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Owner: Denver & Rio Grande Western
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:DRGW 3116 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:74635-1Order No:74635
Frame Number:74635-1Built:9/1974
Other locos with this serial:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) UP 1343(GP40-2)
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e/b D&RGW Train
Title:  e/b D&RGW Train
Description:  Exiting Moffat Tunnel
Photo Date:  9/11/1980  Upload Date: 10/22/2022 4:36:02 PM
Location:  East Portal, CO
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5361(SD40T-2)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
Lead unit
Title:  Lead unit
Description:  For some reason I do not now recall, DRGW 5771 was not on the train this day. Instead we had a GP40-2. Ah well...
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 3/24/2013 4:26:54 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
RGZ at Salt Lake City
Title:  RGZ at Salt Lake City
Description:  RGZ ready to leave Salt Lake for the run to Denver.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 2/27/2011 1:29:10 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5762(F9B)
Views:  847   Comments: 0
Glenwood Canyon
Title:  Glenwood Canyon
Description:  We round a curve in the canyon.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:18:55 PM
Location:  Rifle, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
Power on the RGZ
Title:  Power on the RGZ
Description:  This was the head end of the RGZ the day I rode. Didnt get 5771, which was out of service for reasons long forgotten. We did have the F9B and the Alco PB power car.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:05:22 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  590   Comments: 2
Head end from the dutch door
Title:  Head end from the dutch door
Description:  One of the things I miss most about riding trains from the era up to about the mid 80s was riding the dutch door. Now the practically wont let you in the vestibules to cross between cars. This is a view of the front of the train as we rode through the Utah desert.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:11:50 PM
Location:  Thompson, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
We enter a tunnel
Title:  We enter a tunnel
Description:  There are 29 tunnels between the big one-Moffatt-and Denver. Here the train enters one of them.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:21:31 PM
Location:  Bond, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Tunnel,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5763(F9B)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
DRGW 3116
Title:  DRGW 3116
Description:  CLAY SIDING CO Oct 4 1982 -- Rio Grande GP40-2 3116 leads the westbound California Zephyr on its climb into Coal Creek Canyon. This view is from the east portal of Tunnel 1. EMD built the 3116 (b/n 74635-1) in September 1974. It became Union Pacific 1342 on April 1 2004. (Roster information from http://www.drgw.net/info/GP40-2)
Photo Date:  10/4/1982  Upload Date: 10/9/2013 12:37:00 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Charles Stookey
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  161   Comments: 1
DRGW 3116
Title:  DRGW 3116
Description:  TUNNEL NO. 1 CO Oct 4 1982 -- Rio Grande GP40-2 3116 leads the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr as it approaches Tunnel No. 1 . Web site drgw.net records 3116 was built in December 1972 and was repainted to UP No. 1367 during April 2005.
Photo Date:  10/4/1982  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 6:07:22 PM
Location:  Tunnel No. 1, CO
Author:  Charles Stookey
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  430   Comments: 1
DRGW 3116 West along the Price River
Title:  DRGW 3116 West along the Price River
Description:  Chuck Schwesinger photo
Photo Date:  6/8/1990  Upload Date: 11/12/2021 5:57:41 AM
Location:  Kyune, UT
Author:  Chuck Schwesinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 5319(SD45) DRGW 3098(GP40-2) DRGW 3107(GP40-2)
Views:  143   Comments: 2
D&RGW 3116
Title:  D&RGW 3116
Description:  SP Westbound Local Freight Train passing through Joliet, Illinois
Photo Date:  6/1/1994  Upload Date: 2/28/2010 12:31:14 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  588   Comments: 6
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S PROVO LOCAL.
Title:  SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S PROVO LOCAL.
Description:  Southern Pacific's GP60's were originally bought for hotshot and container service on the Sunset Route However,They were used in other areas of service on the SP System when needed. Such was the case on January 14,1996 when 9745 was on the point of the Provo Local with two Rio Grande GP40's (one being a former Conrail GP40),Is just minutes from delivering it's cut of cars to the former Rio Grande Yard at Provo. After delivering it's cut of cars to Provo,9745 will then return back to Salt Lake City servicing Geneva Steel on the way.
Photo Date:  1/14/1996  Upload Date: 12/25/2011 11:43:50 PM
Location:  Orem, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9745(GP60) DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 3132(GP40)
Views:  621   Comments: 2
DRGW 3105
Title:  DRGW 3105
Description:  Southern Pacific's 310 Job with a pure set of Rio Grande GP40-2's prepares to leave Provo for Salt Lake City.
Photo Date:  6/9/1996  Upload Date: 2/20/2011 6:12:01 PM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3105(GP40-2) DRGW 3116(GP40-2) DRGW 3120(GP40-2)
Views:  577   Comments: 0
RIO GRANDE GP40-2 NO.3116.
Title:  RIO GRANDE GP40-2 NO.3116.
Description:  Rio Grande 3116 rolls into Geneva Steel on the ''Newly Formed UP'' 330 Job "Provo Local''.
Photo Date:  9/29/1996  Upload Date: 12/18/2011 2:18:47 AM
Location:  Orem, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S UTO8L.(PROVO SWITCHER).
Title:  SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S UTO8L.(PROVO SWITCHER).
Description:  Southern Pacific's UTO8L (Provo Turn) with two GP40-2's of both Southern Pacific and Rio Grande livery are now just a memory However,With the merger of UP/SP only months old it was still business as usual with SP symbols and operations still in effect. Both 3116 and 7672 in charge of a train of taconite empties out of Geneva Steel.
Photo Date:  12/8/1996  Upload Date: 1/27/2011 12:36:04 PM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7672(GP40-2) DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
DRGW 3116
Title:  DRGW 3116
Description:  Southern Pacific's UTO8L (Provo Turn) rolls towards milepost 701.3 into Provo with a string of coal empties.
Photo Date:  12/8/1996  Upload Date: 1/27/2011 2:15:14 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2) SP 7672(GP40-2)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
DRGW 3116 at Stockton
Title:  DRGW 3116 at Stockton
Description:  Paul Wester photo
Photo Date:  10/7/2000  Upload Date: 6/29/2020 9:47:13 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Paul Wester
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  115   Comments: 2
DRGW 3116
Title:  DRGW 3116
Description:  DRGW 3116 on Santa Margarita Turn; patched to UP 1342 on 4/1/2004
Photo Date:  12/2/2003  Upload Date: 1/17/2005 12:21:28 PM
Location:  Paso Robles, CA
Author:  Paul S. Highland
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
none
Title:  none
Description:  San Jose to Rosville (MSJRV) manifest
Photo Date:  3/25/2004  Upload Date: 4/21/2004 11:25:54 AM
Location:  San Jose, CA
Author:  Tom Daspit
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3116(GP40-2)
Views:  754   Comments: 0


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