RailPictures.Net Photo: DRGW X-450 Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Scale Test Car at South Salt Lake, Utah by James Belmont

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» Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (more..)
» Scale Test Car (more..)

» Roper Yard, D&RGW Subdivision 6
» South Salt Lake, Utah, USA (more..)
» September 08, 1984

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» James Belmont (more..)
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Rio Grande Scale Test car X-450 was used to calibrate track scales throughout the D&RGW system. Buillt by Southwark-Baldwin in Feb. 1945, it continues to serve even today on the Union Pacific Railroad some 68 years after construction!

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