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Railroads & Locomotives Locomotives Rio Grande narrow gauge action

Rio Grande narrow gauge action

By Dick Wallin | June 27, 2021

| Last updated on September 20, 2022

8mm movie footage of a steam locomotive

Passenger and freight trains circa 1959

The movie camera of R. R. “Dick” Wallin finds 3-foot-gauge Mikados at work in Colorado and New Mexico.

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