Rio Grande SD7 5304, Denver, CO, February 1973 (Bob Jordan) Rio Grande SD7 5303, Denver, CO, October 1973 (Bob Jordan)
Rio Grande F9 5771, November 1976 (Bob Jordan) A freight rumbles up to the Glenwood Springs depot on March 5, 1972 (Bob Jordan) And for comparative purposes, a photo I took last year from nearly the same vantage point
Wish I could time travel. That GP30 led freight surely shook the ground some in passing! If only I could have been there!
A pair of Sierra Pacific geeps roll along near Denver, early 1973 (Bob Jordan) (In reality, this is Rio Grande 3011 and 3032 painted up for their appearance in the TV movie Runaway.) The RGZ rolling past a freight, April 1974 (Bob Jordan)
No clear-cut location for the second photo. Doesn't look east side of the Divide. Maybe west of Moffat Tunnel? But look at the piles of snow accumulated behind the domes! Must have been a wicked storm they passed through!
The F9 trio heads through the cut at Plainview, January 1975 (Bob Jordan) Dome-Obs. "Silver Sky" in Coal Creek Canyon, July 1974 (Bob Jordan)
Awesomeness! Is that a handcar shed at the Coal Creek loop? The intermediate signal here is clocked so much you almost can't see it unless you're about half a mile away!
D&RGW Business Car 100 "Wilson McCarthy" at Coal Creek Canyon, June 1974 (Bob Jordan) The RGZ snakes through the S at Big Ten, July 1974 (Bob Jordan)
Those are great, Will. Driving through Glenwood Canyon used to be full of happy surprises on the rails. It has been so long since I have been there I'm sure things have changed. That Bob Jordan shot brought back memories.
Love seeing all of those domes. Unlike ATK today, that car design allowed a view forward. Instead of the neck straining sideways twists of today...
The tail end of the RGZ rounding Big Ten, July 1974 (Bob Jordan) A far off shot of the RGZ rounding Big Ten, June 1974 (Bob Jordan)
I wish there were some shots, but I didn't see any at the time I was buying them. The cars of the RGZ rounding the curve at Coal Creek, July 1974 (Bob Jordan) New South Wales Government Railways C38 4-6-2 3822, New South Wales, AU (????)