Soldier Summit can be a brutal place. D&RGW 5503 provides a helping hand to Amtrak #6, on New Years eve 1987. (Tom Ellis photo)

Rio Grande SD50s 5503, 5515 and 5502 have held the main at Floy to meet an eastbound and are now underway with a consist of Coors beer and pigs. The train was soon pulled off its former Rio Grande... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 701, westbound empties bound for the Energy Mine, rolls between Oak Creek and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Three of the latest additions to the Rio Grande roster,... (more)

A trio of nine-month-old SD50’s leads Rio Grande Train 701 west through Oak Creek, Colorado.

Leaving Phippsburg for the Energy Mine, Rio Grande Train 701 is about to duck under Colorado Route 131.

Rio Grande Train 701 waits to depart the west end of the yard in Phippsburg, Colorado. The train of empty hoppers arrived earlier from Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee Generation Station in... (more)

Three of the Rio Grande's 17 SD50s meet in Spanish Fork Canyon on Sept. 19, 1993. The 5514 (and SD40T-2 5387) are parked on the House Track, awaiting an eastbound train to shove to Soldier Summit ... (more)

A DRGW SD50 along with a Kodachrome SD45 pull a garbage train through Castle Gate.

A reasonably presentable 5503 sits between duties at North Yard, Denver, in September 1985.

Very rare DRGW SD50M leads rock train in Texas

NS Southbound Intermodal Train 237 at Lula, Ga. on NS'S Piedmont Division with a DRGW SD50 on the point

RioGrande 5503 Leads NS 237 Into Inman Yards