** NO KEY INCLUDED **

Up for sale is a solid brass railroad lock for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. This is a super rare pancake lock in nice condition. The D&RG Rwy Co CAR LOCK is embossed on the face with a pebbled background. The brass has great patina and the lock is in nice all around condition. The shackle has spring tension and the teeth inside the key hole appear to be ok. We do not have a key to test the lock but it looks like it's working. This is a tough pancake padlock to find for a popular narrow gauge rail line. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad ( reporting mark DRGW ), often shortened to Rio Grande , D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad , was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver , Colorado , in 1870. It served mainly as a transcontinental bridge line between Denver, and Salt Lake City , Utah . The Rio Grande was also a major origin of coal and mineral traffic. The Rio Grande was the epitome of mountain railroading, with a motto of Through the Rockies, not around them and later Main line through the Rockies , both referring to the Rocky Mountains . The D&RGW operated the highest mainline rail line in the United States , over the 10,240 feet (3,120 m) Tennessee Pass in Colorado, and the famed routes through the Moffat Tunnel and the Royal Gorge . At its height in the mid-1880s, the D&RGW had the largest narrow-gauge railroad network in North America with 2,783 miles (4,479 km) of track interconnecting the states of Colorado, New Mexico , and Utah. [1] Known for its independence, the D&RGW operated the Rio Grande Zephyr until its discontinuation in 1983. This was the last private intercity passenger train in the United States until Brightline (formerly Virgin Trains USA ) began service in Florida in 2018.