D&RGW No. 318 was the product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia and completed in January of 1896. It is a C-18 consolidation locomotive sporting the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement of that class. Its life started on the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad. The Rio Grande purchased the engine in 1917 for $2000 and assigned it the number of 428. It was later renumbered 318 and spent much of its Rio Grande life plying passenger and freight trains out of Sal
