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Queen of the Fleet
-- F9 No. 5771 leads the Ski Train through the cut below tunnel 1 in March 1984.
One year earlier, the Rio Grande Zephyr would have looked just like this.
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Rio Grande Zephyr
-- No. 5771 leads the westbound RGZ on Thannksgiving Day 1982, near the entrance
to Coal Creek Canyon. The F9s and the Rio Grande Zephyr get
much more attention at my
RGZ,
Ski Train, and
Rail Encounters
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F9s in Retirement-- F9A No. 5771 and F9B No.
5762, restored and resting at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO, Feb 9, 2002.
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D&RGW Visto-Dome Chair Car "Silver
Bronco"
-- car
No. 1105, seen
May 1984
at the Burnham shops in Denver. This veteran of the California Zephyr and Rio Grande Zephyr
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Top: SW1000 No. 141
kicks cars at North Yard on 11/20/1990.
Bottom:
In February of 2000, No. 141 sits in retirement. Taken near the turntable at the former C&NW locomotive shop in Council Bluffs, IA. Photo by Jeff Ramsell. |
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Vintage Rio Grande-- Narrow Gauge K-37 locomotive No. 498, hard at work in 1967. Thanks to Jim Black for the photo.
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Narrow Gauge Flatcar No. 6672, being used as a bridge in Farmington, NM. This
car started as a SG boxcar in 1909, and was converted to a NG flat in 1956.
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 Unit coal
train descending the tunnel district on 11/20/1991. It is led by Nos.
5347, 5507, 5506, and 5395 (SD40T-2, SD50, SD50, SD40T-2). It is about to
enter Tunnel 1. Photo below is the same train.
Note the fourth hopper in the train, with the yellow rotary end--
the only non-quad hopper in the consist, this is a second-hand 3-bay car picked
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Three-unit swing helper on an eastbound coal train,
which consists of D&RGW 100-ton quad hoppers. Rio Grande practice at
this late date was to put a pair or trio of SD's in the middle of loaded coal
trains, with more on the rear. In this case, a tunnel motor and two SD50's
are doing the honors as the train descends the curves in Coal Creek Canyon.
(11/20/1991). Within a year, pure sets of Rio Grande power were a thing of
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EMD's
SD70M Demonstrator
unit No. 7000 is mid-train at Tunnel 1 on 7/20/94. It's paired with tunnel
motor No. 5365 as
swing helper on the CSUX unit train (coal for Colorado Springs' Martin Drake
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