Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper

Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2016

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1513 pushes hard on the caboose of a 55-car freight climbing the Front Range of the Rockies where the line crosses Coal Creek. The date is March 14, 1942, and the lettering on the bridge shows that the line is still owned by the Denver & Salt Lake, which D&RGW absorbed in 1947.
J. W. Maxwell photo

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