Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 3107 - EMD GP40-2

Bryan Copple photo

Chuck Schwesinger photo

Jim Sandrin photo

Randy Curlin Collection

A Coleta Creek load waits at the east end of Trinidad.

This lash-up will be the power for CSX train Q601 with the Cotton Belt GP60 leading. D&RGW 3107 was later UP 5261, UP 1361. Date of photo approximate.

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.

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.

Garbage is the scenery at Central Avenue as SP Yard Job 606 works East Bridge.

SP Yard Job 606 works East Bridge.

DRGW 3107 Pulls a weed spraying train through Humble.