Feeding Our Furnaces: D&RGW Narrow Gauge Gondolas - Big Train Tours - Colorado Railroad Museum!

Welcome to another Big Train Tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This month, we’ll be taking a look at a freight car type known as a gondola. Built to transport heavy, bulk commodities such as mineral ores and coal, gondolas served on the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s narrow gauge system pretty much from its late 19th century beginnings until the very end in the 1960s.
Today, these early 20th century artifacts are proudly displayed at the Museum, representing the railroad’s role in helping to transport Colorado’s coal, feed its steel blast furnaces, and build early natural gas pipelines serving the Southwest.
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[@jacksharkey2010]

WOW This commentator is par-excellent! No wonder they chose him for this! Thkx Brother FANTASTIC JOB!

[@joshuacotton6436]

Great video, I model Great Northern in Montana and get lots of good info from this channel

[@davidkaralus7464]

Well done!

[@chriskodani2543]

This us easily the most informative video on narrow gauge gondolas that I’ve ever seen. Beautiful work! Thank you so much for sharing it!

[@FuelFire]

Sir, I have to say, this video is very informative and interesting to watch. I'm a german myself and I love watching videos about railroads and trains of the american midwest.

[@Wilett614]

Excellent Story and Narration ! Well done ....And very appreciated !! Hope to see more of this type of Info on D&RGW Narrow Gauge lines ! Thanks

[@billgrierson840]

These presentations are just excellent. Thank you for doing them!!!

[@samkunugi5319]

This was very interesting! Amazing the history attached to one type of car.

[@MrGassRight]

Love these videos, keep it up!

[@ironhorsethrottlemaster5202]

Very awesome documentary I never knew how much Narrow Gauge actually existed in Colorado and Utah and New Mexico I live in Utah I remember seeing Rio Grande diesels when I was a kid I always love the Rio Grande and their narrow gauges particularly interesting I've seen more archive footage in this one video that I've ever seen of the Denver and Rio Grande Western very cool

[@johne.worsham8608]

You mentioned that the Denver and Rio Grande and the Denver and Rio Grande Western ways used gondolas to haul iron, ore, steel and pipes... So when did the term change to being called coal hoppers? I've grown up calling the coal cars hoppers and the raised flats as gondolas. I'm confused here. My model train cars are even labeled as gondolas and hoppers, which is why I ask when was the term changed? Or is that just an oversight?

[@richardjayroe8922]

Fun fact: being coupled in between trains still happens but with conductors instead

[@eddieafterburner]

Quite an interesting interpretation of “fun”

[@sjwhitney]

Perhaps pronunciation is different in the west than in the east. Gondola in the eastern railroads is pronounced gon-DOH-la (long O sound like Homer Simpson saying it).

[@joenewstead4848]

So what happend to C,F&I? Are the company still around or is everything gone

[@jamesbuckner4791]

Probably desolved and broken up due to us law and regulations against monopolies.

[@royreynolds108]

Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990 and taken over by Crane Corp. in 1993. Look up the info by typing in CF&I.

[@gregorylong698]

CF&I is alive and well. Now known as Evraz N.A.