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Date: 12/16/12 09:27
Overnight from Denver
Author: GrandeGold

Rio Grande's Railblazer 'Sprint' train #103 slams across the CTC controlled switches at West Riverton, Utah. Trains #102 and 103 had expedited 14 hour schedules, delivering piggyback traffic (with a single crew change) between Denver and Salt Lake City for $299.

D&RGW GP40-2 #3129 is pictured on a bitter cold early morning in February 1987. Train 103 is about a dozen miles or so from tying up (on time) at Rio Grande's Piggyback Terminal in South Salt Lake.

James Belmont
Salt Lake City, UT

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Date: 12/16/12 14:09
Re: Overnight from Denver
Author: dan

grande shot

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Date: 12/16/12 14:23
Re: Overnight from Denver
Author: WAF

Thought it was 8 trailers to break even on the run

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Date: 12/16/12 15:09
Re: Overnight from Denver
Author: tomstp

It looks like it has 9 loads.

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Date: 12/17/12 11:21
Re: Overnight from Denver
Author: the_expediter

Cabooses must have just come off...Nice shot...Steve

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Date: 12/17/12 12:07
Re: Overnight from Denver
Author: WAF

Train was two man crew. Even with cabooses, it would run two man. That was the idea

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