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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: |
908 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 4107 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: |
1763 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RGZ |
| Description: |
It's 8:20 on a Summer evening and the westbound RIO GRANDE ZEPHYR is making its station stop at Provo, Utah. The next stop, and the end of the trip, will be Salt Lake City, 44 miles away. GP40-2 3103 is substituting for F9A 5761 and the other locomotives are F9B's 5763 and 5762, with ex-PB1 heater car 252. The 8-car train consists of combine 1230, flat-top coaches 1120 SILVER ASPEN and 1121 SILVER PINE, dome cars 1106 SILVER COLT, 1107 SILVER MUSTANG and 1105 SILVER BRONCO, diner 1115 SILVER BANQUET and dome-observation car 1145 SILVER SKY. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1978 Upload Date: 6/7/2009 9:19:52 PM |
| Location: |
Provo, UT |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3103(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1913 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Helpers |
| Description: |
Six geeps are running at full power as they boost a 45-car eastbound coal train out lf 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: |
794 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
1229 Comments: 1 |
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