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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS012 (East Leyden)
Arvada, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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For a couple of years, UP's schedule for the MGJNY seemed to be such that it often arrived in Denver in pre-dawn hours. Sometimes, on the longer days of the year, it might arrive in early morning light. However, something seems to have shifted a bit as it has become more common for it to show up in the mid-morning to mid-afternoon. Here, the manifest rolls east out of Leyden one minute before 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Leyden (7,020ft)
Arvada, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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I was a little bit surprised to find UP 1100, a GP60, on the eastbound MGJNY. Why surprised? Well, I caught the same unit also going east exactly two weeks earlier. Heading east again so soon, makes me suspect that it has some sort of mechanical issue that needs to be sorted out. If that's the case, it is likely headed for North Platte, NE.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Detector (MP 22.6)
Arvada, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific, Rocky Mountaineer
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Just west of Blue Mountain Road, the Rocky Mountaineer passes by the hotbox detector at milepost 22.6. This detector will report the number of axles, train speed, and temperature to the crew. In this case, if the detector reports anything other than 52 axles, the crew will have to either inspect the train, or reduce speed until the next detector. However, the detector reliably reads out 52 axles this morning.
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