Steam faces diesel at Salida

Steam faces diesel at Salida

By Angela Cotey | April 26, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 1138 watches as four brand-new GP9s bring an eastbound freight into Salida, Colo., on the Tennessee Pass line in December 1955. Trains for the narrow-gauge Monarch Branch operated out of this yard, hence the dual-gauge track.
Jim Shaughnessy photo

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