Up until their retirement in 1999, Union Pacific would often used GP30's 3006 and 3003 as the power on the South Local and Rocky Local. Here, the South Local approaches Kalamath street in Denver headed south on the Joint Line.
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The sun gets ready to set on DRGW 3102 for one of the last times before the unit is retired a few days later.
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SP 5397, once DRGW 5397 until being repainted in 1995, sits in North Yard as the sun sets to the west. DRGW 5503 is visible in the background.
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Just days before being retired, DRGW 3102 sits in North Yard with badly faded stripes on its nose.
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Of the original 73 tunnel motors Rio Grande had, 16 were repainted in the Espee bloody nose scheme in 1994 and 1995. Here, SP 5378 has a few doors open as the third unit on the westbound MDVRO.
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The eastbound RODVT (Roper to Denver, Trailers) emerges from Tunnel 17 with a trio of Rio Grande SD50s for power. This train was something of a successor to Rio Grande's Railblazer.
This picture was taken using a Minolta XE5 on Tri-X 400 black and white film.
SW1000 #142 was the main switcher in North Yard for as long as I can remember. On this afternoon, it is switching some autoracks out on the yard ladder.
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One of the first train pictures that I can remember taking was when I was eight years old. This is Rio Grande's North Yard in Denver. A pair of GP30's lead a string of other power near the yard office.
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