It isn't very often that you can find a tunnel motor these days, regardless of the paint scheme. I was very happy to find UP 2935 (ex-UP 4522, nee-SP 8243) sitting near the yard office at 36th Street. This particular tunnel motor has worn yellow paint since it received a full repaint almost nine years ago in March 1998!
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UP 1445 - formerly DRGW 3129 - moves slowly through the yard tracks of 36th street alongside UP 2002. I like that the two units that are the focus of this shot are both owned by UP, but neither has much yellow on them.
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A shot of the detail in the scheme along the long hood of UP 2002, one of the two specially painted Olympic units for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, UT.
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A roster shot of UP 2002 which reads "Salt Lake 2002, light the fire within" on the long hood. UP 2002 and UP 2001 (click here) were painted in this highly unique scheme in late October 2001 to pull the Olympic Torch around much of the west part of the country! Five years later, the units have not yet been repainted.
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UP 2002, the second of two units specially painted for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, leads the MGRDV-03. The train sits, crew still on board, on the inbound main just north of 36th Street in Denver.
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Where's the rest of the water when you need it!? Here, the "class unit" for the GP60M's (BNSF 100, ex-ATSF 100) heads down one of the tracks that leads to "the house". There, the unit will be serviced and prepped for its next assignment.
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A very rare consist on the point of the HDENLAU as it prepares to depart BNSF's 31st street yard. FURX 7223, BNSF 7834 and MRL 392 lead the train as it approaches the wye track that will lead it around toward Rennicks.
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These four units are fine examples of the two railroads that made up BNSF. Two (BN)SF GP60M's in warbonnet and two BN(SF) SD40-2's in green and white move toward "the house" at 38th Street.
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On the final leg of its 120 mile trip, UP 1989 (and two fellow SD70M's) throttle up for the final few yards into North Yard. Not a bad (day time) roster shot of the Heritage Unit - darn overcast!
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UP 1989 is the third unit (of three) on the northbound MPUNY. The train, is arriving very late (by its standards), coming into the North Yard at 2:30pm. Normally, the train is in the yard by 4am!
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After completing a long run from Pueblo to North Yard, the MPUNY-13 (with UP 1989 as the third unit) arrives at the south end of North Yard just before 2:30pm. The train was held at Monument (just south of Palmer Lake) for about 5 1/2 hours, form 6am to 11:30am.
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Two southbound coal loads (one stopped, one passing) have high-class lofts as a back drop at 20th Street. The train on the right has two ES44AC's on the point. The train on the left (tied down in the Lodo Siding) has two ES44AC's DPU's on the back. All four units wear the latest BNSF scheme.
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Built to Union Pacific specs, CEFX 1002 is currently being leased to BNSF from "CIT Rail Resources". The unit was sitting coupled to an SD70MAC near the engine house.
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The "CSX" on the side of CSX 8828 looks more like just "CS" at this point. Leaking oil has done a pretty good job of obscuring much of the engineers side of the unit. Rebuilt from an SD40, the unit currently wears the so-called "Dark Future" paint scheme.
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Two former Rio Grande GP40-2's (still sporting Grande Gold on most of the unit) sit idling at UP's 36th street yard. UP 1445 was DRGW 3129 unit about a year ago on November 1, 2005. UP 1352 has been "on the patch" for a bit longer, formerly DRGW 3097 until July 31, 2005.
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