Re: NNG - Minturn Colorado Depot Demolished
| May 10, 2019 09:24AM |
Not sure what you mean by last trains. The last trains over Tennessee Pass ran in 1997, including a special run of UP 844. Several times in the 70s and 80s, the D&RGW was forced to run the Zephyr via Pueblo and the pass. Lots of freight activity over the pass until the end.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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