San Luis and Rio Grande has painted their locomotives with their modified scheme using the flying Rio Grande including some F-units, recently sold. SL&RG also has a steam engine from LS&I, which is the first standard gauge steamer to have a flying Rio Grande in probably 50 years. They operate under the name Rio Grande Scenic Railroad.
Additionally, Canon City & Royal Gorge, operating as Royal Gorge Route, has diesels in nothing but prototype Grande paint schemes.
there is a tourist rr through Royal Gorge. The cost of running trains from 5,000 elev. to 10,200 feet is what ended Tennessee pass, and would make a low profit margin rr like a tourist train a money loser. That right there and the many many curves on the west side are why UP chose to use lower and straighter routes than Tenessee Pass......
Tennessee Pass
randommagnum 1 year ago
someone should, like an old partner of DRGW, then paint the locomotives into a DRGW scheme
SP4449BN9444 2 years ago
@SP4449BN9444 Great idea!
San Luis and Rio Grande has painted their locomotives with their modified scheme using the flying Rio Grande including some F-units, recently sold. SL&RG also has a steam engine from LS&I, which is the first standard gauge steamer to have a flying Rio Grande in probably 50 years. They operate under the name Rio Grande Scenic Railroad.
Additionally, Canon City & Royal Gorge, operating as Royal Gorge Route, has diesels in nothing but prototype Grande paint schemes.
ColoradoRailroads1 8 months ago
there is a tourist rr through Royal Gorge. The cost of running trains from 5,000 elev. to 10,200 feet is what ended Tennessee pass, and would make a low profit margin rr like a tourist train a money loser. That right there and the many many curves on the west side are why UP chose to use lower and straighter routes than Tenessee Pass......
BudmanPackfan 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing. Mountain Railroading at its finest!
silicon212 4 years ago
Such a fantastic line. Through the Rockies, not around them!
mafarnz 4 years ago