RailPictures.Net Photo: DRGW 3117 Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad EMD GP40-2 at Soldier Summit, Utah by James Belmont

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» Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (more..)
» EMD GP40-2 (more..)

» MP 648.8, Soldier Summit, D&RGW Subdivision 6
» Soldier Summit, Utah, USA (more..)
» July 25, 1977

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» DRGW 3117 (more..)
» DRGW #187 (more..)

» James Belmont (more..)
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With a five pack of EMD geeps for power, a hot Rio Grande manifest heads west on the approach to 7440 ft. Soldier Summit. Note the single main track, something the Rio Grande wisely corrected in 1983 by reinstalling the second main, dismantled by the D&RGW in the 1960s.

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Make	Plustek
Model	OpticFilm 7600i