Running into Pando siding to pick up a single car, grimy 5396 3002 and 3023 are illuminated by the low evening sun on the way up to Tennessee Pass in May 1981. Remains of part of the extensive for... (more)

As the Colorado River meanders along the bottom of the valley, a westbound empty coal, behind 5514 5508 and 5511, snakes its way from Azure siding to Little Gore Canyon, west of Kremmling, in Sept... (more)

Consecutively numbered 3115 and 3114 receive attention inside the hallowed walls of the DRGW Burnham Works in Denver in September 1981. 3115 was scrapped in 1992 after a wreck at Cliff the previou... (more)

A rather clean 5379 leading 3041 and 5322 whine to a stand in Minturn Yard to await the attachment of helpers for the run to Tennessee Pass in September 1981, while strange bed-fellows CN 9600 and... (more)

DRGW 3100 sits at Minturn in between helper duties to Tennessee Pass in June 1981 - this locomotive still wears this livery today, patched as UP 1350.

Playing Rear Admiral in the Silver Sky of the westbound RGZ as it rolls along following the Colorado River between Bond and Dell, on the Dotsero cut-off, in October 1981

Now, if they all looked like this is service! An immaculate 5399 soaks up the atmosphere at the Denver Union Terminal Centennial celebrations in July 1981. Taken from the long end due to the endle... (more)

Eastbound DRGW freight behind 5396 3002 and 3023 try unsuccessfully to race an Allied Van Lines truck on the adjacent I70 on the approach to Avon in May 1981.

The late afternoon sun reflects in the Eagle River and backlights the exhaust of an eastbound freight as 5396 3002 and 3023 climbs through the east switch of Belden Siding at Red Cliff on the way ... (more)

In perfect evening light and with shadows starting to lengthen, 5401 and 5355 run out of the foothills at Spanish Fork, heading down towards Provo, after conquering Solder Summit in August 1985. H... (more)

Eastbound #790 coal swing helpers come into view as 3090 3112 3085 and 3100 snake their way up through the snow of the Mitchell curves in February 1982.

An eastbound slag train heads out of Woodside behind 5413 3101 and 3118 having followed #18 Rio Grande Zephyr out of Helper, in March 1982.

With one mountain climb completed, its time for eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr to stretch the legs across the Utah Desert - the chase from Narrows is over and this shot at Woodside is the last before... (more)

The surrounding snow having lost its freshness, 5411 3055 3110 and 3099 takes the main at Winter Park siding with eastbound #100, on the last couple of hundred yards of climb before the Moffat Tun... (more)

Assumed to be a crew member, the lady on the footplate of 133 at Roper Yard in October 1981 seems unconcerned that her picture was being taken!