DRGW 5385 sits alone in the yard in Helper on Memorial Day. At this point, 5385 was being used as a yard switcher in Helper.
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Note that DRGW 5406 is missing its orange stripe along its running boards! Sometime around 1995, the unit was retrucked at Burnham, and everything below the walkway was repainted black. The orange stripe was never reapplied.
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DRGW 5385 idles quietly in the foreground, while its fellow tunnel motors wait near the engine house in the background for helper duty.
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Although many of its colleagues left Helper over the course of the next six years, 5390 was there up until it blew a main generator and had to be taken to Illinois to be fixed….and patched….late in 2005.
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A somewhat unique tunnel motor at this point, DRGW 5345 had a rotating beacon above the cab, and a full light package on the nose. The horn, however, had been moved back to the long hood.
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1999 or 1979? It was great having the opportunity to capture so many tunnel motors in one place before they fell into retirement, or into the UP patch shops.
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