The RGS Story, Vol 4 Ophir Loop to Rico 1994 ISBN 0-913582-58-1 496 pages The RGS Story Contents Acknowlegments List of Detailed Maps List of Drawings and Photographs of RGS Bridges Story of Lucien L. Nunn Stations, Sidings and Major Bridges - Mile by Mile The San Miguel Examiner articles and Over the Ophir Loop to Lizard Head and Rico included in This Chapter One Day of Operations on The RGS Map List The Ophir Loop Matterhorn Trout Lake Uncompahgre National Forest Lizard Head Snow Gallagher Trestles U. S. Geographical Survey Map, Telluride Area Lizard Head Pass Timber Coke Ovens Burns Winkfield Also included Right of Way and Track Map Profile of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, Dated Janury1, 1913 RGS Trestle Timber Dimensions Again, more of the same, as previous volumes. Talks about the construction of the RGS between Ophir Loop and Rico. As well as the many hardships faced by the railroad and the towns along the route. Winter and spring caused the most trouble. Severe snow storms that drop many inches, to feet of snow! Avalanches would cover the ROW for several hundred feet many times. Drifting to 20 feet or more in depth. Or taking out many of the trestles along the way. Spring runoff also took out trestles or washed out hundreds of feet of the ROW, sometimes taking many weeks to a couple of months or longer, to rebuild. Still very interesting reading! Up next, Vol 5.
