RailPictures.Net Photo: 5734 Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad EMD F7(A) at Arvada, Colorado by Bill Marvel

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» Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (more..)
» EMD F7(A) (more..)

» Simms Street
» Arvada, Colorado, USA (more..)
» April 04, 1966

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» 5734 (more..)
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» Bill Marvel (more..)
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On a blustery April 4, 1966, F7A 5734 and a companion shove hard at Simms Street in Arvada, boosting a freight toward the distant mountains. In about 43 miles, at the Moffat Tunnel’s East Portal, the helpers will drop off and return to Denver’s North Yard. Delivered to the Grande in February, 1949, as 557D, one-fourth of an A-B-B-A set., the 1500-hp 5734 is technically intermediate between late F3 and early F7 models with updated generator and traction motors -- one of a dozen rostered by the railroad and sometimes classified (though not by the railroad or by maker EMD) as F5A’s.

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