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| Title: |
Monarch Turn |
| Description: |
A pair of GP30's switch the limestone loader at Monarch Pass, elevation 10,148 feet. This train worked out of Salida, and the limestone went to the Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill at Pueblo. |
| Photo Date: |
8/3/1978 Upload Date: 5/23/2009 1:00:05 AM |
| Location: |
Monarch, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3007(GP30) DRGW 3002(GP30) |
| Views: |
1416 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound Coal |
| Description: |
A 45-car AEPX coal train was stopped at Minturn, Colorado for a crew change, a helper, and a meet. The train's road power was SD45 5334, GP40-2 3125, GP40 3069 and GP30 3026, while 30 cars back six more geeps were being cut in for the climb up to Tennessee Pass. The helper set consisted of GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40 3097, giving the train a total of 29,350 horsepower to move 6,000 tons! In the next 21 miles, the train would climb from 7,820 feet here to 10,200 feet at the east end of the Tennessee Pass Tunnel. Eighteen miles were on a 3% grade, while the middle three were slightly less than 2%. Before this line was closed to through traffic by the Union Pacific in 1996, Tennessee Pass was the highest mainline location in North America. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 4/27/2010 3:19:29 PM |
| Location: |
Minturn, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 5334(SD45) |
| Views: |
1889 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Meet |
| Description: |
The locomotives on an eastbound coal train and the caboose on a westbound mixed freight were at the east end of the little yard at Minturn, Colorado. While waiting for the mixed freight to descend the 3% grade from Tennessee Pass, a 6-unit set of geeps was entrained 30 cars deep in the 45-car coal train. The coal train had SD45 5334, GP40-2 3125, GP40 3069 and GP30 3026 as road power, GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40-2 3097 for helpers, and caboose 01464. The mixed freight had SD45 5316, GP40 3077, GP30 3018 and an unidentified GP40-2 with caboose 01480. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 7:08:09 PM |
| Location: |
Minturn, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 5334(SD45) |
| Views: |
1631 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Helpers |
| Description: |
Six geeps are running at full power as they boost a 45-car eastbound coal train out of the yard at Minturn, Colorado. The units -- GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40-2 3097 -- were cut into the train here for the 20-mile climb up to Tennessee Pass. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:45:40 PM |
| Location: |
Minturn, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3107(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
540 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
D&RGW caboose 01464 |
| Description: |
Rio Grande caboose 01464 rolls past the coal tower at the east end of the Minturn yard on the rear of an AEPX coal train. The 45-car train has an SD45 and three geeps up front and six more geeps 30 cars back. The helpers were added here for the 20-mile climb up to Tennessee Pass. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:45:11 PM |
| Location: |
Minturn, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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761 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Helpers |
| Description: |
Looking like toys on a model railroad, a 6-geep helper set boosts a 45-car coal train up the 3% grade from Mnturn up to Tennessee Pass. The units are GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40-2 3097, and they are 30 cars deep in the train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:44:19 PM |
| Location: |
Pando, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3097(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
631 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound Coal Train |
| Description: |
SD45 5334, GP40-2 3125, GP40 3069 and GP30 3026 lead an eastbound AEPX coal train into the Tennesse Pass tunnel; 10,212 feet above sea level. Six more geeps are 30 cars back in the 45-car train. The helpers were added at Minturn, 20 miles away and 2400 feet lower; and will be cut out at the other end of the tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:43:23 PM |
| Location: |
Tennessee Pass, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Tunnel,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3026(GP30) |
| Views: |
1041 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
AEPX train |
| Description: |
An eastbound AEPX coal train is stopped on the Rio Grande at Tennesse Pass siding, just east of the Tennessee Pass tunnel and about 10,200 feet above sea level. On the right are the road engines, SD45 5334, GP40-2 3125, GP40 3069 and GP30 3026; while a 6-unit helper set -- GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40-2 3097 -- is 30 cars deep in the 45-car train and caboose 01464 is on the rear. In a few minutes, the helpers will disentrain and return west 20 miles to Minturn, and the train will continue on its way to Pueblo. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:42:57 PM |
| Location: |
Tennessee Pass, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
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402 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Light Helpers |
| Description: |
A 6-unit helper set has just been removed from an eastbound coal train and is approaching the west end of the Tennessee Pass siding. GP40-2 3097, GP35 3047, GP40-2's 3110 and 3113, GP40 3065, and GP40-2 3107 are heading back to their base at Minturn, 20 miles away. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 8/26/2010 3:43:40 PM |
| Location: |
Tennessee Pass, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3097(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1436 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Helpers |
| Description: |
A Rio Grande 6-unit helper set -- consisting of GP40-2 3107, GP40 3065, GP40-2's 3113 and 3110, GP35 3047 and GP40 3097 -- heads into the east portal of the Tennessee Pass tunnel. The locomotives had just boosted a 45-car eastbound coal train up the 3% grade from Minturn up to the top of the pass. They had been cut into the train 30 cars back, and were now returning to their base at Minturn. At 10,221 feet, the east portal was the highest mainline track in North America. The tunnel the locomotives are entering was built in 1945; while the original tunnel, built in 1881, was on the right. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1978 Upload Date: 7/29/2010 4:24:10 PM |
| Location: |
Tennessee Pass, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Tunnel,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3107(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
959 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rio Grande Switchers |
| Description: |
These two SW1000's were parked between assignments at the Rio Grande's North Yard in Denver. |
| Photo Date: |
3/30/1983 Upload Date: 2/7/2010 12:03:30 PM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 145(SW1000) DRGW 144(SW1000) |
| Views: |
1247 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
D&RGW 5400 |
| Description: |
This view of the Rio Grande's North Yard in Denver is from West 48th Avenue. The coal train in the foreground had SD40T-2's 5400, 5342, 5359 and 5344 plus Missouri Pacific SD40-2 6048. The two SW1000's on the right are the 145 and 144, and the GP30's behind them are the 3013 and 3015. |
| Photo Date: |
3/30/1983 Upload Date: 2/7/2010 12:03:51 PM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 5400(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
1068 Comments: 2 |
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