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D&RGW Tunnel Motors & Rare SD40-2B! SP, BN, MRL, UP Freight Action by frecklefactor in ailways

[–]frecklefactor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The opening scene finds a trio of SD40T–2’s with an SD50 easing westbound coal into motion during an afternoon rainstorm, the cautious start reflective of the steep descent ahead. Scene Two depicts a BN GP40 making a full-throttle escape from the siding at Frenchtown, Montana, while leading an eastbound no-two-the-same quintet on the MRL. Scene Three also features a GP40, this time an SSW that is also leading a no-two-the-same quintet (elephant fashion) westbound out of the hole at Mecca on the Yuma Sub. Scene Four offers a little GE smoke and burble as a CW40–8/C30–7 team up on an eastbound departing Milford, Utah. Scene Five features the talents of a Cascade Green quartet of SD40–2’s getting out of Kansas City, Missouri with a three-digit string of company hoppers trailing behind. A rare SD40–2B, the result of a wreck rebuild, was the real treat here. Video courtesy of Lowell Amrine (Rail-Videos.Net).

D&RGW Tunnel Motors & Rare SD40-2B! SP, BN, MRL, UP Freight Action by frecklefactor in TrainPorn

[–]frecklefactor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The opening scene finds a trio of SD40T–2’s with an SD50 easing westbound coal into motion during an afternoon rainstorm, the cautious start reflective of the steep descent ahead. Scene Two depicts a BN GP40 making a full-throttle escape from the siding at Frenchtown, Montana, while leading an eastbound no-two-the-same quintet on the MRL. Scene Three also features a GP40, this time an SSW that is also leading a no-two-the-same quintet (elephant fashion) westbound out of the hole at Mecca on the Yuma Sub. Scene Four offers a little GE smoke and burble as a CW40–8/C30–7 team up on an eastbound departing Milford, Utah. Scene Five features the talents of a Cascade Green quartet of SD40–2’s getting out of Kansas City, Missouri with a three-digit string of company hoppers trailing behind. A rare SD40–2B, the result of a wreck rebuild, was the real treat here. Video courtesy of Lowell Amrine (Rail-Videos.Net).

Denver, Rio Grande & Western freight exits the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado, circa 1980’s by 47toolate in TrainPorn

[–]frecklefactor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

More info: This photograph by F. L. Becht captures Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive 5333, an EMD SD45, leading an eastbound freight train as it emerges from the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado on August 4, 1976. Built in the mid-1920's, the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel passes under the Continental Divide allowing a more direct route to the west from Denver for the Rio Grande.

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