Denver and Rio Grande Depot
Denver and Rio Grande Depot may refer to:
Rio Grande 169
Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 169 is a 4- 6- 0, Ten Wheeler type, narrow gauge steam railway locomotive.
It is one of twelve similar locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883.
It was built as a passenger locomotive, with drivers, the second largest drivers used on any three foot gauge D&RGW locomotive.
( The K- 37s which were originally standard gauge have drivers.)
During its operational life it was used on all of the major D&RGW narrow gauge lines.
It appears in two Otto Perry photographs on the branch to Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 1933.
It was taken out of service in 1938 and then refurbished in 1939 to appear at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
In 1941, the railroad donated it to the City of Alamosa and it has been in Cole Park there since.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No.169 in 2001.
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad
The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad of Colorado, a heritage railway, began operations in 2006, operating both steam and diesel locomotives in and around the San Luis Valley, on trackage of the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad.
Located south of Denver, Colorado, the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad operates between Alamosa and La Veta.
This route, featuring a climb over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains via Veta Pass, dates back to 1899 and is a successor to the original narrow gauge La Veta Pass line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, completed in 1878.
In keeping with the Denver and Rio Grande Western slogan" Scenic Line of the World"( see emblem here), the trip between Alamosa and La Veta offers views of several of Colorado ’s peaks.
George Jay Gould
George Jay Gould I( February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould.
He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad( DRGW), Western Pacific Railroad( WP), and Manhattan Railway.
Denver and Rio Grande (film)
Denver and Rio Grande is a Technicolor western film, directed by Byron Haskin and released by Paramount Pictures in 1952.
The film is a dramatization of the building of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which was chartered in 1870.
It was filmed in the summer of 1951 on location on actual D&RG track (now the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad) near Durango, Colorado.
The film's storyline is a fictional account based on two factual right-of-way struggles in 1878-1879 between the D&RG and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
(here the Cañon City & San Juan RR): across the Raton Pass from Trinidad, Colorado to Raton, New Mexico, where an armed confrontation actually took place, and the "Royal Gorge War" over a route between Cañon City and Leadville, Colorado."
Filming began shortly after the release of "Santa Fe", starring Randolph Scott.
which interpreted the railroad war from the point of view of the AT&SF.
"Santa Fe", however, had been filmed in Prescott, Arizona, without access to the actual locations, and portrayed the D&RG as an honorable competitor.
Both films followed an entirely fictional depiction in the 1950 western "A Ticket to Tomahawk", which was shot on the same Silverton Line trackage as "Denver and Rio Grande".
"Denver and Rio Grande" features a spectacular head-on collision between two Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotives that were slated for retirement and scrapping, filmed July 17, 1951.
Byron Haskin
Byron Conrad Haskin (April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984) was an American film and television director.
He is known for directing "The War of the Worlds" (1953), one of many films where he teamed with producer George Pal.
Gale B. Aydelott
Gale B. Aydelott( July 22, 1914 – February 16, 1991), better known as" Gus Aydelott," was an American railroad president.
He headed the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad for nearly three decades.
Rio Grande 223
Denver and Rio Grande Western 223 is a 2- 8- 0 Consolidation- type narrow gauge steam railway locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by the Grant Locomotive Works of Paterson, New Jersey in 1881- 82.
Number 223 was completed in December 1881, at a cost of$ 11,553.
Baldwin built an additional 25 locomotives in the same class at the same time.
Benjamin Franklin Bush
Benjamin Franklin Bush (July 5, 1860July 28, 1927) was an American railroad executive.
At various times he served as the president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (later part of the Missouri Pacific), the Western Maryland Railway, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and the Western Pacific Railroad.
His entry in the 1913 edition of "The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America" reads:
"President, Missouri Pacific; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; Denver and Rio Grande.
Office: St. Louis, Missouri.
Born: July 5, 1860, at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.
Education: Public schools, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and State Normal School, Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
Entered railway service: 1882, as rodman on the Northern Pacific, since which he has been consecutively locating and division engineer, same road; 1887 to 1889, division engineer, Union Pacific; 1889 to 1896, chief engineer and general superintendent, Oregon Improvement Company, controlling coal properties of Northern Pacific; February, 1903, to 1907, fuel agent, Missouri Pacific; 1907 to 1908, president, Western Maryland; 1908, appointed receiver, same road, and upon reorganization again elected president; May 1, 1911, to date, president, Missouri Pacific; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; January 4, 1912, to date, also president, Denver and Rio Grande."
List of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad lines
The following rail lines have been owned or operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad or its predecessors.

Question: Which country the director of film Denver And Rio Grande (Film) is from?
Answer: American