One day at Whistle Stop Hobbies, I discovered an Athearn blue box Rio Grande SD40T-2. I opened the box and saw the speed lettered, "Rio Grande" painted on the hood. Ever so often, a Rio Grande locomotive would wander through Davis. Recently, I had seen a tunnel motor. This model looked just like it. It wasn't every time that I went that I got a powered engine. Today, however, I just had to have this engine. I brought the box up to the counter and asked Lee, "Can we run this engine on the test track. I think I'll get it." "Rio Grande," he said. "Are you going to run this on your Southern Pacific trains are running through from Utah?" "Yes," I said. "I just saw one the other day." "Rio Grande and Western Pacific used to run the California Zephyr together with Chicago Burlington & Quincy," Lee said as we walked over to the test track. As the locomotive whirred into action, Lee said, "Ri