w.of Bennett, Colorado, 15JUL'79
Rock Island westbound freight #55 passes "Manilla" with 81 cars + caboose behind two GP38-2, rebuilt GP9 (4311-4300- ? ) This was our last place to bag this train. By now we we're getting into the Denver metro (I know it doesn't look like it) and probably ready to give it up. When I was working out of Limon for that one month of AUG'73, Numbers 55 and 56 were all TOFC, usually headed up by two or three GP40's. It's obvious that six years later this final remnant of Rock Island's fleet of freights into and out of Colorado was no fast hotshot - but it probably made more money and was therefore more beneficial to the shrinking balance sheet.
w.of Bennett, Colorado, 15JUL'79
Rock Island westbound freight #55 passes "Manilla" with 81 cars + caboose behind two GP38-2, rebuilt GP9 (4311-4300- ? ) This was our last place to bag this train. By now we we're getting into the Denver metro (I know it doesn't look like it) and probably ready to give it up. When I was working out of Limon for that one month of AUG'73, Numbers 55 and 56 were all TOFC, usually headed up by two or three GP40's. It's obvious that six years later this final remnant of Rock Island's fleet of freights into and out of Colorado was no fast hotshot - but it probably made more money and was therefore more beneficial to the shrinking balance sheet.