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Monday, April 8, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over)
Denver, CO
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93 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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Here is a scene that looks substantially different than it did 30 years ago. Back then, the two tracks on the left did not exist at all. They were added in the early 2000s to accommodate the huge number of coal trains that ran on the Moffat back then. Then, about 15 years ago, the bridge in the background was built to take Pecos Street up and over the tracks. Here, in 2024, a UP manifest backs away from the camera and in to North Yard.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over)
Denver, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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UP 3032 is one of the 87 SD70ACe-T4s that UP currently has on the roster. Indeed, one of the only SD70ACe-T4s that actually exists in the United States. To say the EPA Tier-4 units are unpopular with North American railroads would be an understatement. Railroads are, instead, choosing to invest in rebuilding older power rather than buy these newer, more complex, and more expensive units. UP 3032 is working on backing the train in to North Yard.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over)
Denver, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Amtrak
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AMTK 126 approaches the signal bridge at Pecos Street, running on the North Yard Siding. You may notice that there does not appear to be a signal over the North Yard siding. That is indeed correct. There are CTC crossovers from Main 3 to Main 2 to Main 1 at Pecos. But there is no CTC-controlled crossover from the siding to Main 3, so this is not a control point on the siding.
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Sunday, February 19, 2023
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over)
Denver, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Amtrak
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If you look closely at the last two Superliner, you'll see the train has just crossed over from Main 3 to Main 2 at the Pecos Street crossover. When coal trains were "a dime a dozen" on the Moffat, you could almost always count on finding at least one, if not two, coal trains here on Main 1 and Main 2. The Pecos Street crossover was built to allow the mid-train helpers to be easily cut out of the coal loads. With coal having all but vanished from the Moffat, these tracks spend most days empty and silent.
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Friday, January 4, 2019
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over)
Denver, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Amtrak
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On a beautiful January morning, the California Zephyr approaches Pecos Crossover on Main 3. In mid-2018, Amtrak executives had said that no long distance Amtrak trains would run over any stretch of track that did not have Positive Train Control (PTC) implemented. Fortunately, they backed down on that as several train, including the Zephyr, would have been impacted. The former Grande between Grand Junction and Helper does not have PTC (and UP currently has no plans to add it).
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