Nostalgia & History > 9200 SFe horses in Denver

If I’ve counted the hooves correctly there is 9200 HP in the Santa Fe consist sitting here. That 3rd unit looks like an SD26 to me. Photographer Hol Wagner was out shooting with his good friend, Jim Watson. Here’s a link to a related shot Jim took:
( https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5190916,5190916#5190916 ).

1. AT&SF 5627 + siblings at Denver, CO on September 2, 1981.
Original Kodachrome slide by Hol Wagner, from the late James W. Watson collection.

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels
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Why is that guy hanging on to the front of the 354?  Is the train moving into a coach yard?  

ExStarlightHog Wrote: > ... Why is that guy hanging on to the front of the 354?

It looks to me like the train is passing through a turnout into another track, and he's riding up to line another switch. Someone more familiar with DUT operations can surely give us a better explanation...

Lance

Cool photo!

An "A+" view!
Bob

this is the SFZ passing the old washrack , out of service to the left, it is starting to wye, hence the switch thrower will hang a right over the south platte and back into the depot, you can see the platteon the left.  BN freight Trains were still going thru union station, where the end of the train is the direct line to the station which was another 3/4 mile  or sp.

The GN boxcar was neat it went from there to near the stockyards and is now at Pueblo rwy museum, which is having an event today.

The crews still call the curved track " the washrack " even thou it isn't on the same alignment as the washrack, put was parrallel .  You can see fresh ballast wherethe washrack track was stubbed, ballast from Guernsey i think.   This was what the CZ pulled thru till 1969, and the q would run the TZ , DZ cars thru amongst others.  Amtrak continued to use till just prior, on the 4-6 cars removed at denver everyday, but the BN was forced to deal with a diesel plume and treat wastwater going into the Platte from their roundhouse diesel shop, and with that progress we lost the washrack, so no superliners got a bath there, which is to bad as occaisionally the new CZ could use it.  then by 1995 union station was stubbed at the south end and all freight started going thru here, still alot of picked switches here freight and the CZ.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/26 12:17 by dan.