West of Rollinsville. Somewhere around MP 45. Plainview is the west end of the siding. West of Rainbow Cut. I want to say somewhere around Coal Creek, but there's not much to go on.
Thank you! I knew someone would know a little better than I on where these photos were taken. USDOT Test Car T-3, October 1976 (Bob Jordan) Rio Grande SD40T-2 5355, Denver, CO, January 1975 (Bob Jordan)
5355 is pretty clean! The USDOT T3 shot is from east of Plainview Siding but west of Tunnel 1. You can see Big Ten curve's hopper windbreak in the background.
Rio Grande SD40T-2 5352, Denver, CO, 1975 (Bob Jordan) BN U28C 5673, ex-NP 2807, Denver, CO, April 1974 (Bob Jordan)
Amtrak E9A 432, ex-UP 959, Denver, CO, October 1973 (Bob Jordan) Amtrak E9A 430, ex-UP 957, Denver, CO, October 1973 (Bob Jordan)
Santa Fe F45 5935, Galesburg, IL, 1971 (Bob Jordan) Santa Fe GP7 2805, Denver, CO, April 1974 (Bob Jordan)
Santa Fe SD39 4015, Denver, CO, April 1974 (Bob Jordan) Rio Grande SD40T-2 5344, Denver, CO, March 1975 (Bob Jordan)
Man, that F45 and the GP9 are great. Love that Santa Fe freight blue. Thanks for posting. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
A quartet of Tunnel Motors are in view at Denver in September 1975 (Bob Jordan) The SFZ is almost at Denver as the train creeps up to the platform in May of 1973 (Bob Jordan)
The North Coast Limited scheme looks a bit out of place in mile-high! Very cool rainbow era Amtrak shot.
It does seem lost. But that was the way things were. I remember. Interesting to see the stuff which had never been my way, yet very sad to see the NCL and Builder gone.
It ran from The Twin Cities to Seattle. The traditional Empire Builder, GN, was gone. In it's place, was nothing as beautiful or historical.
That's why, when people get nostalgic over the Rainbow Era, I generally keep quiet. It was interesting. It was colorful. Compared to what we had from private enterprise, it was a travesty.
I purchased on Ebay for $15.00, a brand new Pentrex "Empire Builders to the Twin Cities" DVD that shows the '70-74' period of early BN/Amtrak, and Milwaukee Road of course, trains around St. Paul/Minneapolis area-talk about "Rainbow Era"!! CB&Q, MILW/UP, even some Eastern roads mixed in, never know what you'd see!!
Rio Grande Steam Generator 250, Denver, CO, January 1974 (Bob Jordan) In a familiar scene (to those of us in Colorado/Wyoming/Nebraska), but 44 years earlier, we see a trio of BN U30Cs assisting a loaded coal train south through Denver, in September 1974 (Bob Jordan)