This 40' Oustside Braced Wood Box Car with Single Door is painted brown with white Moffat Tunnel logo and white lettering.  In 1931, the D&RGW acquired the Denver & Salt Lake Western Railroad, a subsidiary of the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad which had acquired the rights to build a 40 - mile connection between the two railroads.  After years of negotiations the D&RGW gained trackage rights on the D&SL from Denver to the new cutoff.  In 1932, the D&RGW began construction of the Dotsero Cutoff east of Glenwood Springs on the Colorado River.  Construction was completed in 1934, giving Denver a direct transcontinental link to the west.  In 1947, the D&RGW merged with the D&SL, gaining control of the "Moffat Road" through the "Moffat Tunnel".