Rio Grande’s Short-Lived Flirtation with GE
With few exceptions, the Denver & Rio Grande Western was associated with diesel locomotives built by EMD. Many boast the “the ACTION road” never rostered a single General Electric engine. Think again. Rio Grande acquired a small fleet of six GE 44-ton, 380 HP switch engines between Aug. 1941 and Sept. 1942, numbered D&RGW 38-43. No. 41 was retired from the roster in Aug. 1954 and sold to Utah Power & Light to shuffle coal hoppers in its Carbon power plant at Castle Gate in Price Canyon. My little brother Dan is posing on UP&L 41’s footboard at Castle Gate on a warm Sept. 28, 1975 morning. History from UtahRails.net
Rio Grande’s Short-Lived Flirtation with GE
With few exceptions, the Denver & Rio Grande Western was associated with diesel locomotives built by EMD. Many boast the “the ACTION road” never rostered a single General Electric engine. Think again. Rio Grande acquired a small fleet of six GE 44-ton, 380 HP switch engines between Aug. 1941 and Sept. 1942, numbered D&RGW 38-43. No. 41 was retired from the roster in Aug. 1954 and sold to Utah Power & Light to shuffle coal hoppers in its Carbon power plant at Castle Gate in Price Canyon. My little brother Dan is posing on UP&L 41’s footboard at Castle Gate on a warm Sept. 28, 1975 morning. History from UtahRails.net