Nostalgia & History > Rio Grande PA 1947!

Here’s Rio Grande/Alco gem from the late Mr Emil Albrecht’s intrepid camera. This Kodachrome image is 72+ years old! I’m still scanning through the latest group of Emil’s slides, now in the Jim Watson collection. But this is an image from an earlier scanning session that I though I would toss up here for y’all. There is a man with a blue hard hat in the doorway of the engine compartment. With this PA fouling another track one can assume it’s in transit in the roundhouse area. Can anyone explain the vantage point Emil is shooting from?

1. D&RGW 600A in Salt Lake City, UT on October 5, 1947.
Original Kodachrome slide by Emil Albrecht, from the James W. Watson collection.

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Jim Watson (UP6900)



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Don't think that 8th ave  bridge is in Salt Lake.  

For a slide that is less than a year younger than I am, WOW!
Bob

And I was wondering where Rio Grande Pennsylvania was ;-)

Cole42 Wrote: > ... wondering where Rio Grande Pennsylvania was ...

Oops, that interpretation never occurred to me. I guess my 'intiguing' title needed a little bit of polish... :^/



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That paint scheme is straight from the time when masking tape, paint and labor were all cheap.
It didn't last for long...

The vantage point was from the door of an early version of a twin rotar helicopter known as the "flying banana."

That's the only thing I can think of..

Sven
 

santafe199 Wrote:
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> Cole42 Wrote: > ... wondering where Rio Grande
> Pennsylvania was ...
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> Oops, that interpretation never occurred to me. I
> guess my 'intiguing' title needed a little bit of
> polish... :^/

As a 30+ year Pennsylvanian, I can assure you that there is no need to polish the title.  Thank you for sharing that wonderful image.

Stunning.

JB - Omaha

The shot is off the 4th S. bridge which is south of the round house. Emil used that shot quite a lot.
Ryan Ballard

to me that looked like morning light had a hard time placing it in Denver or PA took me awhile...

Nice slide but typical high contrast Kodachrome which can be improved by reducing contrast in post process.

RWJ

WOW!

Bill Rettberg
Bel Air, MD

... 4th S. bridge which is south of the round house ...

Thanks, Ryan! I see they’re still trying to place the shot in Denver. Makes me wonder why I even bother to write up date & location captions. Emboldened, no less...

And to RWJ: Thanks! But the original slide is extremely dark, not to mention over 70 years old. I worked quite a while trying to lighten the image up. But no matter what I did, it always ended up looking washed out. That slide is back in Jim’s possession. If I can remember, maybe I can get it back and take another whack at scanning it...

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Did those units go to another road after Rio Grande got rid of them?  They didn't seem to last very long on the Grande.  

A units lasted till 1968, when the Yampa valley train died,  b units were converted to steam genies lasted till 1990's

the black paint as delivered, then they wore silver and orange before settling on 4 stripe orange, and then at least one a  got the single stripe to go to Pielet bros.

various images culled from net

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2nd shot by Bill Marvel



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