Missouri Pacific’s far western extension to Pueblo, Colorado, completed in 1887 as a sign of its transcontinental intentions under Jay Gould, disappeared a century later, gobbled up by all-devouring Union Pacific. But on December 17, 1964, the MoP still hosted a streamliner – the Colorado Eagle – and several daily freights. Here is eastbound 74, east of Boone out on the Colorado plains behind 798, a 1948-built F7A, a B-unit and a couple geeps. UP will eventually assess the Pueblo line, which was a bit shorter than its own Kansas Pacific route to Denver, and ultimately decide in favor of the latter. Today all that remains here is weeds and sagebrush.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
