A link to photos of trains in Colorado - including the 2 car Yampa Mail

Wow. There's a lot of great, different photos there from all over. I like the CBQ engines looking so new!

I'm not sure if I can re-post them here?

In 1961, when I was 15, we visited my aunt and uncle, who lived in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  Steamboat was not a very large town then, and I promptly hoofed it down to the D&RGW station, just in time to see four FT's pull about 50 empty Rio Grande stock cars toward Craig, which was the end of the line for all freight and passenger trains then.  (They were penning up cattle out at Craig, for seasonal movement to lower elevations.  We had waited for, and followed, a cattle drive which merged onto Highway 40, through a canyon for about a quarter of a mile on our way into Steamboat.  Western life, just the way it was.)  

After the black D&RGW caboose passed, I checked the train arrival and departure board in the station and saw that the Yampa Valley Mail was due in 30 minutes.  Sure enough, after 27 minutes, I heard the distant blatting of a Wabco single-note horn, and freshly-painted Alco-GE PA1 number 6001 came around the s-curve and made a smooth stop.  I checked the builder's plate (January, 1947) while the agent and the clerk loaded baggage and express.  There was no ex-C&O dome-lounge; that car was still running daily on the Prospector.  The train consisted of an RPO, a baggage car, and a coach, all heavyweight.  I had my Uncle Art's folding Polaroid Land Camera with me, and moved into position for a photograph when the train departed.  It didn't take long to do the station work.  The Engineer gave a couple of quick tugs on the whistle cord, opened the throttle to Run-2 and released the brakes.  As soon as the train was moving, he brought the throttle wide -open, and the Yampa Valley Mail departed Steamboat Springs under the most impressive cloud of black Alco exhaust I have ever seen.

I'll never forget that train.  Thanks for posting the link. Ed.

from that site above