A northbound BNSF rail train has an unexpected leader! UP 7354 is leading the loaded train on this Sunday afternoon. At some point in the future - not entire clear on when that will be - there will be commuter rail tracks in this shot too.
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A wide angle shot of a blade train coming around the fill in Westminster. In the distance, you can see the tallest building in Westminster, the Westin hotel.
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A blade train comes around the curve on the fill at Westminster. About seven more miles and this crew will getting off the train, replaced by a new crew that will take the train to La Junta, CO.
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It's great having Longs Peak, one of Colorado's numerous 14ers, right on the Front Range. From Littleton to La Salle, it's always fun to try to get a picture with Longs Peak in the frame! Here, the "stinky slinky" is crossing Old Wadsworth Blvd in Westminster with Longs Peak standing tall in the background.
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A pair of Warbonnets, both sporting a couple of orange components (unfortunately), leads a southbound baretable just south of Broomfield. The train is about to pass underneath US-36 near Church Ranch Lake.
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It is a bit of a brisk morning out as this BNSF double stack starts pulling north along Church Ranch Lake. The train had been waiting here so as not to block any grade crossing until the southbound they were going to meet reached Broomfield. Now that said southbound had reached Broomfield, it is time to go!
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As a blade train wraps around the fill in Westminster, commuters work to get through the construction on Wadsworth Blvd. The road has been under construction for a couple months as CDOT works to repave the road, changing it from asphalt to concrete in the process.
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It about a quarter after eight in the morning and this pair of Warbonnets brings a "blade train" around the big fill in Westminster. The blades will be used on wind turbines at a wind farm.
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BNSF has repaired the flooding damage done to the St Joseph Subdivision in the Omaha area. However, the Napier and Omaha Subdivisions are still out of service, so coal empties will likely continue on the Front Range Sub throughout September. Here, one such reroute is stopped near Church Ranch Lake waiting for a southbound at Broomfield.
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I always enjoy running across the occasional "Retro Belle" SD70ACe. I'm really happy that Kansas City Southern has reintroduced this classic scheme as I find it to be one of the sharpest schemes on railroads today.
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There has been massive flooding in the Omaha, NE area this summer. Consequently, BNSF has rerouted a lot of traffic through Colorado. As a part of the reroutes, several coal empties have run north on the Front Range Sub. Here, one waits for the dispatcher to allow the train to proceed into Broomfield for a meet.
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A northbound rerouted coal empty sits on the the fill in Westminster. As it turns out, this trio of SD70ACes are actually the DPU units on the tail end of this train on a pleasant July afternoon.
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When I first went to Helper, UT in 1999, I saw nine Rio Grande SD40T-2's cut into the middle of a coal train as swing helpers for the climb up to Soldier Summit. The sound was amazing. It's great to see that 11 years later, the Dash-2 series is still in extremely wide use, even if it technically on a local (the Longmont Turn).
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As much as I love Cascade Green, I almost wish the lead unit here had been in the Heritage scheme just so it matched the other three SD40-2's in the set. However, I'm not complaining as the sight and sound of four EMD 645 engines running was beautiful! If you'd like to hear, I recorded a brief clip and posted it along with this shot. Click the link above.
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While a nice pair of E-units might look a bit better, this matching pair of ES44DC's look pretty good on the point of this Officer's Special coming around the Westminster Fill. After a crew change in Denver, the special will continue south to La Junta.
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