Dodge City, Montezuma & Trinidad RR

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I’m looking for information on the Dodge City, Montezuma & Trinidad RR, especially pertaining to rolling stock or motive power. Anyone info will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Alex

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Alex, I know all three locations you mention but I did not know a railroad had that name. Are you sure you have the correct name??

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This website, about halfway down, mentions it existed for about 5 years around 1890.

http://www.atsfrr.com/resources/burton/Colmor.htm

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Thanks, Dale! That’s very helpful.

“Diningcar” - I’m almost positive I have the name right. This railroad was built in the late 1800’s and didn’t last long.

Alex

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IIRC, Rock Island wound up with it in the end after discretely bankrolling it and watching it fail badly …The upper 3+ miles of the CV District (now shortline Cimmarron Valley RR) was joint ATSF/CRIP until they got across the Arkansas River Bridge and then split. Rock Island had a spiderweb of proposed lines in SW Kansas that never got built. Once south of the Arkansas ATSF/DC&CV and CRIP/DCM&T/Arkansas Kansas & Colorado RR(1887-1888) were headed in the same general direction with CRIP slightly west of ATSF. After this failed, the line from Liberal to Hugoton to Richfield to Casteneda/Ramsey and on to Trinidad was still trying to happen with Rock Island. (Richfield saw lots of surveyors from two railroads but never saw track. There also was to be a line from Dodge City wandering off to the NW, but CB&Q and MoP got into that country first.)

By the time the DC&CV/Cimmarron Cutoff project happened in 1913, DCM&T was long gone. Diningcar might know the story better. I suspect there was not much, if any, rolling stock.Probably all secondhand.

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Thanks. This is all very helpful!

Alex