Union Pacific’s West Local crosses over Colo. Highway 72 just west of Leyden, Colorado, on January 27, 1998. Leading the train is venerable Rio Grande GP30 No. 3003.
Rio Grande and Southern Pacific ordered six 4000 HP diesel-hydraulic prototype units from Krauss-Maffei of Germany. Three Rio Grande #4001-4003 and three SP #9000-9002. Rio Grande kept them for ... (more)
Rio Grande EMD GP30 No. 3003 and GP40-2 No. 3100 are on a work extra dumping ballast west of Leyden, Colorado, on February 12, 1999. A company front-end loader piles it along the right-of-way so t... (more)
In a panned photograph, Wisconsin and Southern E9 No. 10C flies through Leyden, Colorado, eastbound on a special west coast passenger train now headed back home on October 2, 1998.