Trains from my travels - Colorado and surrounding

[Corsair]

Welcome! I moved up to CO late last year and have been exploring around ever since. I work in outside sales for a pet food company so any town with a feed store is fair game. I'm usually moving a little quickly for rail fanning, but I still manage to get a few shots here and there. I occasionally go to NM, UT and WY but mostly Colorado.

Feel free to add any pictures of your own, otherwise I will just update this thread as I get something good.

Durango & Silverton using steam to shuffle some cars around



My favorite Goose from the Colorado Railroad Museum



Ex DRG&W GP30 waiting for restoration. The Museum also has a tunnel motor sitting at Coors waiting for funds to move it into the museum



A dead line of F-units in Alamosa. Hard to tell if they're here for restoration or parts





Steam hibernating the winter in Chama, NM



The engine house at Silver Plume for the Georgetown loop



Back in Durango, a tiny diesel handling switching duties



Thanks for looking!




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[Charlie B]

I'm sorry I am late seeing these wonderful pictures. I really enjoy pictures from your area. Please post more as time goes by.
and welcome to big Blue.
Charlie

[Corsair]

Thanks. There is a real wealth of railroad history here. I'm sure I will get more action shots as the tourist season gears up.

In the meantime, a misused 44T basking in South Fork on an SL&RG storage spur




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[Charlie B]

If you have an interest in eastern railroads, I post in the thread "trains on this day in the past" and sometimes I go back 40 years. That is a nice shot of the 44 tonner.
Charlie

[railohio]

In June 2015, I took part in a Trains Magazine-sponsored tour of Colorado railroads:

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[Corsair]

In June 2015, I took part in a Trains Magazine-sponsored tour of Colorado railroads:

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Those are some amazing shots! I got here just before winter, happy that spring is here and I can ride some trains soon. That looks like a great tour!

Ran through Pueblo today





I'm not sure if there is an actual 'museum' around here, but there is some weird stuff laying around. Mostly a junk BN MOW train and some really decrepit passenger equipment.

The UP yard is right next to the store tracks



Along with some rebuilt geeps from a local line (?)



And another GE switcher. Maybe a 44T, but it looks a little strange. The axles look like they have a differential on them, but that wouldn't make much sense. Didn't have time to crawl around near it to solve the mystery. Not sure UP likes people lingering too long near the yard either.




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[Corsair]

Big Boy 4004 in Cheyenne on a wet evening. She's looking a little worse for wear these days, but still conveys an incredible sense of power. Hopefully the city will spare some cash to clean her up soon.


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[Corsair]

Took a trip out to Ogden, UT today and made some time to visit the Union Station museums. They have a really unique collection, although everything is parked so tightly that taking pictures is a challenge.



Being in Union Pacific's backyard, most of the collection has roots with the UP. The SD45 looks downright tiny compared to the GTEL.



Here she is in all her faded glory.



Both the tunnel motor and the Centennial are really imposing machines. The later is a real odd duck. Having only seen one in HO scale, the clownish proportions can only be appreciated in 1:1 scale.



I never knew about this, but the tail end of the Centennial sure looked like it had a second set of controls. Also, the couplers are absurdly long castings with a huge swing. Who knew how prototypical those slotted Athearn pilots were!



This utterly battered Alco was interesting to say the least, although the challenge of photography in the shed is pretty clear. One of the only locomotives not from the UP, Utah Railway ended up with it but clearly didn't have enough faith in her to invest in paint.



I hear this is one of the last full body GM locomotives left on earth. The SDP40F. It looks like a nightmare just sitting there, with cabling and conduits running all over the place. It really does look like someone took an SD40 and haphazardly shoved its guts around. The massive size of the steam generator compartment makes the stories of weight balance easy to believe. Apologies for the framing of the shot, the locomotive is practically pushed into a fence.



I swear I never saw a 44T the entire time I lived in the South, but it seems like the mountains are riddled with them. This museum has 3! Funny addition to this one, MU capability.




I had a lot of fun checking out this little guy. Aside from having a soft spot for old EMD switchers, and the SW1 being the adorable runt of the litter, I just spent months working on an HO scale one. I'm happy with my work after comparing to the real thing [emoji4]



844's sometime sister, looking pretty in the shade




I grew up in Texas right near to the SP mainline running West out of Houston through Sugar Land. Hacked up, clapped out road warriors like this old geep are exactly what got me excited about railroading when I was a kid. This one looks fresh off the late era SP, from the horrible paint to the bullet hole in the cab glass. This unit is now on my short list of things I want to model in HO. I even have the P2K unit to tear apart!

So basically, the museum is great. Definitely stop if you're in Utah.






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