Rio Grande GP30 3008 and GP30 3010. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.
DRGW K-36 #487 lifts a photo freight up the 4% grade of Cumbres Pass. Watching a steam train climb the steep grade on a crisp morning is one of the most spectacular railfan events a person can ex... (more)
One of last surviving Rio Grande intermodal truck trailers sits in a field near downtown Strasburg, Colorado. This 45 foot Fruehauf trailer was built in 1983. This trailer was one of the first 45 ... (more)
Golden Hour at Ferguson's. The sagebrush are still casting very long shadows as DRGW Mudhen #453 charges upgrade from Ferguson's Trestle, on the westbound run to Chama via Cumbres Pass.
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Sunrise at Ferguson's. DRGW K-27 Mudhen #453 steps across Ferguson's Trestle at MP 285.87, just moments after sunrise, hauling a freight westbound toward Chama and Durango, via Cumbres Pass... (more)
Saw this train - and its unusual power - out my office window in downtown Auburn, but could not leave work (and could not have overtaken 145, anyway), so called my wife, who was at our home right ... (more)
Running on rights granted as part of the UP/MP merger, a D&RGW train from Kansas City is westbound on UP's former Missouri Pacific Pueblo line. This traffic would grow substantially in following ... (more)
Rio Grande GP9 5953 westbound local at Alamosa, Colorado. Unknown photo from my collection.
So who else (at least 7 others) was there this Jan 8, 1984 day as DRGW 5771 leads the Ski Train between Clay and Plainview, about to enter Tunnel 1.
With early morning light, DRGW 5357 leads eastbound train #742 at Clay, CO, on Feb 4, 1984.
DRGW 5336 leads westbound freight #187 at Tunnel 1, between Clay and Plainview, CO, on Feb 4, 1984.
Pooled with Union Pacific four Rio Grande tunnel motors 5394, 5351, 5346 and 5341 are heading west with a Kaiser coal train destined for Southern California.
DRGW 5364 leads eastbound train #100 at Plainview, CO, on Jan 7, 1984.
DRGW 5771 leads westbound train #118 at Rollinsville, CO, on Mar 26, 1983.
Rio Grande SD40T-2 5363 eastbound near Crescent, Colorado with the Gross Dam Reservoir in the distance.
