Late at night was a good time to visit Colorado & Southern’s Rice yard in Denver the late 1950s. You could set up your tripod out of the way of working railroaders. There was usually one of the road’s own 2-8-0’s shuffling cars and a set of Santa Fe units in from La Junta. On this March evening in 1959 it’s a set of FTs headed by the 105, a 1942 EMC product. These were the diesels that drove steam from the rails, a victory symbolized here by the cold, lifeless Burlington 2-8-2 stored at right.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
