{"id":15149,"date":"2025-12-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/and-the-west-is-history-drgw-bumblebee-engine-no-268-1952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:33:23","slug":"and-the-west-is-history-drgw-bumblebee-engine-no-268-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/and-the-west-is-history-drgw-bumblebee-engine-no-268-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"And the West is History: D&amp;RGW \u2018Bumblebee\u2019 Engine No. 268 \u2013 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f9008d6a-cbd6-56b3-9760-d7bc2e61ed82&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1728\" height=\"1042\" alt=\"Built in 1882, Denver &amp; Rio Grande Western locomotive 268 arrived at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair with an unusual Aspen Gold paint scheme. The engine later starred as \u201cCinder-Ella\u201d in the 1952 Denver &amp; Rio Grande movie, filmed on the Silverton line. It returned to active service on the narrow-gauge line between Gunnison and Salida, featuring the distinctive bumblebee paint scheme until its retirement in 1955. Locomotive 268 is now on static display at the Gunnison Pioneer Museum. \u2013 Ed Horvat for Animas Museum, edhorvat@animasmuseum (Catalog Number: 16.15.7 from the La Plata County Historical Society Photo Collections)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Built in 1882, Denver &amp; Rio Grande Western locomotive 268 arrived at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair with an unusual Aspen Gold paint scheme. The engine later starred as \u201cCinder-Ella\u201d in the 1952 Denver &amp; Rio Grande movie, filmed on the Silverton line. It returned to active service on the narrow-gauge line between Gunnison and Salida, featuring the distinctive bumblebee paint scheme until its retirement in 1955. Locomotive 268 is now on static display at the Gunnison Pioneer Museum. \u2013 Ed Horvat for Animas Museum, edhorvat@animasmuseum (Catalog Number: 16.15.7 from the La Plata County Historical Society Photo Collections)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">ANIMAS MUSEUM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in 1882, Denver &amp; Rio Grande Western locomotive 268 arrived at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair with an unusual Aspen Gold paint scheme. The engine later starred as \u201cCinder-Ella\u201d in the 1952 Denver &amp; Rio Grande movie, filmed on the Silverton line. It returned to active service on the narrow-gauge line between Gunnison and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19506,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions\/19506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}