DRGW The RGS Story, Vol 7

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    The RGS Story, Vol 7
    Dolores and McPhee
    Sundance Publications Ltd
    1998
    ISBN 0-913582-66-2
    496 pages

    The RGS Story

    Contents

    1. Valley of the River of Sorrows
    2. Alvin Asbury Rust
    3. RGS Passenger Train Service at Dolores in the 1920's
    4. Hoofprints in Dolores
    5. A Day With the Montezuma Lumber Company at McPhee
    6. The New Mexico Lumber Company Railroad at...
    McPhee, Colorado
    Beaver Camp
    Action in the Woods
    Operational Problems
    The Final Expansion
    Run by Contractor
    7. Montezuma Lumber Company Railroad
    Trucking Distant Timber
    Logs Arrive via RGS
    Mill Fire at McPhee


    Map List

    Dolores Maps
    Sanborn Insurance Company Map, Dolores 1910
    Sanborn Insurance Company Map, Dolores 1919
    Dolores - RGS Map by Jim Kelly
    Dolores to Lost Canon
    RGS Evaluation Map of Dolores
    Sanborn Insurance Company Map, Dolores 1939

    Logging Maps
    McPhee, Colorado, Drawn by Jim Key
    New Mexico Lumber Company Railroad Drawn by Jim Key
    McPhee to Horse Camp
    Bean Canyon to Horse Camp
    New Mexico Lumber Company Coal Mine
    Turkey Creek Trestle to Beaver Camp
    Rock Creek Trestle
    Profile of NMLCo. Railroadby Jim Key
    Long Draw, North of Beaver Camp
    Beaver Camp Wye
    Johnson Camp to Milepost 36
    Plateau Creek Trestle
    Morrison Ranch to End-of-Track
    NMLCo. Proposed Lines
    Montezuma National Forest 1927

    Drawings
    Locomotive Nos. 6 or 7 by Ed Gebhardt
    NMLCo. 19-Foot Skeleton Log Car by Charles Goodrich
    Rock Creek Trestle by Joe Sacks
    New Mexico Lumber Company Car No. 525 by Herman H. Darr
    NMLCo. Shay No. 7 by Al Armitage
    Locomotive Roster of NEW MEXICO LUMBER COMPANY
    Locomotive Roster of MONTEZUMA LUMBER COMPANY
    A little bit of information on Dolores. Most of the book covers
    the logging operations around Dolores and the sawmill(s) at McPhee.
    And how difficult it was to run a logging railroad in extremely soft, muddy terrain!
    Also the expansion of the logging operations, the sawmill operations, as well as operations
    under new management. A hard way to make a living back then!!

    Next up, Vol 8.
     

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