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About Colorado Narrow Gauge 2022 Calendar
Product Description • Large blocks for notes \n• Superbly printed throughout \n• Reproduced on quality 100\-pound paper \n• Deluxe 11 by 14\-inch size\nColorado Narrow Gauge pictures the trains of the Denver \x26 Rio Grande\nRailroad. Established in 1870, the Rio Grande eventually operated 2,783 miles of track connecting Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Serving mountain communities, farms, and mines from the 1800s into the mid\-1900s, the Rio Grande ran trains through mountain gorges, and across the highest rail mainline in America to deliver on the D\x26RG’s early motto, “Through the Rockies, not around them.”\n\nEngines and trains featured in the 2022 edition include:\n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 484 and 491 are doing a good job of smoking everything up at Alamosa,\nCO with a westbound freight in June 1964. \n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 484 was plowing out the sidings at Cumbres, CO when it derailed on\nFebruary 20, 1953. \n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 495 is leading a southbound Farmington Turn three miles north of Aztec, NM on\nSeptember 28, 1960. \n • Denver and Rio Grande Western Class K\-36 Mikado (2\-8\-2) 488 is being serviced prior to making a\nFarmington Turn on June 30, 1961. \n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 478 and 476 are on a double\-headed westbound 22\-car freight, stopped for water at Sublette, NM on May 28, 1968.\n • It is June 13, 1968; Denver and Rio Grande Western 493 along with 483 has brought a westbound freight from Alamosa\n29 miles south through the San Luis Valley to Antonito. \n • Rio Grande Southern Mudhens 461 and 455 are at Ridgway, CO, being prepared to take a southbound freight to Rico,\nCO on August 31, 1951.\n • Denver and Rio Grande Western’s eastbound San Juan is making a station stop at Chama, NM in August\n1949. Some of the passengers have detrained for a break.\n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 486 and 491 are on a livestock car empty one mile north of Estrella (Star),\nCO on September 26, 1960. \n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 499 is on an eastbound 16\-car livestock train in Monero Canyon, NM on October 8, 1963.\n • How’s this for fall color? Denver and Rio Grande Western 488 and 492 are leading an eastbound Gramps Tank train\nout of the Narrows and on the approach to Lobato, NM on October 11, 1962. \n • Denver and Rio Grande Western 485, a Class K\-36 Mikado (2\-8\-2) is shuffling a cut of freight cars around in a couple feet of snow at the Cumbres, CO depot on December 31, 1950. \n© 2021 Tide\-mark Press About the Author Tide-mark publishes a notable group of train calendars featuring classic images of steam locomotives and great named trains of railroads (many fallen flags) across the United States and Canada. Calendar titles for 2021 include: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Candia National Railways, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in Colorado Narrow Gauge, Milwaukee Road, New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Santa Fe Railway, and the Southern Pacific.Classic trains are also pictured in Great Trains featuring paintings by artist Gil Bennett and in Howard Fogg’s Trains. Contemporary trains are the focus of the Railroading! calendar that offers 24 spectacular full-color images of trains from across North America. Tide-mark also publishes the Streetcars & Trolleys calendar with classic images from a wide range of cities in the U.S. and Canada.
