Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific locomotives rest beneath the large grain elevator at Kansas City Southern’s Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. Rio Grande utilized the KCS... (more)
Orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5356 lines up with a trio of MILW GP40s now under Soo Line ownership. T... (more)
West of Rollinsville, Colo., six SD motors of D&RGW usher Train 707, empty coal hoppers, back to mines on Oct. 10, 1986.
In 1997 one of the remaining holdouts for Rio Grande power was on the Ute Shuttle. This train ran from the power plant at Ute to the mine at Axial and return sometimes twice a day and occasionally... (more)
An eastbound coal train, behind 5356 5381 5347 5351 and 5375, begins slowing for a stop at Tabernash to attach helper units 3125 and 3123 for the run up to Winter Park and the Moffat Tunnel in Jan... (more)
An eastbound coal is dragged slowly upgrade through Fraser siding behind a quintet of Tunnel Motors, 5356 5381 5347 5351 5375, with 3123 and 3125 pushing in the rear, on a very cold and snowy Janu... (more)
5356 3021 3064 3071 and eastbound #48 departs Belden siding on the approach to Red CLiff on the climb to Tennessee Pass from Minturn. Out of sight helpers were 3128 3110 3016 3099 3073 3124 3113.
Only a couple of years old at the time.
