HRT 3044's engineer side cab, still wearing Rio Grande paint.

Former Denver, Rio Grande Western Railway GP35 3044 in 2024. No time traveling DeLorean needed.

An old, weathered former Denver, Rio Grande & Western locomotive stands on the railway line adjacent to an industrial silo and a structured building on Georgia's Hartwell Railroad.

Former Rio Grande GP35 No. 3044 is switching at the Rose Acre feed mill in Bowersville on a pleasant summer morning.

Former Rio Grande GP35 sits out in the countryside at the Perdue Mill outside Bowersville, Georgia as the moon dips down toward the horizon.

HRT 3044, ex-Rio Grande, sits next to the rear of a southbound Hartwell train. HRT 4556, ex-CNW, brings up the rear of the southbound train, posing for a photo before heading on southbound.

A former Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35 pulls a train over a rural crossing just outside Lavonia, Georgia. You could not tell from tis photograph, but the train is very close to the busy Interst... (more)

A former Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35 pulls a train through Lavonia, Georgia for current owner Hartwell Railroad in 2008. Here it passes the old Southern Railway which has since been repainted... (more)

The Hartwell Railroad's former EJ&E SD38 and former Rio Grande GP35 rest in Bowersville, GA awaiting their next assignment. HRT 3044 HRT 654

Former Denver & Rio Grande Western in Lavonia, Georgia in 2009

Hartwell Railroad GP35 NÂș3044, still with it's as delivered regalia from 1965 although extremely weathered is at Rose Acres Mill in Bowersville, Georgia on the evening of April 25, 2020.

HRT GP35 NÂș3044 stands in Lavonia, Georgia wearing it's original attire from EMD's Lagrange plant, built in January 1965.

Wait what year is it again (copyright Tj M. Murrah)

Former Rio Grande GP35, HRT 3044, sits in the quiet town of Lavonia, Georgia below the planet Venus, the bright star to the left of the locomotive.

It's a dreary, foggy, and cold winter night with low hanging clouds and misting rains. HRT 3044, the Ex Rio Grande GP35 sleeps peacefully in it's usual spot at the Lavonia yard.