The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado continues to cosmetically restore their two diesel veteran DRGW units; 5401 (SD40-T2) and 3011 (GP30).
With the line blocked by a grain train, they ran the freight and did as much work as they could then turned to head back to Chester. The second unit is a road slug C40-8W, a unique use for an old... (more)
Eastbound Union Pacific freight RODVM (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to Denver Manifest) heads downgrade out of Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on October 22, 1997. Rio Grande’s first ... (more)
A Rio Grande coal train snakes through the multiple curves leaving the east switch at Azure, Colorado, entering Gore Canyon along the Colorado River. A trio of EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors lead the e... (more)
Rio Grande train 187, off the Burlington Northern in Denver, has a couple of Cascade green machines in the consist on the morning of July 8, 1989, as the westbound freight climbs toward Tunnel 1 a... (more)