my ESPEE MODELERS ARCHIVE

California's Railroad to the U.S. 1861 - 1996

D&RGW
SW1000

140 - 149

10 units delivered

DRGW bought 10 SW1000's for use as switchers and in local service, the first 7 delivered late 1966 the second 3 delivered early 1968.

Used mostly in Denver for switching and local work.

Models:

N Scale:

• ?

HO Scale:

• Athearn

O Scale:

• ?

Prototype References:

• SP.....into the '90's by Joe.W.Shine, Pages 138 - 141. Has photo's of these units.
• 1995 Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual by Bill Shippen.
• Southern Pacific Rails - a motive power finale by Peter Limas has a number of images and data concerning DRGW GP30's.