Photograph of D&RGW 168 — Photograph by JAKeeran, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rio Grande Engine No. 168

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Denver and Rio Grande Western 168 is a T-12 class 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" type narrow-gauge steam locomotive. It is one of twelve similar locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in 1883.”
Wikipedia article Rio Grande 168, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Conejos County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5234 B Hwy US 285, Antonito, 80903
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 79000601 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antonito, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2014	Hail	Antonito	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Antonito	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Antonito	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conejos County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conejos County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.