Rio Grande 2-8-8-2s, compound and simple

Rio Grande 2-8-8-2s, compound and simple

By Angela Cotey | February 10, 2025

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 Mallet 3413 helps 2-8-8-2 3606, a newer, simple-expansion locomotive, up the Front Range of the Rockies with a 48-car freight at Pinecliff, Colo., in May 1940.
J. W. Maxwell photo

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