After meeting a southbound manifest here at Crews, this northbound has a clear signal and is throttling up to enter the CTC-controlled single track mainline.
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This northbound coal empty is stopped at Crews to wait for a southbound manifest that is currently at Kelker. I thought it was somewhat interesting that there are only three unique numbers between the two units (9992 and 8888).
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This Canadian National SD75I was something of a treat here in Colorado! The unit the second of two on BNSF's daily Kansas City to Denver priority manifests.
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This northbound Kansas City to Denver manifest is on the single track main between Crews and Kelker. It'll go into the siding at Colorado Springs to meet a southbound that was up around Monument at the time of this shot.
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Prior to the Joint Line being run as the Joint Line, the Santa Fe track crossed over the Rio Grande track just south of Crews. In this shot, you can see the embankment in the top-right corner where the Santa Fe track used to run. The southbound coal load here is staying on Main 1, but the ownership of the rails is changing from Union Pacific to BNSF.
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About 10 miles south of Colorado Springs, double track starts once again at Crews for the remainder of the trip down the Joint Line. You can see this coal load diverging onto the southbound main.
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When Santa Fe and Rio Grande competed to get to Denver from Pueblo (prior to the Joint Line), there were three spots where the two lines crossed each other with a grade separation. Crews is one such spot. The Rio Grande trackage passed underneath the Santa Fe trackage. Here, a BNSF northbound unit grain train is heading toward Denver.
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