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Photo ID: 107688
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
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44th Avenue
Golden, CO
1712
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Yard Shots Rio Grande
Definitely something you do not see every day! A nearly 200-ton SD40T-2 being suspended in mid air by four cranes, slowly rolling west down 44th Avenue! Crews are working to get the old Tunnel Motor on to the property of the Colorado Railroad Museum.
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Photo ID: 107687
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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44th Avenue
Golden, CO
1475
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Yard Shots Rio Grande
Hulcher Services was contracted to move DRGW 5401 down 44th Avenue and on to Colorado Railroad Museum's property. Hulcher Services is the primary contracts used by all the US Class 1 railroads when assisting in derailments or other unexpected moving of equipment.
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Photo ID: 107686
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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44th Avenue
Golden, CO
1712
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Railroad
Yard Shots Rio Grande
About an hour after leaving the rails at the 44th Avenue grade crossing, Hulcher Services has DRGW 5401 hoisted back up off the panel track and is starting to roll west toward the entrance to the Colorado Railroad Museum.
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Photo ID: 107685
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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44th Avenue
Golden, CO
1321
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Yard Shots Rio Grande
DRGW 5401 is nearly across the Farmers Canal bridge (rolling on panel track) and four cranes from Hulcher Services will soon lift the until back up and continue it rolling toward the Colorado Railroad Museum.
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Photo ID: 107684
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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44th Avenue
Golden, CO
1554
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Railroad
Yard Shots Rio Grande
Hulcher Services works to drag DRGW 5401 across panel track that has been laid in the middle of 44th Avenue over the Farmers Canal bridge.
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Photo ID: 107683
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1467
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Golden (BNSF) Rio Grande
Four cranes from Hulcher Services have the nearly 200-ton Tunnel Motor suspended above 44th Avenue and are slowly rolling west toward the Colorado Railroad Museum. The cranes will stop at a bridge that runs over an irrigation ditch just ahead. There, panel track has been laid down the middle of 44th Avenue. The cranes will place DRGW 5401 on the panel track and it will be rolled across the bridge. The cranes will then cross the bridge and continue carrying the unit to the museum.
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Photo ID: 107682
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1308
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Golden (BNSF) Rio Grande
DRGW 5401 (patched as UP 9871) has been lifted clear of the rails and is now starting to roll west on 44th Avenue toward the Colorado Railroad Museum entrance.
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Photo ID: 107680
Date Shot
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
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Golden
Golden, CO
1183
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Golden (BNSF) BNSF, Rio Grande
BNSF 1826 has cut away from DRGW 5401 at the grade crossing at 44th Avenue. Crews had the road closed, so this was as close as it was possible to get from the east end. Four cranes from Hulcher Services prepare to lift DRGW 5401 off the rails.
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Photo ID: 107677
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1473
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Golden (BNSF) Rio Grande, BNSF
Great seeing Rio Grande fly letters on the side of an SD40T-2 in 2018. Sure, DRGW 5401 (patched as UP 9871) is not operating under its own power, but with an SD40-2 on either side of it, it was not too hard to imagine!
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Photo ID: 107676
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1715
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Golden (BNSF) Rio Grande
DRGW 5401 (patched as UP 9871) was the last unpatched Rio Grande Tunnel Motor to lead a train on the Moffat! In 2004, it led a work train from Phippsburg, CO to North Yard. It was also one of the last four Tunnel Motors to depart Helper, UT. Fitting that its brother (DRGW 5371, also one of the last four) was preserved and now live in Ogden, UT.
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Photo ID: 107675
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1292
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Golden (BNSF) BNSF, Rio Grande
Not a sight you see every day! A Rio Grande SD40T-2 on BNSF rails in Golden, CO. BNSF is moving DRGW 5401 (patched as UP 9871) from the Coors Brewery to the Colorado Railroad Museum, just a few miles away. Note the "M" on the mountain in the distance, representing the Colorado School of Mines.
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Photo ID: 107674
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1223
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Golden (BNSF) BNSF, Rio Grande
SD40-2s BNSF 1826 and BNSF 1665 escort a cousin Dash-2, DRGW 5401 (patched as UP 9871) east near milepost 14.5 of BNSF's Golden Sub. DRGW 5401 has been stored on Coors property for the past eight years, waiting for the Colorado Railroad Museum to work out a space for it. The unit had been stored next to the building almost directly above the cab of BNSF 1826.
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Photo ID: 107673
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1170
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Golden (BNSF) BNSF, Rio Grande
On the west end of BNSF's Golden Sub, a little over 15 miles west of C&S Junction, BNSF 1826 leads the way east on the line toward the grade crossing on 44th Avenue.
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Photo ID: 107672
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1264
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Railroad
Golden (BNSF) Rio Grande
Opportunities to get shots of anything Rio Grande are (obviously) few and far between in 2018! So a change to see the fly letters on the side of a Tunnel Motor on an active track was something I did not want to miss.
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Photo ID: 107671
Date Shot
Photo By
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Golden
Golden, CO
1503
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Golden (BNSF) Rio Grande
It is an overcast morning as BNSF moves DRGW 5401 off of Coors Brewing property for the last time. Two BNSF crews and BNSF's Train Master were present to oversee the moving of the Tunnel Motor, which has spent the past eight years on Coors property.
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