D&CC Photo Page

1) Denver & Rio Grande Whitcomb #42 takes a small grade as it works the Glenwood Springs industrial job.

2) Colorado & Southern #101 blocks main street while it takes on water in Glenwood Springs as a storm approaches from the west.

3) The local turn services various Minturn industries while the class 1 Denver & Rio Grande Prospector makes its way west to Grande Junction on the Denver mainline in the background.

4) Rio Grande #1229, a coffin feed-water Mikado and its combine, depart Belden station while the Denver & Rio Grande Western #3502, 2-8-8-2 class Y2 works the mine tipple job.

5) Denver & Cat Canyon #1135 leads the consist over Cat Canyon. The three tiers of track form the 2.7% grade approaches to and from Tennessee Pass. Each right of way needs to climb 18 vertical inches up to the pass.

6) The engineer of the Denver & Cat Canyon #1229 coffin feed-water Mikado wishes he could wet a line with the local fishermen while the crew waits at the Point Junction tower for further clearance into dark territory. The Point Junction branch serves a couple of businesses, a branchline station and also forms an interchange with the narrow gauge system.

7) Today Rio Grande Western #3502 articulated class Y2 fills in for the Mikado to provide the shove up the hill and around the final bend to Tennessee Pass for the morning westbound through freight. The helper is just about to cross over the narrow gauge line heading down to Point Junction.

8) A view of the class Y2 helper service working the grind up the 2.7% grade to Tennessee Pass. The narrow gauge line interchanges with the standard gauge service at Point Junction below the pass. Meanwhile Denver & Cat Canyon #1229 takes on water at the local tank.

9) A busy day on the docks of the ice house, Eastern Produce and Lahtza Beer Company on the Salida industrial branch line. The D&RG RS-3 #5204 works the industrial branch job. The local brings in and leaves with a ten car drag. It usually takes an experienced operator about an hour and a half to make all the industrial branch moves.