The once-a-week Montrose Local heads South with a pair of ex-Rio Grande GP40-2's (UP #1358 and #1359) on the N. Fork Branch. At Delta the local will travel down the Montrose Industrial Lead.
CREX #1328 leads this Union Pacific loaded coal train Westbound on the North Fork Branch at Milepost #42. It is following along the Gunnison River.
The UP had a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch was 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP used it as a coal branch out to a few mines l... (more)
The eastbound Montrose local is being pulled on this day by UP 1363 and 1364, 1/2 mile west of Roubideau. This pair of GP40-2's have been recently rebuilt and repainted. Both locomotives don't lo... (more)
At Roubideau the tracks emerge from the canyon into the fertile Delta valley.
