Hooray! A GE unit running the way I remember from my childhood! The second unit in this consist was having some issues and putting out quite a bit of exhaust as this southbound manifest works out of the Littleton Trench.
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This is a shot that deserves the title "The Right Place at the Right Time"! A southbound Light Rail train approaches the camera as a northbound train sneaks past heads toward Union Station. The Light Rail trains were just a bonus as I was waiting on the BNSF manifest in the distance!
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With the sun getting rather low in the western sky, the Warbonnet leading this manifest finds a sunny spot as the train climbs out of the Littleton Trench about a mile away from the end of CTC and the start of ABS and Track Warrants.
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At the south end of the Littleton Trench, the sun was finally able to break through the clouds, bringing some great Spring sunlight to this southbound manifest, running through the Trench on Main 2. Imagine, a trio of standard (Spartan) cab EMDs on a mainline freight, on a class one railroad in 2010.
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It took crews about 48 hours to cleanup, repair and reopen the tracks through the Littleton Trench after the derailment on January 17, 2009. A little over a week later, a coal load heads south on Main 3, leaving the trench behind. A couple sets of Herzog trains work on Main 1 in the distance.
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The last five cars from the derailment of the "Stinky Slinky" are being brought out of the Littleton Trench using two tractors. The one closest to the camera is pushing and the one in the distance is ensuring they don't run away. From right to left, the tracks are southbound Light Rail, northbound Light Rail, Main 1, Main 2 and Main 3.
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One of the derailed tank cars is being pushed by a tractor (along with four other cars) out of the Littleton Trench on Main 2. Some of these tank cars don't have anything that even comes close to resembling a coupler!
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Three new wheel sets are being brought into the trench on Main 1. Since there is a downhill slope into the trench, the CAT just stayed ahead of the wheel sets and let them free-roll down into the trench, keeping them from going too fast.
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A 470mm shot looking up the Littleton trench from the south end. Three tank cars have been re-railed and placed on Main 2. Note that there is quite a bit of damage on the northbound Light Rail track.
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