Rio Grande tripleheader

Rio Grande tripleheader

By Angela Cotey | January 29, 2024

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Three locomotives – a 2-8-2, 2-8-8-2, and 4-8-4 – start the Rio Grande’s eastbound Royal Gorge out of Minturn, Colo., on Aug. 30, 1947. Ahead for the 18-car train: Tennessee Pass.
C. L. Carson photo

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