Prospector (Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad train)

The Prospector was an overnight passenger train of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad between Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. It had two lives. The first, from November 1941 to July 1942, used a pair of streamlined stainless steel diesel multiple unit trainsets built by the Budd Company and numbered M-1 and M-2, which were unreliable on the mountain grades and were returned to Budd and scrapped. The railroad restored the name in 1945 with conventional locomotive-hauled equipment, later lightweight cars, and ran it until the final trips on May 28, 1967. Only the 1941 trainsets belong to Budd; the postwar train mostly used cars from Pullman-Standard.