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News Photos DRGW 315's First Steamup After Restoration
Date: 08 Aug 2007
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It's not even a good shot, but with failing light and too many people in front of me, I just raised the camera and fired. Here's 315 emerging from the roundhouse under her own power.
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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And stepping onto the turntable, right at sunset.
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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A large number of Durango Railroad Historical Society members pose with 315
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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Sitting on the turntable in twilight
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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Another shot on the turntable
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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315 and RGS 42 sitting under moonlight in Durango
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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And back in the shop, fire dropped, for some additional work.
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
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This gentleman was one of the last to fire 315 when it was in service on the Grande, and so the DRHS brought him back to shovel some of the first scoops of coal into the restored engine. (Unfortunately I lost the scrap of paper on which I scribbled his n ...
Date: 08 Aug 2007
Owner: ND Holmes
 
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