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D&RGW 346 took a cross-state adventure down to Durango, here's some thoughts about it!

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[jackrigdon]

She's just been moved into the new contract work shop! By the way, it was a pleasure meeting you Mark!

[davidwhiting]

If I may...

346: (gets shunted into the house)

340: (wakes up; looks over drowsily, sees 346 and jolts awake) "Oh Lord! Oh Palmer help me! It's a ghost! They've finally come to get me!"

Some other engine off in another part of the house out of shot: "Good grief 340! It's just 346! Y'know, old classmate of yours? Used to work here? You do the same thing whenever another loco gets put in here for a rebuild! They're not ghosts trying to drag you to the beyond for cryin' out loud!"

340: "Oh. 346, eh? Let me get a look at 'cha..." (Looks over 346 inquisitively; 346 stares back awkwardly) "Lawdy you've looked better."

346: "Good to see you, too..."

340: "What'd they do? Drag you out of the scrap line?"

346: "No! Despite my appearance I'm actually being taken care of very well. I'm actually here for..."

340: (Interrupts) "You're not even dressed!"

346: (Taken aback) "...what?"

340: "You're not wearing your boiler jacket! What're doing out and about with your bare boiler showing? You're not decent! How can you stand to be like that? And where's your stack?"

346: (Just stares back at 340) "...aren't you here for a rebuild too?"

Another engine in another part of the house: "You've gotta forgive 340. She's not really a morning person. Takes her a bit to warm up and get her head straight after she wakes up."

340: "Who's that?!"

Same engine: "42!"

340: "Oh...yeah. Say, where's 41?"

42: "Already left and went home to Knott's Berry Farm."

340: "Oh yeah, " (340 and 346 look at each other. Awkward silence descends.) "...so...how's it going?"

346: "I work at a museum now. Nice folks there. Even got a loop of track for me to run around when I'm in shape. I'm here for a rebuild. I presume you're here for that as well?"

340: "Yep." (Awkward silence)

346: "...so, you gonna tell me what you've been doing or..."

340: (Falls asleep again)

346: "...it's gonna be a rebuild..."

[shimesu]

340 & 346: YOU!

I picture them being all "I'm so happy to see you!" and then once the humans are gone being all "I remember why I never liked you that much.... but I still love you for some reason."

[_Chevy_Z]

1:34 it's called an RGN ( Removable Gooseneck), or simply a lowboy. Handy for moving large equipment as you can see

[andrewframe]

"when you've got a big payload behind you" Can't wait to see what the ytp folks do with that line.

[Big_Diehl]

Can you imagine if they put 42, 340, and the 346 all in the roundhouse sticking out of their stalls together and take a photo? Can you imagine ?!? 😂

[OfficialDenverRioGrandeWestern]

I swear D&S is becoming the Strasberg of the Narrow gauge world 😂 and it’s it only me or does it look like 493’s cab is at a angle

[genevarailfan]

493 is a special engine for me too. My wife and I rode behind it on our honeymoon (my first time in Durango) just after it was restored.

[Skylarq.]

That would be a lowboy trailer I believe a very interesting trailer but very common for transporting larger vehicles such as excavators or bulldozers and such.

[crazyjack]

*340* What the heel I thought you rolled off the mountain!!, and God you reek

*346* yeah I did, oh and that smell is Kenosha

[icastromusic]

Working at Knott's a few years ago, I can certainly confirm locomotives have personalities! 41 and 340 definitely have opposing personalities. 41 was always reliable, and would rarely ever give you a hard time. 340 was definitely the stubborn locomotive, lot's of folks did not like firing her. Although, I will admit she was always my favorite of the 2 C19s to operate! I am excited to see the results that D&S will do on 340 (and 346)!

[ayayaybamba]

This video should serve as the petition to rebuild the line connecting the D&S and the CRM.

[LoPhatKao]

i'd like to imagine 340 & 346 did the pointing Spiderman meme

[CK-dtnx]

I used to do oversized and used those trailers. I always called it a removable gooseneck. Right or not, that's what I've always called them.

[YourLocalRailfan]

I love how detailed this is so now I can transport 346 if need be

[drewbarker]

A long overdue homecoming of sorts. In the meantime, it’s a fantastic chance for the D&S to have a living exhibit on something the public doesn’t get to see that often. (And additionally, it’s really neat to see a Big K “out of captivity” undulating along doing what it was meant to do.)

[ColtonRMagby]

Lowboy trailer, oversize permits, heavy haul truck, plenty of money, and a GPS that takes the dimensions of the rig into account when relaying the route. That's all you really need. Everything else gets sorted out as needed.

[bluescrew]

Even though you weren’t facing the camera, we could see your happy face watching 493 roll by

[therailfanman]

2:26 glad to see someone besides the B&O railroad museum using 2101. Good to see her moving about

[Rocker-]

the larger locomotive moves are something truely special. ive seen pics of them moving bigboy and some other larger standard guage stuff where theyve had to upgrade to modular trailers, multiple trucks, the whole 9 special transport yards per say lol. its rare you get to see stuff like that tho (cause well its standard guage, just throw it behind a train 90% of the time) plus not alot of stuff truely warrants that treatment but its truely a spectacle when it does happen

on a side note tho, thats lowkey cool af that the D&S put her on display while shes there and what not, its not every day the publics get to seem much that goes into rebuilds and what not