January 1969

Cover and Article: Local Passenger Train Over the Gorre & Daphetid

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GDRP comment: The next series of images are isolated photos, with the comments included, of the 21 views along the route. Use the pop-up link below to open the…
photo caption: 1: No. 49 backs onto the Great Divide turntable early in the morning, ready for the local passenger run east to Port. There is little activity in…
photo caption: 2: As no. 49 rolls off the turntable toward the outbound ready track it approaches no. 39, the railroad's largest and heaviest loco, a 2-6-6-2,…
photo caption: 3: After the Ten-Wheeler (in the distance here) backs onto the waiting and ready cars at Austin Street Station in Great Divide, it pauses for the…
photo caption: 4: As the morning gets brighter the semaphore gives us the green eye and our local departs. It consists of a baggage, an express reefer, a steel…
photo caption: 5: After passing under Great Divide Yard in a spiral tunnel we stop briefly at X Junction for baggage, express freight shipments, and passengers.…
photo caption: 6: As we approach Gorre we glide slowly over Ryan Gulch on the highest wood trestle on the railroad: the tallest bent is 125 feet high. The…