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DRGW eastbound at Green River, UT, March 1982
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emeraldexplorer2 · 1 month
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Here we see Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 5771 EMD F9A (1955) at the D&RGW Depot in Glenwood Springs, Colorado in July of 1973
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eltristan · 9 months
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TUNNEL #29
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Looking at some random downloads, realized a common theme was that Tunnel #29 is The. Cutest. Tunnel.
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The 2% grade from Denver up to the Moffat Tunnel crawls through South Bend Canyon (along South Bend Creek) with superfluous tunnels and a surfeit of sharp curves, thanks to the mandate of then-Chief Engineer H.A. Sumneso who surveyed the Moffat Route's well-nicknamed "tunnel district" at bountiful π/1 ratio of rail to "as the crow flies" distance as he tried every trick not to make it steeper than 2%
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A blasted rock bore barely 78 feet in length, tight-clearance Tunnel 29 on the Moffat Route is at milepost 36.38 and sandwiched between one of Sumneso's super-tight 12° cruves and the "curved bridge with no name" over South Bend Creek (which is officially named "Bridge 36.45" after it's milepost location) The feature on the creek's right bank seems to be locally nicknamed the Gibraltar Cliffs, from whence railfans look down on the tiny trains below.
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The cutest tunnel? Yep. Did I mention the Ski Train?
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aryburn-trains · 1 year
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Rio Grande’s ski train with newer equipment is only ten miles from Moffat Tunnel as it negotiates the narrow confines of Rollins Canyon near Rollinsville with three of owner Phillip Anschutz’s private cars on the rear on the last weekend of the season, April 6, 1991. Those cars were always available for charter to groups.
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locomotive-idiot · 11 months
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Saw this bad boy on instagram. thought ud like it
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i do
thank you very much
i love the D&RGW
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ice-to-orange-blossoms · 10 months
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Happy 95'th Birthday to Denver & Rio Grande Western 491! Love you Peaches!
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railwayhistorical · 2 years
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Tennessee Pass
An eastbound train is seen here on the Denver Rio Grande & Western line over Tennessee Pass. This specific locale is just north of Leadville, Colorado, near MP 284—Google Maps has it as Piney Gulch.
A Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 is on the point along with at least one unit from Conrail. This steep grade over the Great Divide demands a lot of horses and so there are two Southern Pacific units working hard at a mid-train position in addition to the six up front. At the time, this was the highest active mainline railroad mountain pass in the United States, but it is currently embargoed, though the tracks are still in place.
I saw a (FB) post of the pass by James Belmont today and so dug around to find these. This was never my turf, and I just happened to be there with my father, medium format camera (filled with Plux-X) in hand. I should say, those eight locomotives were screaming for all they were worth, and the train was moving at about five miles an hour.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in the summer of 1996.
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collinthenychudson · 9 months
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Towing an Eastbound manifest towards Denver, Colorado is Rio Grande 5371 and two other SD40T-2 "Tunnel Motors" as the train rumbles along through Grand County, Utah. No. 5371 would later find life working under Southern Pacific and Union Pacific with out being patched or renumbered. It was retired in March 8th, 2008 and was then donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum where the locomotive remains today. 
Models and Route by: Jointed-Rail, Auran, and Download Station
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theflyingkipper · 2 years
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tell me everything about your interpretations of real life locomotives
i just think they're neat
hello I am so sorry for making you wait months for an answer on this, I hope this is good!!
So I do have some locomotives from real life as part of my headcanons for TTTE characters (for example, Onslaught, Glory, and Greyhound are part of my D10 lore- and in my headcanon Diesel 10 is warship D810 “Cockade”)
But there are a few that don’t exactly relate to TTTE. I’ll be talking specifically about how I characterize them, with some links to past artwork I’ve done and any other informative links
Santa Fe 2926 (or “Santi”)
(2926 is the only one I’ve given a name that’s different from its running number so far, since shes the only one ive officially made into an OC)
Santi had a very short working life when she was still in service, and spent decades as a static display in a park. Oddly enough, shes not so grouchy as most display engines tend to become. I like to think she was in limbo for the most part while on display, kind of like Duke being buried in the shed. (Or like Captain America getting frozen for 75 years) When she woke up during the beginning of her restoration in the early 2000s, she was unaware of how much time had passed- which was very disorienting. Fortunately she’s had the restoration team catch her up on the last 60 years of human history.
Santi as of writing this post hasn’t been on any excursions yet as far as I know, and is still cooped up in the yard. I think she keeps an audio log of how she’s slowly going crazy in there.
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“Day 325 - the restoration team fixed my whistle! Its a shame I have no one of my own kind to scream at with it!”
I think Santi and R&N 2102 are pen pals. preserved 4-8-4 besties for life ❤️🚂
they narrate what they want written out loud to their engineers, they both sign off with 0000-00000000-0000, their shared wheel arrangement in text.
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Denver and Rio Grande K36s
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(I want to give them names, and they’d probably all start with the same letter)
9 out of 10 of the K36s are preserved, the 5th one got scrapped. In reality, the group is split across the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and the Durango & Silverton, but for the sake of this interpretation they’re all together
I found out about the K36s through a video by History in the Dark, he has a series of videos of “10 of the best trains ever”. I cant find the exact episode :(
Imagine the Dieseasel but there’s NINE of bill and ben instead of two. Though they aren’t as mischievous, they’re definitely just as irritating. They’re sort of a strange hive mind of little engines, akin to Ariel’s sisters in the Little Mermaid. Any time something spectacular happens on their railway, they find some way to spiritually communicate the happening to dear #485, their sibling who fell in a turntable and had to be scrapped- her damage was too severe. Though 485 was very much like the rest of them, she sort of becomes their saint- who they leave offerings of coal and water for in her old shed berth like its a medieval icon. Any time one of them misbehaves, one of their siblings is sure to tell them that 485 would be ashamed and she is not smiling on them right now.
Although this strays from their real life history quite a bit (and their gauge, which is 3ft), I think it would be hilarious if Thomas met them in a RWS-ified BWBA. He comes to their little railway and they all go front over wheels about their strange visitor. I also think the dynamic between them would be interesting, since the K36s are 9 out of their original 10, and Thomas is 1 out of the original 10 E2s. However, It’d probably take a while to get to that point in conversation with how supremely creeped out Thomas is by the K36s slightly cultish practices
Also, they’d probably chase him out of their little railway with pitchforks and acetylene torches if he brought up anything about turntables. They’re a bit of a touchy subject .
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NKP 765
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the 765 isn’t hard to find videos of XD Since shes the pride of the Nickel Plate Road and not converted to burn oil like lots of other large preserved engines, she takes pride in her unique status. I like to think she has the attitude of a great aunt or grandma with a gritty sense of humor and a laugh that could shake the walls. She does get puffed up in the smokebox, though, and has a hard time admitting she’s wrong. She has a bit of a parental relationship with the diesels on her railway, some of whom call her “granny”, and other endearments relating to her age.
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New Zealand V Class
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in a very different vein than everyone else, the V class all met the absolutely horrifying fate of being BURIED IN MUD
in my interpretation of them, The V Class have all become eldritch horror abominations, and local engines have kept their ghost stories alive and well. (usually taking the form of wayward vengeful spectres that like to make themselves known in uncomfortable places)
I had an idea where the V class emerges as one giant metal monster festooned with river sediment and garbage and terrorizes the locals but I don’t know enough about New Zealand or its railways to make an effective story.
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disease · 11 months
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World War II, women working at men's jobs @ D & RGW RR yards (Utah) | DEC 1943 [print photograph | 9.6 x 7.6″]
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guerrerense · 9 months
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D&RGW 491 during the 2023 Colorado Crossings event at the Colorado Railroad Museum. This weekend was a celebration of railroading in southwest Colorado with a spotlight on Beebe and Clegg. 5/23
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D&RGW 491 during the 2023 Colorado Crossings event at the Colorado Railroad Museum. This weekend was a celebration of railroading in southwest Colorado with a spotlight on Beebe and Clegg. 5/23 por Bryan Burton
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Ten diesels for Tennessee Pass Ten Rio Grande diesel locomotives — a GP35 and three GP30s on the point, plus four F7s and two Geeps at mid-train — power a 47-car freight up Tennessee Pass at Mitchell, Colorado, on September 11, 1969. David W. Salter
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emeraldexplorer2 · 17 days
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Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 6001 ALCO PA1 (1947) & Yampa Valley Mail at the D&RGW Depot at Steamboat Springs, Colorado on 1961
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eltristan · 7 months
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I saw this somewhere and if it was on here, I somehow didn't reblog it -- if it was elsewhere, then now it's here and you're welcome!
3xRio Grande tunnel motors
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aryburn-trains · 1 year
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The ski train grinds up the Front Range near Big 10 curve. Denver, CO December 28, 1991
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locomotive-idiot · 2 months
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did i ever mention how much money i spend on train sim
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