If you like hard-working steam action, this is a must-have for you. The regional Railroad San Luis & Rio Grande operates former Rio Grande Standard gauge routes from Walsenburg to Alamosa, Colorado and beyond. Besides the normal freight operations they started running tourist passenger trains, and acquired former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 number 1744. This engine ran its last trips for the SP in 1958, and you will even see a clip of that last run in 1958. The locomotive only ran for 1 season on the SL&RG in 2007, and it only operated one special photo train that year.
The route takes us east from Alamosa, Colorado to La Veta up the La Veta Pass with many steep grades, and beautiful remote locations. Steam had not been used on this former D&RGW line since 1956.
On September 20, 2007 we begin with a freight train photo special and see a multitude of steamy runbys, where the engine is really working hard.
The next day September 21, 2007 the 1744 operated a 4 car passenge |
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