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Viewing Album:  California Zephyr Derailment 3/29/68
 
By:Gerard Putz
Dates:3/29/1968 - 3/29/1968
Album Info:One day in early 1984 I was working in North Billerica, Massachusetts (not for B&M). E. Maureen Byrne, a coworker, walked by my cubicle and noticed the railroad themed calendar on the partition. She stopped and asked if I were interested in trains. She said she enjoyed riding trains and had been on one when it derailed “somewhere in the middle of Colorado.” She didn’t remember which train it was, or exactly when or exactly where it had derailed. She did remember it was in a narrow canyon and she had to walk a long distance on the tracks carrying luggage to a bus. Then she said she had some slides of the derailed train. Would I like to see them? She allowed me to have duplicates made. Maureen was aboard the e/b D&RGW California Zephyr that derailed at Grizzly, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, 3/29/68. F9A #5774 and F9B #5772 derailed, were retired and scrapped. It appears from the second picture that F9A #5771, was the last unit in the consist because D&RGW had only two F9As. One of the two steam generator cars built from PB-1s also derailed. Thank you, E. Maureen Byrne.
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CZ Derailment 6/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 6/29/68
Description:  Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:05:10 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives: 
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CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Description:  Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:02:16 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives: 
Views:  150   Comments: 0
CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Description:  Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:35:02 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
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Views:  160   Comments: 0
CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Description:  Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:36:25 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives: 
Views:  167   Comments: 0
CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Description:  Bottom up in the Colorado River, Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:40:44 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  DRGW 5774(F9A)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Description:  Bottom up in the Colorado River, Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:43:08 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  DRGW 5774(F9A)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Title:  CZ Derailment 3/29/68
Description:  Bottom up in the Colorado River, Collection of Gerard Putz
Photo Date:  3/29/1968  Upload Date: 10/23/2022 2:47:06 PM
Location:  Grizzly, CO
Author:  E. Maureen Byrn
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  DRGW 5774(F9A)
Views:  251   Comments: 0

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