Drifted snow is lit up by a rising sun over the plains as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train descends the 2% grade toward Denver with lone DPU GE AC4400CW No. 7305 on the rear west of Leyden, C... (more)
With plenty of alpenglow on the Front Range mountains very early on the morning of January 22, 2007, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade just west of Leyden, Colorado.
Union Pacific’s West Local crosses over Colo. Highway 72 just west of Leyden, Colorado, on January 27, 1998. Leading the train is venerable Rio Grande GP30 No. 3003.
Rio Grande and Southern Pacific ordered six 4000 HP diesel-hydraulic prototype units from Krauss-Maffei of Germany. Three Rio Grande #4001-4003 and three SP #9000-9002. Rio Grande kept them for ... (more)