RMRX 8021 and RMRX 8020, leading the westbound Rocky Mountaineer "Rockies to the Red Rocks", throttle up on the climb up the roughly 2% grade from the base of Coal Creek Canyon to Tunnel 1.
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HZRX 187 is a rather unique engine. It was built as an SD18 in the early 1960s. There were only 114 such units produced by EMD. 60 of those were actually built as export units, meaning only 54 units were in the US. It has since been rebuilt and is now classified as an SD18M.
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HZRX is a leased SD40M-2 from Horizon Rail Leasing. It started life decades ago as an SD45 and has now found life after Class 1 railroads.
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The engineer of the westbound Zephyr gives a friendly wave out the window as the train moves at track speed up toward Tunnel 1.
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Just west of the west end of Eisele (Clay), the morning Zephyr is right on time as it continues its journey west. At this point, roughly 22 miles west of Denver Union Station, you can clearly see the downtown skyline in the distance as the Zephyr rounds the bend toward Blue Mountain Road crossing.
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Despite being halfway through June, the front range of the Rockies is still extremely lush and green, as seen here with the westbound Zephyr (plus two private cars) wrapping around the curve west of Eisele (Clay) and toward the grade crossing at Blue Mountain.
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