Western Railroad Discussion > DRGW Museum Collection....Burnham Shops

Don't go to denver very often but when I do I try to get some foaming in. I went to the Barnham shops on the Water Board side and found the wreck train parked there looking like it was ready to go. The old Geep and Big Hook w tender and cars. It could also be a great display at a museum. Parked behind it were the red circus cars.

thanks for looking

john

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when were these pictures taken?

RealSteam Wrote:
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> when were these pictures taken?


week go wed.

This is like the Alliance thread, who knew there was Rio Grande GP-30
left.

rehunn Wrote:
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> This is like the Alliance thread, who knew there
> was Rio Grande GP-30
> left.

There are two left, another at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

railtime Wrote:
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> week go wed.

whoa...is that GP-30 still active? What's the story with the wreck train support equipment? Got any more pixs of the support cars there?

No, retired

Pueblo has been cleaned up a little but for the last twenty
years it's been the resting place for five or six forty foot
Rio Grande boxes in various schemes. But that GP30 takes the
cake and compared to the "hulk" at Golden it's downright
mint!!

It is a nice one, privately owned. Been sitting there for a very long time. Hope the stack is capped, I guess I have never checked...

I believe 027 was the North Yard hook? 028 is Sampson De Grande, the 200 ton hook, based in GJ

I think all that equipment is privately owned by a collector in the Denver area. They have been there for quite a few years. Evidently the owner has a storage arrangement worked out with UP. A very rare ex-SP pre-war single unit lightweight coffee shop diner from SP MW service was also there for a few years and is now stored (it may have been donated) with other equipment at a museum-type operation in CO Springs.

August 8, 2009... Don't know what number it is but this GP-30 is sitting out in the elements to the east side of the roundhouse at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden, CO. Sorry it's not sharp but is in the background of a picture of something else I was shooting.

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mojaveflyer Wrote:
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> August 8, 2009... Don't know what number it is but
> this GP-30 is sitting out in the elements to the
> east side of the roundhouse at the Colorado RR
> Museum in Golden, CO.

It's the 3011, only 5 away from this one!

The 3011 was obtained by the Colorado RR Museum from Omnitrax in Loveland many years ago. Some of us volunteers went to the old GW yard and picked out pieces from 3 different ex-Rio Grande GP-30s that were on site then. 3011 was stored at Coors for a while before a place was available for it at the CRRM. The plan is to do a cosmetic restoration, but that's a few years away.

The 3006 at Burnham has not moved in a long time, but every now and then, somebody "discovers" it again.

There are plans to cosmetically restore 3011, and place it near the entrance to the museum. This may take a few years, after all, the 5771 and 5763 sat down in Coor's yard for a year before being moved to the Museum. then was another year to restore them. The 3011 will look better, just give us some time. Another note, DL&G 191 took over thirty years to get where it is now. Our restorations are moving at a faster pace, but there is so much to restore, plus maintain what we already have. A shameless plug here the RGS 20 still needs money help with a matching grant. >coloradorailroadmuseum.org< keith