Rio Grande
I was thinking what an unusual picture this is, it is really quite atypical of the DRGW ng. First you have two freshly shopped K-28's together on a train. Secondly, these engines are usually assigned to the Silverton passenger service, but here they are fake diamond stacks and all on the point of a freight train. And by DRGW standards of just a few years prior it is a very short freight, not one of the long 50 to 70 car trains that two engines typically dragged up Cumbres. And finally it is highballing down a relatively well ballasted heavy rail well kept line, not the 70 lb rail and native earth ballast of much of the ng.
Rio Grande
I was thinking what an unusual picture this is, it is really quite atypical of the DRGW ng. First you have two freshly shopped K-28's together on a train. Secondly, these engines are usually assigned to the Silverton passenger service, but here they are fake diamond stacks and all on the point of a freight train. And by DRGW standards of just a few years prior it is a very short freight, not one of the long 50 to 70 car trains that two engines typically dragged up Cumbres. And finally it is highballing down a relatively well ballasted heavy rail well kept line, not the 70 lb rail and native earth ballast of much of the ng.