EMD demonstrators are testing on Rio Grande's Craig Branch as they bring a coal train from Axial to the Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs through the loops at Crater, CO. Scanned from a Kodach... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal train claws its way up the hill out of Bond on the Craig Branch.

A Union Pacific Board of Directors train heads westbound out of Bond, Colorado, on the Dotsero Cutoff on September 28, 2000. Powering the long passenger train is new EMD SD70M No. 4167 and three E... (more)

The appropriately named Bond served as the meeting point of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad from the West and Denver and Salt Lake Railroad from the East. In later years, it served as a d... (more)

The westbound RGZ makes a smokey departure from its timetabled stop at Bond in December 1981.

A Public Sevice of Colorado coal train awaits a new crew at Bond, CO on the former Rio Grande Dotsero cutoff.

Sperry Rail Service 144 waits on the Craig Branch at Bond for the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr to clear. The view is from the dome of observation-lounge "Silver Sky".

Taken from the front of the first dome car, the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr meets an eastbound coal at Yarmony, behind 5393, 5344, 5391, 5355 and 5345, on a pristine Colorado day in October 1981.

The westbound Rio Grande Zephyr approaches the historic State Bridge, between Yarmony and Bond, in February 1982.

Tunnel Motors 5364, 5362, 5352, 5398 and 5406 on an eastbound coal make a smoky departure from Yarmony after a meet with a westbound freight in November 1981.

Slowing through Orestod, for a crew change at nearby Bond, the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr passes a frozen Colorado River in March 1982.

UP 5917 approaching Bond on its way east along the Dotsero Cutoff.

The Rio Grande heritage unit was a surprise leader of the eastbound California Zephyr due to a malfunctioning Amtrak engine. UP 1989 led the train all the way to Chicago.

Playing Rear Admiral in the Silver Sky of the westbound RGZ as it rolls along following the Colorado River between Bond and Dell, on the Dotsero cut-off, in October 1981

Flash back over 27 years from http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=279881 sees 5367 5377 5359 5412 and 5364 on an eastbound coal approaching Yarmony siding in February 1982.