Nostalgia & History > Busy afternoon

Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver is a busy place on this February afternoon in 1965, with E8A units for the Denver Zephyr and California Zephyr and, at right, an E7A for the night train to Casper, all needing attention before they move down to Denver Union Station. In the background, S-2 9307, one of a fleet of Alco switchers working Denver’s 38th Street, is just in from a transfer run to Rio Grande’s North Yard and awaits its next assignment.

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Great photo - sure tells a story of a bygone era. 

That certainly is one great photo.....



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...a tremendous look back at the Q's finest hour.

Steve Zahn
Glenview, IL

 

Now, that is one fine photograph! There is more to great photos than 3/4 wedgies in the same location...over and over and over.  Thanks for sharing it with TO!



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Wow, look at all those E's, great shot!!

run8diesel Wrote:
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> ...a tremendous look back at the Q's finest hour.
>
> Steve Zahn
> Glenview, IL
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Well maybe.  Think of what it was like was like in the 1920s.  

My Bernard

Juxtapose comes to mind!

Great shot!  Must have been about end of the night train to Casper, can remember it rolling through Longmont, counting off the street crossings as it rolled down the middle of the street.

Great image...

Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com 

dendavis Wrote:
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> Great shot!  Must have been about end of the
> night train to Casper, can remember it rolling
> through Longmont, counting off the street
> crossings as it rolled down the middle of the
> street.

It was still running in the spring of 1967, for sure; my folks and I were living in the married-students'
housing complex near the CSU campus in Fort Collins, circa 1966-1967. I had a Denver Post paper-route,
and while delivering the Sunday morning edition, the SB "Nightcrawler" would be leaving
(what-was-then!) the south end of town towards Denver.  
It could be easily seen (and, almost-as-important, HEARD) from our 'front porch'.

Pat from Littleton, Colorado