Boxing Day/The day after Christmas 29 years ago finds 5412, 5407, 5388, 5394 and 5375 in a snow storm climbing out of Minturn, on the way to Tennessee Pass, with #788 100-car coal from Cameo. The ... (more)

With a good head of steam, 5771, on the head of the Rio Grande Zephyr, awaits its 07.30 departure time, while 3099 and 3123 lurk in the shadows of Denver Union Terminal with that Saturday morning'... (more)

Not required for the summer season, Steam Generator 253 (former PB 6001) waits for cooler weather at Burham Works, Denver, in August 1981. This unit was fitted with Blomberg trucks for its final f... (more)

3121 leads a long line of D&RGW power at Denver, North Yard, in September 1981, while a Canadian visitor rests on the next road.

Visiting CN GP40-2 equivalents (GF-430c) join locals 3077 and 3055 at Minturn for creep control evaluation tests in September 1981.

A sunny June day in 1981 finds 5318, 5340 and 5374 going about their business on a westbound freight in Byers Canyon.

In seriously failing light, an eastbound freight heads towards Belden and Tennessee Pass behind 3008, 3050, 5338 and 3021, being assisted off camera by seven GP helpers, in November 1981.

3119 inhabits the small maintenance shed at Minturn in June 1981.

Westbound empty coal hits the east switch of Pinecliff siding behind 5393, 5388, 5347, 5398 and 5401 on a sunny day in October 1981.

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

Browned out by an inconvenient cloud, the westbound RGZ passes the Amax siding at Kremmling in November 1981, from the same location as http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=348061&nseq=3 b... (more)

Relatively young GP40 3057 is surrounded by "old timers" GP9's 5942 and 5951, SD7 5304, while chop-nose SD9 5305 works the hump at East Yard, Grand Junction, in October 1981.

5402 leads 5413, 5351 and 5385 out of the tunnel at Tennessee Pass on a helper set returning to Minturn in September 1985.

Eastbound #234 nears the end of its climb up to the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel - 3111, 3061 and 3117 approach Winter Park in February 1982.

Four GP30s, three GP40s and a GP40-2 make up the helper unit in between turns at Minturn in February 1982 - 3001, 3117, 3025, 3059, 3051, 3021, 3060 and 3002. GP30 3025 was wrecked at the Parshall... (more)