Contributions of the group Railroad guesses and memories North America

Colorado & Southern Freight bill

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Mon, 03 May 2021 00:51:26 +0000

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Central City to Denver, 11/7/1916

Found in an old book.

Union Pacific 4014

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:13:16 +0000

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Fujica G690, Fujinon 1:8/85, Kodak Ektachrome100

EMD G8 locomotive

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 16:43:23 +0000

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South of Boulder, Colorado

Denver & Rio Grande Western station

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:28:47 +0000

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Leadville, Colorado

RPCX 800257

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 02:44:12 +0000

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Railroad Passenger Car Alliance private car. Ex Boston & Maine #34 6-4-6 LW sleeper/P-S/1954. Denver Union Station.

Polaroid SX-70, Impossible Project SX-70 Color Film

CS 641

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Tue, 26 May 2015 01:55:08 +0000

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Colorado & Southern #641, a 1906 ALCO Consolidation, the last operating class 1 steam locomotive in America. Leadville, Colorado.

Hasselblad EL/M, Carl Zeiss C T* 80mm/f2.8, Fuji 400

SLSF 19

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Sun, 03 May 2015 02:27:59 +0000

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St. Louis - San Francisco railway #19. Although lettered for the SLSF, this locomotive actually never was a SLSF locomotive. It ran on the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad (reporting mark LSI). It was built in 1910 and eventually was purchased by the city of Frisco, Texas and put on display as a locomotive that was representative of those that ran on the SLSF.

Hasselblad EL/M, Carl Zeiss C T* 80mm/f2.8, Ilford Delta 100

Denver Union Station at night

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 02:58:51 +0000

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I enjoy how people disappeared from the photo as a result of the long exposure. The California Zephyr will depart shortly for Chicago.

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5, Wollensak Raptar 90mm, Kodak Ektachrome 100VS

The Kernel

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:16:32 +0000

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Ex-GWR 63 "The Kernel"

Colorado Sweet Gold LLC EMD SW-1. Colorado Sweet Gold is now an oil transshipment facility, formerly it was in the corn business. CSG does not appear to have its own reporting mark.

Built 12/1940, this 600hp unit with EMD construction #1235 was sold new to the Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern as it's $#233. It was purchased by the Great Western Railway of Colorado (GWR) 7/2/1959 along with another SW-1, and renumbered #63 on 7/63.

I am unsure when the GWR sold it to Colorado Sweet Gold, and if it did any service between GWR and CSG, perhaps at Coors Biotech as one of its sister locomotives did.

I happened upon this locomotive one day while driving through Johnstown, Colorado.

Hasselblad EL/M, Car Zeiss C T* Planar 80mm/f2.8, Fuji Velvia 50

GWSZ 13

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Thu, 22 May 2014 03:34:34 +0000

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Great Western Sugar Company 25-ton Davenport 0-4-0T built for the Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corporation of Manistique, Michigan, in April 1929

Last ran in 1987

Great Western Sugar Plant, Fort Morgan Colorado

Olympus SP570uz

CSX 5429

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:54:05 +0000

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Sandwiched between two BNSF locomotives is CSX Transportation 5429, a GE ES40DC locomotive.

Hasselblad 500 EL/M, Carl Zeiss C T* Sonnar 4/150, Kodak Portra 160NC 220 roll film, expired 2001

DRIR 1211

nobody@ipernity.com (Blue rubber octopus) — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:10:43 +0000

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Denver Rock Island EMD SW1500 is ex-UPY (Union Pacific) 1211, exx-SP (Southern Pacific) 2646. Purchased from UP on April 22, 2003

Photographed in 2013, Denver, CO

Hasselblad EL/M, Carl Zeiss C T* Planar 80mm/f2.8, Kodak Portra 160 220 roll film, expired 2006