The 30' stock cars of the D&RGW went through several lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. These decal sets cover the lettering schemes of the last two major rebuilds in 1926 and 1945.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1926 or 1945 lettering scheme:

The 34' stock cars of the D&RGW were built between 1923 and 1924 and went through several lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. Many fo these different schemes survived until the cars were scrapped in 1955 with some minor changes. These decal sets cover the two most common lettering schemes, along with several minor variations in lettering.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1923 or 1939 lettering scheme:

The 3000 series 30' box cars of the D&RGW went through several lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. These decal sets cover the last two schemes as shown here.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1926 or 1939 lettering scheme:

The high side gondolas of the D&RGW went through several rebuilding and lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. These decal sets cover the last two lettering schemes as shown here. They also include the minor lettering variations for the pipe gons as well.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1926 or 1939 lettering scheme:

The drop bottom gondolas of the D&RGW went through several rebuilding and lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. These decal sets cover the last two major lettering schemes as shown here for both the 700 and 800 series cars.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1926 or 1939 lettering scheme:

The 30' refrigerator cars of the D&RGW went through several lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. These decal sets cover the last two schemes as shown here. These sets also include paint stars and repack dates in both black and white lettering; black rectangles are also included to be used as backgrounds for the repack dates in white.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1926 or 1939 lettering scheme:

The 40' refrigerator cars of the D&RGW went through several lettering schemes while in use on the railroad. These decal sets cover the last two schemes as shown here. These sets also include paint stars and repack dates in both black and white lettering; black rectangles are also included to be used as backgrounds for the repack dates in white.

The following decal sets will letter one car in either the 1926 or 1939 lettering scheme:

One hundred 30' wooden flat cars were built built by the D&RG in the mid-1880s and were numbered from 6000 to 6099. However, the railroad soon required cars with greater capacity and these cars were replaced with heavier capacity cars as needed. Most of these cars were scrapped or sold, but a few were converted into Maintenance of Way service and survived to the end of service. None of these cars remained in revenue service by the end of World War II. This decal set covers the paint and lettering scheme for these cars from the time of the creation of the D&RGW, in 1921, until their end of revenue service, around 1944.

The following decal sets will letter one 6000 series 30' wooden flat car as they were painted in service on the D&RGW:

The 6500 Series flat cars were created by the D&RGW in the late thirties by converting standard gauge gondolas. Two of this group of flat cars were converted with bulkheads in the fifties for transporting wallboard during the Farmington oil boom.

The following decal sets will letter one car:

This highly accurate decal set will letter one short or long caboose in any of the D&RGW's paint schemes. This includes all the different heralds and letter board lettering used, as well as the block numbers used in the 1920's.

The following decal sets will letter one short or long caboose in either the 1926 or 1939 paint schemes:

This decal set is intended to cover D&RGW Maintenance of Way equipment for which model kits are readily available, but otherwise cannot be fitted into a general category of M.O.W. equipment; specifically, the ex-600 series flat cars that were converted to M.O.W. service, 06051, 06084, and 06092. While we normally design our decal sets to cover all the lettering schemes of a car over its' life on a railroad, with only one exception, we were unable to find any pictures of these cars in any paint scheme other than the post-1939, gray with black lettering/flying herald paint scheme. This set covers this last lettering scheme. Those interested in modeling these cars in the earlier paint scheme (red paint with white lettering) can use our 6000 series flat car decal set and make an educated guess as to the actual lettering used on the car.

The following decal sets will letter one of these cars in the flying herald paint scheme:

This decal set is designed for the 1930-1951 time period, but can be used for most cars back to 1912 or earlier. The car names included are only for the cars existing in the 1930s, and the express markings are only for 1918 and later.

Lettering was always gold until the cars were painted yellow. At different times, Gold Leaf and Imitation Gold paint were used. The use of gold striping was discontinued in 1912. The actual lettering styles and layouts for the 1870 to 1912 period are hard to determine from photos because the photo emulsions in those days did not register the lettering on the red cars. One photo labeled as taken in 1886 does show "Denver & Rio Grande" on the letterboard in the same style as these decals.

The following decal sets will letter 4 to 7 passenger cars depending on the types of cars being lettered*.