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Colorado steam photos from Stan Kistler

Colorado steam photos from Stan Kistler

By Angela Cotey | December 19, 2014

| Last updated on December 8, 2020

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View additional photos from Stan Kistler's November 1956 trip, as featured in Winter 2014 Classic Trains magazine. All photos © Stan Kistler.

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A distant shot of a train traveling through the mountains
Climbing Cumbres Pass
In a view from the caboose, three Rio Grande narrow-gauge 2-8-2s (two up front, one at mid-train) climb toward Cumbres, Colo.
Stan Kistler
A distant shot of a train traveling through the mountains
A close up shot of a train with big white smoke coming out of its chimney
D&RGW narrow-gauge 2-8-2s
Rio Grande narrow-gauge 2-8-2s 495 and 487 hurry toward Antonito, Colo., with a dual-gauge freight from Alamosa.
Stan Kistler
A close up shot of a train with big white smoke coming out of its chimney
A train sitting at a station
UP engines at Denver
Union Pacific 2-8-2 2133 and 4-6-6-4s 3968 and 3713 stand at the Denver engine terminal.
Stan Kistler
A train sitting at a station
A train passing beneath a coal chute
UP 2498 at La Salle
Union Pacific 2-8-2 2498 is serviced at the coal chute in La Salle, Colo.
Stan Kistler
A train passing beneath a coal chute
A train passing by with big white smoke coming out of its chimney
UP 2498 departing La Salle
Union Pacific 2-8-2 2498 departing La Salle, Colo., for Denver.
Stan Kistler
A train passing by with big white smoke coming out of its chimney
A train passing by a building
UP 2-8-2 at St. Vrains
Union Pacific 2-8-2 2295 stands on the Dent Branch at St. Vrains, Colo.
Stan Kistler
A train passing by a building
Two train coming head to head at a rail yard

UP and C&S at Greeley
Union Pacific and Colorado & Southern 2-8-0s move around Greeley, Colo.
Stan Kistler

Two train coming head to head at a rail yard
A train passing by with two guys looking out the window of the train
Great Western’s “Notable 90”
Great Western Railway 2-10-0 90 with a mixed freight. She’s been on Pennsylvania tourist pike Strasburg Rail Road since the late 1960s.
Stan Kistler
A train passing by with two guys looking out the window of the train
A closeup shot of a train passing by
Great Western 2-8-0s
Great Western Railway 2-8-0s 51 and 75 at Loveland, Colo.
Stan Kistler
A closeup shot of a train passing by
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