10-12-2011, 12:48 PM
I think the question was about the D&RGW narrow gauge in the late 1920s. The turntables I'm aware of at that time were at Durango, Gunnison, Salida, Alamosa, Ouray, Marshall Pass, and Embudo. There was one more at Ridgway on the RGS, which for part of that time was opereated as a division of the D&RGW. The one at Chama had been removed by then, I think. Terminals at Farmington, Silverton, Pagosa Springs, Monarch, Montrose, Lake City, Villa Grove, Baldwin, Crested Butte, and Santa Fe had wyes. Floresta had a turntable that had been taken out of service, and locos ran in reverse from the terminal there. Same goes for important midpoints at Cumbres, Sargents, Cimarron, Cerro Summit, and Sapinero. Same goes for Telluride, Rico, Dolores, and Pandora on the RGS. Some of these points had turntables earlier, but not by the late 1920s, since the D&RGW had been replacing 2-8-0s with larger 2-8-2s that didn't fit. Turntables are expensive. Land is cheap. Wyes are cheap. I believe my post was accurate -- and it goes just as much for other narrow gauges, which were intended to be cheap.