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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Denver & Rio Grande Western
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:DRGW 3116 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:74635-1Order No:74635
Frame Number:74635-1Built:9/1974
Other locos with this serial:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) UP 1343(GP40-2)
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Lead unit
Title:  Lead unit
Description:  For some reason I do not now recall, DRGW 5771 was not on the train this day. Instead we had a GP40-2. Ah well...
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 3/24/2013 4:26:54 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
RGZ at Salt Lake City
Title:  RGZ at Salt Lake City
Description:  RGZ ready to leave Salt Lake for the run to Denver.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 2/27/2011 1:29:10 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5762(F9B)
Views:  861   Comments: 0
Glenwood Canyon
Title:  Glenwood Canyon
Description:  We round a curve in the canyon.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:18:55 PM
Location:  Rifle, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Power on the RGZ
Title:  Power on the RGZ
Description:  This was the head end of the RGZ the day I rode. Didnt get 5771, which was out of service for reasons long forgotten. We did have the F9B and the Alco PB power car.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:05:22 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  602   Comments: 2
Head end from the dutch door
Title:  Head end from the dutch door
Description:  One of the things I miss most about riding trains from the era up to about the mid 80s was riding the dutch door. Now the practically wont let you in the vestibules to cross between cars. This is a view of the front of the train as we rode through the Utah desert.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:11:50 PM
Location:  Thompson, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
We enter a tunnel
Title:  We enter a tunnel
Description:  There are 29 tunnels between the big one-Moffatt-and Denver. Here the train enters one of them.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:21:31 PM
Location:  Bond, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Tunnel,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  347   Comments: 0


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