Wil's Slide Box

LegomanBill May 8, 2017

  1. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    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.

     
  2. LegomanBill

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    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)
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    Rio Grande SD40T-2 5355, Denver, CO, January 1975 (Bob Jordan)
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  3. HemiAdda2d

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    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.
     
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    Rio Grande SD40T-2 5352, Denver, CO, 1975 (Bob Jordan)
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    BN U28C 5673, ex-NP 2807, Denver, CO, April 1974 (Bob Jordan)
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    Amtrak E9A 432, ex-UP 959, Denver, CO, October 1973 (Bob Jordan)
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    Amtrak E9A 430, ex-UP 957, Denver, CO, October 1973 (Bob Jordan)
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    Santa Fe F45 5935, Galesburg, IL, 1971 (Bob Jordan)
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    Santa Fe GP7 2805, Denver, CO, April 1974 (Bob Jordan)
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  7. HemiAdda2d

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    I love the pinstripe scheme on ATSF engines.
     
  8. Kurt Moose

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    Santa Fe SD39 4015, Denver, CO, April 1974 (Bob Jordan)
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    Rio Grande SD40T-2 5344, Denver, CO, March 1975 (Bob Jordan)
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  10. txronharris

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    Man, that F45 and the GP9 are great. Love that Santa Fe freight blue. Thanks for posting.

    Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
     
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    Two more views of Rio Grande 5344, both in Denver in March 1975 (Bob Jordan)
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  12. HemiAdda2d

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    Simply 'Grande!
     
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    A quartet of Tunnel Motors are in view at Denver in September 1975 (Bob Jordan)
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    The SFZ is almost at Denver as the train creeps up to the platform in May of 1973 (Bob Jordan)
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  14. HemiAdda2d

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    The North Coast Limited scheme looks a bit out of place in mile-high! Very cool rainbow era Amtrak shot.
     
  15. BoxcabE50

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    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.
     
  16. acptulsa

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    Where did the Empire Builder go? Were you along the Mississippi?
     
  17. BoxcabE50

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    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. :(
     
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  18. acptulsa

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    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.
     
  19. Kurt Moose

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    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!!o_O
     
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    Rio Grande Steam Generator 250, Denver, CO, January 1974 (Bob Jordan)
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    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)
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