The last Rio Grande diesel without a UP number awaits an assignment.
A Rio Grande Moment to Savor: D&RGW 5371 retrieves an ex-D&RGW covered hopper in a former D&RGW desert town...
Rio Grande 5371 makes a very rare appearance on Cedar Hill with a covered hopper retrieved at Green River, Utah.
Just after sunrise, Rio Grande 5371 works the former D&RGW yard at Helper.
A bright assortment of UP power greets a passing BNSF manifest, late in the day at Helper yard.
The last original D&RGW unit on today's Union Pacific emerges from the twin Kyune Tunnels on the climb to Soldier Summit grade.
For now, the "dirt train" consist still includes a Rio Grande tunnel motor. The sun appeared briefly to illuminate this scene on an otherwise cloudy and snowy day.
The last "unpatched" Rio Grande SD40T-2 on the UP system idles at the Helper engine terminal. Only one other former D&RGW unit remains "unpatched" on the UP...a GP40-2.
I found a pair of unpatched D&RGW tunnels in the yard at Helper this weekend past . . . the were near the sand tower.
