A Catalog of Captive D&RGW Cabooses
The Society maintains this listing of all captive (preserved) D&RGW cabooses that are either still in use (i.e. on the narrow gauge lines), on display at varied museums, stored with public access, or privately owned. This list of cabooses was originally compiled by Roger Kirkpatrick in 1999 and we strive to maintain this list of cabooses as best as possible.
Updates
Latest updates to the list are in BOLD below and details are in the comments at the bottom of the page.
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Note
Not all of these cabooses are accessible, understand that most of the stored and private cabooses do not have or have limited public access. Permission from those individual owners is recommended prior to a visit.
Cabooses
| CAR # | City | State | Gauge | Notes & Location Information |
| 0306 | Chama | NM | NG | replica, made from wooden boxcar, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad |
| 0313 | Aztec | NM | NG | replica, made from wooden boxcar, Aztec Museum, 125 North Main, 505 |
| 0500 | Durango | CO | NG | as Durango & Silverton 0500, wood, cupola, built 1886, Depot, from |
| 0501 | Durango | CO | NG | no markings, wood, cupola, Jackson Place, off 8th Avenue |
| 0503 | Chama | NM | NG | as C&TS 0503, wood, cupola, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, 505-7 |
| 0504 | ? | ME | NG | LOCATION? |
| 0505 | Durango | CO | NG | as D&SNG 0505, wood, cupola, Durango & Silverton NG Railroad, 303-2 |
| 0510 | ? | NG | JA RGS W409/0409, Disney Japan?, from Heritage Square, Golden, Colorado | |
| 0516 | Silverton | CO | NG | as SRR 17, ex-D&RG 17, ex-SG&N 17, ex-SN 005, wood, cupola, blt. 1918 |
| 0517 | Fairplay | CO | NG | no markings, wood, cupola, South Park City Mus., with United Fruit |
| 0518 | Durango | CO | NG | wood, cupola, D&RGW Hist. Foundation, 586 Animas Drive, 970-259-949 |
| 0524 | Golden | CO | NG | wood, cupola, built 1880 by D&RG, Colorado Railroad Museum, POB 10, |
| 0526 | Flint | MI | NG | wood, cupola, stored at Huckleberry Railroad, Bray Road, 810-736-17 |
| 0540 | Durango | CO | NG | as D&SNG 0540, wood, cupola, Durango & Silverton NG Railroad, 303-2 |
| 0548 | Golden | CO | NG | as D&RG 49, wood, cupola, Colorado Railroad Museum, 17155 West 44th |
| 0573 | Ogden | UT | NG | Donated to Utah State Railroad Museum, from Farmington, Utah, destroyed in 2006 Shupe-Williams Candy Factory fire in which three narrow gauge train cars (a gondola, boxcar, and caboose 0573) were burned. Engine D&RGW 223 survived the fire |
| 0574 | Eckert? | CO | NG | north of Orchard City, GONE TO Silver Plume? |
| 0575 | Ouray | CO | NG | wood, cupola, Ouray City Park and Pool, off US 550 |
| 0576 | Salida | CO | NG | Owned by city, was sitting on tender trucks, moved from Salida Museum to the end of North F Street in downtown Salida across the Arkansas River in the old railroad yard on Mar. 29, 2014, Currently in Silverton being restored by Klinke & Lew with new frame and proper trucks, planned to return to Salida by end of year (07/2023) |
| 0577 | Cimarron | CO | NG | wood, cupola, Curecanti National Recreation Area, US 50, w/D&RGW 27 |
| 0578 | Golden | CO | NG | wood, cupola, built 1886 by D&RG, Colorado Railroad Museum, 303-279 |
| 0579 | Antonito | CO | NG | Completely restored, ex-C&TS 0579, wood, cupola, and now in use with charters on C&TS |
| 0580 | Del Norte | CO | NG | no markings, wood, cupola, sitting on trucks, Visitor Info. Center, |
| 0584 | Royal Gorge | CO | NG | Destroyed in the Royal Gorge (forest) Fire in June 2013; wood, cupola, Royal Gorge Park, was displayed inside gate with D&RGW 499 steam locomotive. |
| 0585 | Fairplay | CO | NG | no markings, wood, end cupola, Main Street at South Park City, need |
| 0586 | Silver Plume | CO | NG | wood, end cupola, Georgetown Loop Railroad Depot, other railroad eq |
| 0587 | Hesston | IN | NG | trucks and frame only, burned in car barn fire |
| 0588 | Lake City | CO | NG | wood, end cupola, Visitor Information Center |
| 0589 | Gunnison | CO | NG | wood, cupola, Pioneer Museum, US 50, with D&RGW 268 steam loco, 800 |
| 0825 | Westcliffe | CO | STD | 825, wood construction, end cupola, no trucks, Seifert's, 1 mile north on Rt 69, Moved to town in Westcliffe sitting on freight car trucks at museum (07/2023) |
| 0952 | Cripple Creek | CO | STD | wood, cupola, sitting on CB&Q trucks, Cripple Creek & Victor Depot, |
| 1100 | Tooele | UT | STD | as TVR 04, wood, cupola, Tooele County RR Museum, 35 North Broadway |
| 01108 | Westcliffe | CO | STD | wood construction, center cupola, on Boviard's Iron Horse Ranch, 6 mi north of town |
| 1126 | Fraser | CO | STD | no markings, wood, no trucks, Byers Peak Ranch, Co. 73, James Delan |
| 1132 | Pueblo | CO | STD | wood, end cupola, Resulana Road, east of 29th Lane, south of US 50 |
| 1152 | Lake City | CO | STD | wood construction, end cupola, privately owned by Tom Russell, located a few miles north of town is not sitting on trucks (07/2023) |
| 1157 | Masonville | CO | STD | wood, cupola, no trucks, Cabin, Buckhorn Rd. (CO 27 to CO 44H), 15 |
| 1390 | Kremmling | CO | STD | steel, cupola, M.G.McCall, CO Rd 162, off Red Dirt Road, north of R |
| 1391 | Golden | CO | STD | as D&SL 10060, Colorado Railroad Museum |
| 1401 | Weld County | CO | STD | Anschutz Eagle Ranch, Hardin/Canton area? |
| 1402 | Canon City | CO | STD | Royal Gorge Information Center, Burger King, US 50, east side of to |
| 1405 | Weld County | CO | STD | Anschutz Eagle Ranch, Hardin/Canton area? |
| 1407 | Citrus Height | CA | STD | Jim Dobbas Equipment & Scrap, 7920 Antelope Road, SOLD? |
| 1408 | Bayfield | CO | STD | Pine River Ranch, 5 miles north on CO Rd 501, information - William |
| 1409 | Antelope | CA | STD | Jim Dobbas Equipment & Scrap, 7920 Antelope Road, SOLD? |
| 1414 | Portola | CA | STD | Portola Railroad Museum, 700 Western Pacific Way, 96122, 916-832-41 |
| 1416 | Cardondale | CO | STD | Denver & New Orleans RR Club, Parker, CO. Sold & moved to Caboose (Hobbies) in Lakewood, Co. Feb. 2018, Moved to Carbondale, Co. 2023 |
| 1417 | Ringoes | NJ | STD | Black River & Western Railroad |
| 1418 | Heber Valley | UT | STD | 160 North 900 East Spainish Forks UT, Moved to Heber Valley Railroad UT |
| 1420 | Mapleton | UT | STD | Private Owner, located in backyard, seeking more information - Sept. 2020 |
| 1422 | Ringoes | NJ | STD | Black River & Western Railroad |
| 1423 | Alamosa | CO | STD | in local service, Union Pacific Yard |
| 1427 | Parker | CO | STD | blt. 6/42, Vince Dandurand, 8000 N. Silo Dr., e. of Hilltop, n. of |
| 1428 | Citrus Height | CA | STD | Jim Dobbas Equipment & Scrap, 7920 Antelope Road, SOLD? |
| 1431 | Chiloquin | OR | STD | Quentin Breen, Train Mountain Park, 36941 South Chiloquin Road |
| 1432 | Pueblo | CO | STD | Union Depot, Pueblo Locomotive & Rail Historical Society |
| 1433 | Tuscon | AZ | STD | as RGEX 01433, owned by Dan Quiat & stored on siding Strasburg Colo, sold in 2001 to a hobby shop owner in Arizona City, Arizona, In 2005 moved to Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum in Tuscon AZ |
| 1435 | Westcliffe | CO | STD | Visitor Information Center, Main Street |
| 1438 | Denver? | CO | STD | Iron & Metal Scrap Yard, 54th & Franklin, SOLD TO Dan Quiat or SCRA |
| 1440 | Santa Fe | NM | STD | as Santa Fe Southern Railroad Billboard, ex-SFS 02, Cerrillos Road |
| 1441 | Walsenburg | CO | STD | Next to C&S Depot downtown Walsenburg, Colo. |
| 1444 | Santa Fe | NM | STD | as Santa Fe Southern 01 |
| 1447 | Denver | CO | STD | UP Burnham Yard, Denver. Donated & moved to Forney Museum in Denver, along w/ DRGW GP-30 3006 by UP Feb. 2018 |
| 1448 | Hot Sulpur Springs | CO | STD | Pioneer Village Museum (Grand County Hist. Society), was the Ski Train information caboose from Winter Park, Colorado |
| 1457 | Ogden | UT | STD | Utah State Railroad Museum, Ogden Union Station |
| 1459 | Roseville? | CA | STD | private, edge of town?, LOCATION? |
| 1461 | Eagle | CO | STD | Eagle County Historical Society, Repainted (07/04/2023) |
| 1465 | Denver | CO | STD | ANSCO, Union Pacific Burnham Yard |
| 1466 | Weld County | CO | STD | as SP 01466, painted for layout on Anschutz Eagle Ranch, Hardin/Can |
| 1468 | Citrus Height | CA | STD | Jim Dobbas Equipment & Scrap, 7920 Antelope Road, SOLD? |
| 1469 | Tuscon | AZ | STD | Arizona Railway Museum, Erie and Delaware Streets, 602-821-1108 STD |
| 1477 | Weld County | CO | STD | as SSW 01477, painted for layout on Anschutz Eagle Ranch, Hardin/Ca |
| 1480 | Train Mountain | OR | STD | Sold to short line operator Modoc Northern, sometime in 2006, 2009 stored on UP siding Tule Lake, CA until 2020 after short line ceased operations, sold to private owner and moved to property near Train Mountain, Oregon. Picture on trailer before move in 2020 |
| 1481 | Cheyenne | WY | STD | as DODX 01481, steel, cupola, US Navy, Alliant Technical Systems, Stored in Cheyenne, WY. with UP Steam in 2005 (updated 3-2020) |
| 1482 | Lompac | CA | STD | Assigned to SP Railroad Police (painted white), still owned by UP and is currently stored out of service on the UP's Lompoc Branch in Lompoc, California. It has been stored there since 2014 (updated 3-2021) |
| 1483 | Payton | CO | STD | As DODX 01483, steel, cupola, US Navy, Alliant Technical Systems, Stored in Cheyenne with UP Steam until sold to Dave Varilek in 2006 and moved his private property to Fremont, Neb. in 3-2020. Purchased by Patrick Jaeger and moved to Peyton (06-2022) |
| 1484 | Galisteo | NM | STD | as Santa Fe Southern 04, from Lamy, LOCATION? |
| 1486 | Cheyenne | WY | STD | as DODX 01486, steel, cupola, US Navy, Alliant Technical Systems, Stored in Cheyenne, WY. with UP Steam in 2005 (updated 3-2020) |
| 1488 | Santa Fe | NM | STD | ex-Santa Fe Southern 03, Depot, from Lamy |
| 1489 | Pueblo | CO | STD | in local service, Union Pacific Yard |
| 1490 | Phippsburg | CO | STD | as DODX 01490, steel, cupola, US Navy, Alliant Technical Systems, Moved to Phippsburg, CO., Location? (updated 3-2020) |
| 1490 | Dillsboro | NC | STD | actually N&W 518690, Great Smoky Mountains Railway, POB 397, 28725, |
| 1501 | Colorado Springs | CO | STD | as RGEX 01501 stored on siding, in Strasburg, Colo., Sold to Trolley Museum in Colorado Springs |
| 1502 | Steamboat Springs | CO | STD | Displayed next to Steamboat Springs old Depot |
| 1503 | Heber Valley | UT | STD | Restored by members of the Promontory Chapter of the NRHS and moved to Heber Valley Railroad in (09-2021) |
| 1504 | Ogden | UT | STD | Utah State Railroad Museum, Ogden Union Station |
| 1505 | Chandler | AZ | STD | as RGEX 01505, owned by Dan Quiat & stored on siding Strasburg Co, sold in 2001 to a hobby shop owner in Arizona City, Arizona, In 2005 purchased by a private owner in Casa Grande, Arizona, in 2007 moved to Arizona Railway Museum and donated to museum in 2022 |
| 1508 | Salem | UT | STD | 500 East 800 South, with SP 1933 & SSW 72 cabooses |
| 1510 | Bonsal | NC | STD | Was at Union Depot in Pueblo, Dean Sedinger was the owner, when he passed sold to Carolina Power (as CPRX 10009) and light and used as an escort for trains hauling nuclear materials for the Harris Nuclear Plant. recently donated to the North Carolina Railway Museum (07/2023) |
| 1511 | Durango | CO | STD | actually ATSF 999250, Home, 578 Animas View Dr., along D&SNG, w/2nd |
| 1513 | Colorado Spgs | CO | STD | in local service, Union Pacific Yard |
| 1516 | Pueblo | CO | STD | Canon City & Royal Gorge Railroad, GOING TO Canon City? |
| 1521 | Denver | CO | STD | Denver & Intermountain Railroad, Denver & Rock Island Railroad, 474 |
| 1522 | Pueblo | CO | STD | in local service, Union Pacific Yard |
| 1523 | Clovis | CA | STD | as C&S 01523, Randy Johnson, LOCATION? |
| 1524 | Phippsburg | CO | STD | in local service, Union Pacific Yard |
| 4343 | Weld County | CO | NG | Anschutz Eagle Ranch, Hardin/Canton area? |
| 4982 | Chama | NM | STD | wood, no cupola, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, POB 789, 87520, |
| 4990 | Boulder | CO | NG | Part of display in Central Park, Broadway & Canyon Blvd, w/C&N Rwy 30 loco & D&RGW Caboose. Display was dismantled in 2013 due to an attempt to burn down the caboose, which was later restored by Jason Midette. The locomotive and the passenger car, and the work caboose are at the Colorado Railroad Museum. Some sources say on loan and others say donated (updated 8-2020) |
| 014238? | Westcliffe | CO | STD | wood, cupola, no trucks, blt from boxcar, Seifert's/Norup Gas, 6016 |
| ? | Alamosa River | CO | STD | Cabin, LOCATION? |
| ? | Colorado Spgs | CO | STD | Jones, n. of Woodmen Dr., north off east end of Westwood Drive |
Reference:
- Eager, Jim, 1996, Rio Grande Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment; Edison, NJ, Morning Sun Books, 128 pages.
- Maxwell, John W., & Hubbard, J. L., 1987, Narrow Gauge Pictorial, Vol. 5: Cabooses of the D&RGW: unknown, 160 pages.
- Sloan, Robert E., 1979, D&RG and D&RGW Caboose: Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette, Vol. 5, No. 2, May/June, pages. 28
Comments(2)
RGM&HS Webmaster says:
July 3, 2023 at 9:47 amJohn Tudek mentioned that the Eagle County Historical Society has about completed their repainting of the 01461. Cost was about $5,255 with $534 of that for the polyurethane paint alone. They contracted with a local professional company to handle it as it was pretty much beyond the volunteers. Shown are the scans are before and after repainting.
RGM&HS Webmaster says:
July 25, 2023 at 9:02 amJerry Day reported recently caboose 01416 that was on display for years at Caboose Hobby Shop in Lakewood is now on display alongside the highway at Carbondale. It is on private property and fenced in.