Wednesday Aug 20 2008
Four-of-a-Kind
Four-of-a-kind is a good hand in poker, and also makes for a good locomotive lashup when it consists of four Rio Grande tunnel motors. The quartet seen here is pulling an empty coal train westbound out of Salida, Colorado just before sunset as a late afternoon thunderstorm looms in the background near the Royal Gorge.
There are already two shots of this train from August of 1998 in the D&RGW album, but this was to be the last full Rio Grande lashup I would ever photograph, let alone on the Tennessee Pass line. It is hard for me to get enough of it……
