It's train time at Helper! At least half a dozen workers are on the ground, prepping the Rio Grande Zephyr for it's 175 mile journey east to Grand Junction, Colorado. Interesting details in this Kodachrome transparency include the old freight house track veering to the left, the silver painted combine car, D&RGW's depot with it's original flat roof, the standard of the day blue Chevrolet service truck, and a pair of healthy shade trees lining the north end of the station platform. Lots of great memories here of a wonderful place to observe the Denver & Rio Grande Western doing it's thing.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
