The Colorado River is continuing to grow in size as we continue to move west in Colorado. The Rocky Mountaineer "Rockies to the Red Rocks", on the main at De Beque, is moving west toward its next station stop, just outside of Moab, UT.
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The scenery through Grand Valley in western Colorado is simply amazing. Employees of the Rocky Mountaineer are enjoying the views on this test run of the train, which is set to start another season of revenue runs in a couple of weeks. The train just passed a clear (green) signal at the east switch of De Beque.
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A Canadian National ES44DC leads a westbound oil train at De Beque on the Glenwood Springs Subdivision. If you look closely, you can see a white "D" (made out of rocks) on the hillside in the distance. The "D", of course, represents the town of De Beque.
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An empty BNSF oil train is running on clear signals as it heads west on the main at De Beque, just about halfway between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction. A rare visitor from the north leads the train on its journey.
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Once upon a time, before the construction of I-70, traffic headed west in Colorado toward Utah had to traverse the two lanes of US-6. These days, it is really only used by local traffic (cars are few and far between). Near the east end of De Beque, the eastbound Zephyr passes over the essentially deserted US-6.
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A extraordinarily short California Zephyr (two P42DCs and six Superliners) makes its way past a frozen marsh at the east end of De Beque.
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An SD70M makes for an interesting (and somewhat rare) visitor on the point of the westbound California Zephyr. With some snow-powdered mountains in the distance, the train is rounding the curve just east of De Beque. You can see a few vehicles on I-70 in the distance.
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