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Helper, Utah--
An overview of downtown, seen from the hill to the west. There are four Rio Grande tunnel motors present, though one is hidden behind the engine shed. (11/10/01)
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The View From Crescent-- The Continental Divide is seen over the top of an eastbound coal train on October 9, 2000.
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Upper Arkansas Valley-- an SPL double-stack train
is westbound, just below Granite, on October 6, 1992. The kiddo is my oldest daughter.
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 Signal Mast on the Joint Line, North Colorado Springs. Looking south towards Cheyenne Mountain on
the chilly morning of October 11, 1996.
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The Royal Gorge, looking straight down at an SP train
on 8/16/96.
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The Hanging Bridge, at the bottom of the Royal Gorge,
one of the most famous locations on the Rio Grande system. (3/93)
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Bridge South of Kobe--
This bridge spans the Arkansas River, a couple of miles north of Granite on the Tennessee Pass mainline. Even in August of 2001, it still carries the Rio Grande herald. (8/04/01)
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The classic stone-and-red-tile Glenwood Springs Station, on June 29, 1995, with a westbound autorack train for flavor.
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Cliffs near Cameo dwarf the eastbound "Minturn Local" on October 10, 2000.
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The bridge over Colo 72 at Coal Creek Canyon, seen through the fog from
Tunnel 1 on July 20, 1994. Within months, the Rio Grande sign was replaced with a SPL meatball. Now even that is gone.
Note the intermediate signals on the right-hand end of the bridge, pointing
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Tunnel Motor in the Mist-- On July 20, 1994. An Espee SD45T-2, running light, is seen from atop tunnel 1 on its way down to Denver.
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West Portal of the Moffat Tunnel. (3/93)
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At Fraser -- Two SP tunnel motors push a D&RGW Maintenance-of way car up the 2% grade towards West Portal
on 12/29/1994. |
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Bridges Near Red Cliff-- On the west side of Tennessee Pass, a spectacular arrangement of bridges hang over the track. This view is from July 1995.
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Tolland is the next-to-last siding east of the Moffat
Tunnel, and was a base for helpers during the Rollins Pass days. Very
little of that history is visible now. Here we see three new SD70M's with a coal train. The first rung of the Giant's Ladder is visible;
so is the old Tolland schoolhouse (over the second unit's cab). East Portal is just up the valley in the center. (11/22/94)
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Portal of Moffat Tunnel-- looking in as an eastbound train approaches (note the
distant headlight). Taken in March 1978 using a 126 instamatic, this is
one of my oldest photos. Too bad I didn't also shoot the train when it
came out... Note that the west switch of the East Portal siding has been
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East Portal of Moffat Tunnel -- Five SP units lead an empty BN coal set into the tunnel in November 1994.
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Denver's North Yard, in a drizzle on September 19, 1999.
Visible at center are D&RWG GP40-2's 3105 and 3100. To the left is the
sanding facilities; to the right are the ladder tracks at the south end of the
main yard. Taken looking North-northwest from the 48th Avenue bridge. |
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