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By:Wil Hata
Dates:1/1/1941 - 12/31/1999
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D&RGW Prospector
Title:  D&RGW Prospector
Description:  The shortlived first version of the Rio Grande's Prospector.
Photo Date:  1/1/1942  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 7:45:37 PM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW BRIGHAM_YO(RDCA)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Rio Grande PA-1 600A
Title:  Rio Grande PA-1 600A
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer during 1947.
Photo Date:  3/1/1947  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 7:22:49 PM
Location:  Bond, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW 600A(PA1)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
D&RGW FTa 541A Nose
Title:  D&RGW FTa 541A Nose
Description:  Taken circa 1949 by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1949  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 5:52:36 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW 541A(FTA)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Rio Grande FTa 544A
Title:  Rio Grande FTa 544A
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  6/1/1949  Upload Date: 10/12/2023 11:52:47 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
Special Run
Title:  Special Run
Description:  A special runs south near Acequia, CO behind PA-1 601 and a F3B.
Photo Date:  8/13/1949  Upload Date: 9/16/2021 5:00:01 PM
Location:  Acequia, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  377   Comments: 0
D&RGW FTA 551A
Title:  D&RGW FTA 551A
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Photo Date:  9/7/1949  Upload Date: 9/18/2021 10:16:11 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  279   Comments: 0
Rio Grande F7A 5664
Title:  Rio Grande F7A 5664
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  6/1/1950  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 6:09:57 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5664(F7A)
Views:  31   Comments: 0
Rio Grande F7A 5664
Title:  Rio Grande F7A 5664
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  6/1/1950  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 6:09:15 PM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5664(F7A)
Views:  26   Comments: 0
D&RGW F7A 5551
Title:  D&RGW F7A 5551
Description:  Taken during the mid-1950s by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1954  Upload Date: 5/2/2024 9:39:00 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  44   Comments: 0
Rio Grande F7B 5552
Title:  Rio Grande F7B 5552
Description:  Taken during the second half of May 1956. 5552 was involved in the collision of two freight trains at the siding at Troublesome, CO on May 15, 1956. The D&RGW made a safety film about this wreck.
Photo Date:  5/18/1956  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 7:23:31 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5552(F7B)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
Rio Grande GP9 5953
Title:  Rio Grande GP9 5953
Description:  Not quite a year old, GP9 5953 is rolling along near Plainview, CO. 5953 was built in July 1956. It would be sold to NRE in 1991.
Photo Date:  6/1/1957  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 8:58:15 PM
Location:  Plainview, CO
Author:  John Hill
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5953(GP9)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
Rio Grande FTa 5454
Title:  Rio Grande FTa 5454
Description:  Passing through Arena on its way up the front range, FTa 5454 leads a 25 car Ski Train. 5454 was built by EMD in June 1943 as 545D. It would be retired in December 1964 and traded in to EMD on a GP35 order.
Photo Date:  3/29/1958  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 12:17:00 PM
Location:  Arena, CO
Author:  Rastus J. Luiershaft
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5454(FTA)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
Rolling Up Arena
Title:  Rolling Up Arena
Description:  With a GP9 sandwiched in the middle, four FTs roll up the front range with a 25 car Ski Train.
Photo Date:  3/29/1958  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 12:52:26 PM
Location:  Arena, CO
Author:  Rastus J. Luiershaft
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5454(FTA)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Crossing the Eagle
Title:  Crossing the Eagle
Description:  Rolling over the Eagle River and about to pass under the highway bridge is a freight lead by F7A 5621.
Photo Date:  9/13/1959  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 4:56:35 PM
Location:  Red Cliff, CO
Author:  G. T. P.
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5621(F7A)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Rio Grande GP7 5112
Title:  Rio Grande GP7 5112
Description:  Where narrow gauge power of the D&RGW and RGS once tread, GP7 5112 trundles freight past the ageing depot at Ridgway. 5112 was built by EMD in June 1952. Like the narrow gauge before, 5112 would disappear from the roster in 1972, having be sold to the Rock Island. It would be rebuilt by the ICG in 1976 as CRI&P 4442. After Rock Island shutdown in 1980, 4442 would be sold to the C&NW, becoming C&NW 4117. 4117 would make it onto the UP roster and was retired in 1996.
Photo Date:  7/1/1962  Upload Date: 10/4/2023 11:12:36 PM
Location:  Ridgway, CO
Author:  Chris Ahrens
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Locomotives:  DRGW 5112(GP7)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
Rio Grande F7A 5654
Title:  Rio Grande F7A 5654
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Photo Date:  7/14/1964  Upload Date: 10/12/2023 12:52:44 PM
Location:  Thistle, UT
Author:  Hilliard N. Proctor
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Across The Utah Desert
Title:  Across The Utah Desert
Description:  Streaking along east toward the Colorado border, a Rio Grande freight shuffles along near Thompson, Utah. On point is GP30 3014, a January 1963 EMD product. It was sold to Progress Rail in 1995 and again to Progress Rail in 1996. That same year, it was sold to Cimarron Valley Railroad. It ran on that line until 2018 when it was sold to Klarr Locomotive Industries and moved to Utah.
Photo Date:  3/16/1965  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 9:18:12 PM
Location:  Thompson, UT
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  DRGW 3014(GP30)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Rio Grande F9A 5771
Title:  Rio Grande F9A 5771
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Photo Date:  3/4/1984  Upload Date: 10/12/2023 12:53:13 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  John Hill
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Views:  96   Comments: 0


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