BHI Books D&RGW Davenport Switching Loco # 50

BHI Publications
Quick Pick Books

Our Quick Pic Book series shows the subjects in extensive black & white photographs which have often been digitally edited to best exhibit the details.

Davenport Locomotive works built #50 in 1937 for the Sumpter Valley Railroad as their number 101 in May of 1937. It stayed on the SV until 1963 when it was purchased by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad as the only narrow gauge diesel the D&RGW ever bought. The others that had been on the D&RGW property were US Army #3000 and US Army #4700N and both were running on the Grande as a test for the Army more than for the Grande. It stayed on the DRGW until 1970 when the D&RGW began scrapping the majority of their remaining narrow gauge trackage. In 1970 it was sold to Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad and then sold to the Durango & Silverton Narrow gauge Railroad where it stayed only a few short years before being sold (inoperable) to the Colorado Railroad Museum in 1984 where it was restored to operational condition in the past few years.

This book has 34 pages with 29 B&W photos