A pair of tunnel motors are about to pull their empty coal train through the tunnel over the continental divide. The other train stopped after clearing and the helpers on that train uncoupled and ... (more)
Posed in basic black and imitation gold, Rio Grande's GP9 #5931 in original paint scheme. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.
Just after putting a two-car train away in the yard and spotting caboose No. 10286, the crew of SD9 No. 6223 have put the locomotive to rest inside the spiffy looking wooden roundhouse at Leadvill... (more)
An eastbound Rio Grande coal load takes the passing siding at Pando to meet a work train approaching from the west. Kodachrome 64 transparency captured from the US Hwy. 24 overpass along D&RGW's s... (more)