Showing posts with label Rio Grande Western. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rio Grande Western. Show all posts

Monday, November 5, 2012

History: D&RG foreign offices on the RGW (1895)

These tables list the Denver & Rio Grande foreign offices on the Rio Grande Western when the two companies were separate. Taken from Official Roster No. 31, October 1st 1895.
NOTE: B.G. denotes broad gauge (now considered standard gauge)

Foreign Offices, D&RG Express
Rio Grande Western
Station
Agent Name
Station
Agent Name
American Fork
U.G. Merrill
Manti
F. Fouts
Bingham
I.H. Rogers
Mount Pleasant
Web. Green
Bingham Junction
D.W. Ammerman
Ogden
H.A. Lamdin
Castle Gate
J.W. Ray
Payson
W.H. Shermer
Clear Creek
B.W. Rice
Pleasant Valley Jct.
W.H. Sweet
Ephraim
C.J. Fisher
Price
A.J. Mead
Eureka
W. Allen
Provo
W.N. Dusenberry
Fairview
J.A. Todd
Riverton
C.L. Jensen
Fruita
F.H. Barry
Salina
J. Ricks
Goshen
F.W. Cole
Salt Lake City
A.C. French
Green River
F. H. Fike
Scofield
E.W. Pitcher
Gunnison
J.H. Roylance
Silver City
M.A. Boyden
Helper
J.A. Parrott
Spanish Fork
E.R. Hunt
Kaysville
J.B. Lindsey
Spring City
J.D. Simpson
Lehi
W.F. Welsh
Springville
G. P. Thompson
Lower Crossing
W. Allan
Sunnyside
W.R. Olin
Mammoth Mill
W.M. Moss
Thistle
W.H. Mitchell
Murray
C.B. Atterbury
Thompson
C.E. Ingalls


Track Scales – R.G.W. Railway.
Location
Gauge
Capacity
Length
Ogden
B.G.
50 Tons
42 feet
Salt Lake
B.G.
50 tons
42 feet
Salt Lake
B.G.
40 tons
34 feet
Bingham Junction
B.G.
50 tons
42 feet
Thistle
B.G.
50 tons
42 feet
Scofield
B.G.
30 tons
28 feet


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Victorian Advertising of the Rio Grande

Rio Grande Western advertisement, from the back cover of a mining guide for Mercur (then part of the Camp Floyd mining district) entitled Utah Revealed. No publishing date is known.