| September 23, 2001
Joel and I took a drive to downtown Denver and through the yards, we ran across a couple of interesting pieces of equipment.
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Union Pacific #5653 Dash 8-40B
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Sitting next to North Yard was a train containing Santa Fe #4256 B23-7.
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Rio Grande #5401 SD40T-2 was sitting in North Yard, it looks like it was being placed on the lead of a train heading out.
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Rio Grande #5361 SD40T-2 was second. Sorry for the poor shot but I didn't feel like getting chased by the railroad cops today.
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On some Union Pacific tracks were the above two bulkhead flat cars loaded wtih huge tires.
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Also sitting on the same UP tracks - KYLE #5200 Ashley Drew & Northern
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An old Northern Pacific tanker was sitting in string of MOW equipment next to the BNSF engine tracks.
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Another piece of MOW equipment, an old 2 Bay Covered hopper with the roof cut off is used to haul ballast/gravel.
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