The Rio Grande Railroad operated in the spectacular Colorado
Rockies. Their slogan was "Through the Rockies, not Around Them."
Photos include 2-8-0 Consolidations, 2-8-2 Mikado's, 0-6-0 six-wheeler,
4-6-0 ten-wheeler, the big 4-8-4 Northerns that Rio Grande liked to call
"Westerns" and the larger 2-8-8-2 Mallets. Also included are
Electro-Motive passenger and freight locomotives FT, F3, F7, General
Purpose and Special Duty series, Electro-Motive SD40T-2 "Tunnel Motors,"
SD45 and SD50 locomotives, American Locomotive PA-PB and RS-3 series,
Fairbanks-Morse H-15-44, and diesel-hydraulic ML-4 locomotives from
German manufacturer Krauss-Maffei.