Tom Golden photo.

An ex-Rio Grande tunnel motor on the Union Pacific Cascade Subdivision rolls tonnage at sunset, both literally and figuratively.

On a perfect October afternoon in Castle Valley, the MDVRO rolls east with 73 cars on Oct. 10, 1999. The power consist includes DRGW SD40T-2 No. 5397, SP SD40M-2 No. 8594, UP SD60 No. 6036, and DR... (more)

Nearing the end of its descent from Soldier Summit, an eastbound Rio Grande mixed freight passes Utah Railway Junction as it approaches Helper. The diverging line is, of course, the Utah Railway t... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande manifest, led by an SD40T-2/GP35/GP40-2/GP35 power combo, winds through Castle Gate, Utah.

An eastbound manifest has rejoined the Price River after negotiating one of the tunnels in the canyon. From here, the train, which includes two GP35's in their original small lettering, will close... (more)

A brand new EMD SD40T-2 basks in the afternoon sun at the new Castle Gate coal loading facility in Price Canyon. The photo was captured on Kodachrome 64 slide film on the photographer's 17th birth... (more)

Richard Beal photo: Passing through Florence on the Royal Gorge route, a DRGW freight with some classic power, the SP starting to show.

You’re in the cab of Rio Grande SD45 5321 at Avon as a westbound runs around in the siding. A friendly engineer invited me up into the cab after seeing me setting up to get a picture of the meet... (more)

With a late afternoon storm gathering over Middle Park, 5397 5382 approach Troublesome siding, just east of Kremmling, with a westbound rail train in May 1981.

Under a stormy sky a westbound rail train, behind 5397 and 5382, passes flooded pastures to the east of Kremmling in May 1981.

5397 5377 3097 and 3125 slow an eastbound freight before swinging around a tight left-hander into Byers Canyon in January 1982. This curve being the scene of a serious derailment in the August of ... (more)

5397 5377 3097 3125 picks its way carefully through a snowy Byers Canyon with an eastbound freight in January 1982

Grande power abound at the Minturn, CO helper terminal on June 21, 1994, as several sets of DRGW SD40T-2s await their call to help trains over the famous Tennessee Pass.