DRGW GP40-2 #3118 is the second of four units on the Rocky Local. The train is currently backing up (left to right in the picture) across Colorado Highway 72. DRGW 3118 has unforunately been "tagged" with some graffiti, but the good guys at Burnham tried to clean as much off as possible.
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A late Amtrak 6 (only an hour and a half) passes "Chemical" (about 15 miles west of Denver). The bright green light near the left side of the picture is the first intermediate signal west of Leyden.
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A westbound coal empty with silver aluminum hoppers enters Barbara's Gulch just east of the siding of Rocky. Coal Creek Canyon is engulfed in shadows in the background.
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A unit coal train led by two C44AC-CTE's (both with wings and flags) passes the intermediate signal between Leyden and Rocky known as Chemical. The shadows were just barely below the rail head for this shot!
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The shortest tunnel along the (former) Grande's Tunnel District is Tunnel 29. It is just 79 feet in length! An eastbound coal load wraps through a small S-curve and passes thruogh the short tunnel.
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Heavy snow falls on a frozen Colorado River and an eastbound coal load, slowly reaching the east end of Byers Canyon. The train will take the siding at Sulphur to wait for a westbound coal train currently coming through Granby.
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It is late in the day as this westbound coal empty passes slowly through the siding of Rocky. The train will stop at the west end to wait for a meet with an eastbound coal load.
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A single SP AC400CW (#354) is the sole DPU on this westbound empty coal train. It is becoming harder and harder to find unpatched SP power.
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There is a small lake along the tracks not far west of Cliff in the area known as Pactolus. This lake was once used for cutting ice blocks for shipment by rail, as well as for public ice skating. Now, however, it just sits along the Moffat main line. This coal empty passes a clear intermediate signal about a half mile east of tunnel 30.
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The first run of the 2004-2005 Winter Ski Train wraps through Little Ten Curve on its journey west toward Winter Park. Since the end of the last summer season, the Ski Train now owns the three F40PHs (they were on a lease-to-buy deal with Amtrak) and the units have been re-lettered SKTX (from AMTK).
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The snow has let up a little bit as this eastbound coal load exits Barbara's Gulch. The train will get a straight shot (green signals) into town.
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On a very cold November afternoon, this eastbound coal load is just 15 miles away from North Yard. The sun has just about set by now at 4:40pm.
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An empty westbound coal train, led by UP 6663, enters the siding at Rocky to meet with an eastbound coal load that was just coming around Big Ten Curve at the time this photo was taken.
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With Stanley Lake in the background, this BNSF manifest is exiting Barbara's Gulch and entering the siding of Rocky on its journey west towards Stockton, CA.
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On a beautiful morning on the last Saturday in July, a westbound coal empty (whose power was cut off and run around to the east end of the train) sits tied down on the siding at Rocky, awaiting the arrival of the Ski Train.
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