D&RGW gon detail photos

These photos were taken in the early 1990's in Chama, New Mexico. Some of these photos can actually be used as scale drawings. The black and white painted carpenter's square in the photos has the black and white changing on the one foot marks. On the long end of the square, the black and white stripes are both one inch wide. On the short end of the square, the inside white stripe is 1/2" and the outside black strip is one inch.

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These are under body shots of the drop bottom gon's doors (700's and 800's)

This picture is supposed to show the queen post details on a drop bottom gon. When I get my software straightened out, I'll try to modify this picture to bring out the details better.

Here is another style of stake "pocket" the D&RGW used.

When a standard gon was converted for pipe service, the ends were removed and the brake wheel was moved to the side. Since the car was 30' long and the pipe was 40-50' long, nothing on the ends of the car could be tolerated. This is the lower brake wheel support for a pipe gon modified from a standard gon.

Here is the "upper" brake wheel support for the same car - on the deck of the gon.

Here is a detail of the sides of a gon when rods were used to keep the sides in place. This might be only on the pipe gons but I do not know for sure.

The following photo's were taken in 1996.

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