Locomotive Classes
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Mining
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General History
100

This class of engine was built mostly brand new by the D&RGW Burnham Shops in Denver.

What are the Class K-37s?

100

The Silverton Branch was completed is this year.

What is 1882?

100

This mine is located at 479.5 on the Silverton Branch.

What is the Bitter Root Mine?

100

This derailment temporarily put D&SNG K-37 #493 out of service.

What is the derailment of the Polar Express on November 29, 2024?

100

This town rejected a depot from the D&RG's Silverton Branch?

What is Animas City?

200

The D&RGW Class K-28s were given this nickname.

What are the Sports Models?

200

This RGS branch terminated at Pandora, Colorado.

What is the Telluride Branch?

200

This coal mine was located in Horse Gulch next to Durango.

What is the City Mine?

200

This locomotive derailed south of Needleton Siding due to a sun kink in the rails.

What is D&RGW K-28 #473?

200

The D&RG Silverton Branch was completed in which year?

What is 1882?

300
RGS 42 is last surviving locomotive of this class.

What are the Class C-17s?

300

The incomplete Eureka Branch of the Silverton Railroad was later reorganized into this railroad.

What is the Silverton Northern Railroad?

300

This mine was later sold to ASARCO, whose owner's son perished during the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.

What is the Silver Lake Mine?

300

This locomotive derailed due to lost air while going down Dallas Divide on the RGS?

What is RGS K-27 #455?

300

The rails between Durango and Chama were pulled up in this year.

What is 1971?

400

How many class C-16 engines currently survive?

What is three?

400

The Animas Forks Branch of the Silverton Northern Railroad was planned to extend to which city?

What is Lake City?

400

This mine would cause Lake Emma to collapse into it in 1978.

What is the Sunnyside Mine?

400

This RGS locomotive was chosen to be repaired over C-19 #40 after they both derailed?

What is RGS T-19 #20?

400

This railroad was the only short line in Silverton not owned built by Otto Mears.

What is the Silverton, Gladstone, and Northerly Railroad?

500

This is the original classification of the Class K-27s prior to the reorganization of the D&RGW in 1924?

What are the Class 125s?

500

The Silverton Branch was part of this division on the D&RGW?

What is the 4th Division?

500

The Waldheim Mansion was owned by which mining operation?

What is the Silver Lake Mine?

500

The derailment of engines #483 and #494 banned this practice on the D&RGW on September 26, 1958.

What is doubleheading down grade?

500

The Animas Forks Branch of the Silverton Northern Railroad was completed in this year.

What is 1904?