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Moving stock on western railroads has always been big business and no less on the narrow gauge. When a large block was to be moved off the Rio Grande Southern to market the RGS and the D&RGW worked to move the stock with in the time set by law. Law was animals could not be in the cars for more than 24 hours, the shipper could make 30 hours at his risk. When the move was to be made the railroads had it set up so the cars would go from loading to transshipping point in this time.

A block of stock cars loaded at Rico would moved to Ridgeway. The train would have right of way over all other trains. At Ridgeway the cars would be turned over to the D&RGW and the cars would be moved to Montrose. From there they would be moved to Gunnison and from there to Salida. From there in a day or two off to market on the standard gauge. 

The loading and moving to Salida was done with in the time set out as know one wanted to pay the extra cost of off loading feed and reloading on route.

 

Video was taken on Bill Scobie's Rio Grande Southern Sn3 layout.  Enjoy

Every Day is Train Day
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cascade Active Member 42 posts
cascade

RGS VIDEO

Your video was great.  I like the way the train ran at prototypical speeds and took so long to get from one place to the other.  Your scenery and modeling is fantastic.  I can see where operating your RGS would be a real railfanning experience.  The sights and sounds of steam narrow gauge railroading.  It doesn't get any better.  It was a very enjoyable 40 minutes of train watching.  Thank you, sir!!

Jim Scofield,

Augusta, GA
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Rio Grande Dan Prolific poster 2,307 posts
Rio Grande Dan

That was a fun Video

Well that was the best 40 minutes of Model Railroad video watching I've enjoyed in a while.

I don't feel so bad about my backdrop scenery as it looks very much the same I just haven't got that much of my RGS finished yet. I was also noticing all the Box cars and other rolling stock in the yards. I've been selling all my HO standard gauge cars on E-Bay and buying rail line HOn3 Box Car models a dozen at a time now I just need to build the 200+ cars I have been stocking up on.

Again that was a very good Video and I think I'll just have to do watch it again just for fun.

Dan

Rio Grande Dan
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arthurhouston Prolific poster 1,154 posts
arthurhouston

Cattle look dead on there hooves

Great job their is always time for fun. Backdrop are well done, whole layout is well done.
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