW Business Car labeled the "Wilson McCarthy". It's a great project and the car is stunning. Was the Wilson McCarthy a unit in a string of corrugated cars of that era? What were some of the others? Any help, suggestions much appreciated. Gary
Hi Gary, From Jim Eager's book, Rio Grande Color Guide, page 30, the WMcC was converted coach #1240, and emerged from the Burnham shops as number 100. In 1956 it was renamed the Wilson McCarthy. If you do not have this book, it is a must have for Rio Grande modelers. Also, you should join the Rio Grande Modeling & Historical Society if you are not a member. Lot's of good info there as well. http://www.drgw.org/ Thanks.
