The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad Builds Up Steam
for 2008

The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad recently announced the acquisition of two additional vintage steam engines and five dome cars for its tourist train operations headquartered in Alamosa.

The two 2-8-0 steam locomotives – former Lake Superior & Ishpeming No. 18 and Grand Canyon Railway No. 20 – are expected to be in service by 2008 and 2009, respectively. Both were built by Alco’s Pittsburgh Works in 1910, and both are currently stored in Hood River, Ore., where No. 18 was in service on the Mount Hood Railroad as recently as last summer. The move from Oregon to Colorado is slated for December.

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Just over a century ago, the railroad opened the San Luis Valley to the rest of the world by laying track across its borders. Today, the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad whisks passengers off to remote parts of the San Luis Valley, and those just beyond those borders, still wild and unspoiled by the last 100 years.
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