UP 1982 and a pair of GEs lead their loaded oil train through Rainbow Cut on the main at Plain. The train has made rather slow progress on the journey east. At one point, it only moved 45 miles over the course of five days!
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The morning Zephyr, running just about on time, is about to enter Rainbow Cut on the main at Plain. Rainbow Cut got its name, appropriately, from the various colors of the rock revealed when the cut was created.
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You can tell that the siding at Plain has not been used in the last 12 hours or so as the rail head on the siding is completely covered by snow. Meanwhile, on the main, an on time Zephyr heads west through Rainbow Cut.
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Coming through Rainbow Cut, this BNSF manifest is the only eastbound currently on the eastern slope of the Moffat and the only train at all between Plain and Denver. Clear signals ahead...at least until Leyden where the train would wait for about an hour due to the Been Train.
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The engineers side of the SD90MAC affectionately named "Shamu" for its colorful paint scheme.
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"Shamu", a 6000 HP, 4-stroke EMD SD90MAC sits at the end of a "test" coal train run on the Moffat on this particular Valentines Day.
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Valentines Day 1998 found EMD testing out their brand new 6000 HP SD90MAC's on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. UP 8502-8505 were pulling half a loaded coal train west. The end DPU unit was UP 8504, wearing a special scheme nicknamed "Shamu".
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With the UP/SP merger coming less that a year earlier, this was still a new site to see on the Moffat in 1997! BNSF trackage rights trains heading both east and west. Here, an MDVSTJ (Denver to Stockton) manifest makes its way west on the main track at Plain.
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