Amtrak 6 waits at Denver Union Station for the last passengers to board before heading east toward Chicago. Close to three hours of slow orders in between Reno, NV and Salt Lake City, UT currently cause Number 6 to regularly run anywhere between three and six hours late by the time they reach Denver. Arriving only two and a half hours late tonight, they were practically running early!
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The back of Union Station has been nicely decorated with lights for the Christmas Season. Unfortunately, Amtrak stops too far to the east to be able to really capture both the train and the lights in the same shot.
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Union Station is all ready for Christmas! The decorating crew, as always, did a wonderful job with the front of Union Station looking down 17th Street in Denver. I particularly like the Christmas Tree of lights on the flag pole in the front.
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This is a shot that sounds as though it won't be possible for too much longer. The Union Station redevelopment project is going to call for the "commuter tracks" - including Amtrak and the Ski Train - to be lower under ground level within the next five to ten years.
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Nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon and Amtrak 5 (the westbound California Zephyr) is just changing crews and preparing to depart westbound. Car problems and bad weather led to the nearly eight hour delay.
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UP 1989 joined a variety of rolling stock including a hopper, tank car, gondola, boxcar, and intermodal equipment at Denver Union Terminal. The equipment was here for the Wheels and Motion Transportation Fair, a job fair which took place between 8am and 3pm during the day.
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UP 1989, the Rio Grande Heritage Unit, sits tied down on station track four at Denver Union Station. The unit was washed at Burnham two days earlier specifically for the Wheels and Motion Transportation Fair which took place on this day.
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Normally, I would never include a picture in the gallery with such an obvious and glaring eye sore obstructing the subject of the photo. However, considering it was the Rio Grande Heritage Unit (and considering it may never be at DUT again), I took the shot! Unit was on track four at the station for the Wheels and Motion Transporation Fair.
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UP 1989 makes a visit to Union Station in Denver for the Wheels and Motion Transportation Fair. UP 1989 was shut down and tied down with a handful of other cars including box cars, hoppers, and intermodal equipment on tracks three and four.
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Passengers work their way down the platform at Union Station as the Ski Train prepares for its first run west of the 2006 Summer Season. This scene has changed a lot from twenty years ago! The bridge in the foreground is the HOV/Bus ramp that goes to and from Denver/I-25.
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Three days earlier, this trains (without the SD70M), made its way west on the Moffat up the Craig Branch to Steamboat Springs (click here for pictures). After spending some time there at an Operation Lifesaver event, the train returned to Denver to prepare for a similar trip to Grand Junction later this week.
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What were once warehouses used for industries are now upscale lofts in much of LoDo (Lower Downtown). Two of these lofts sit behind 9389 in this shot as 9389 sits on the passenger special on Track Three at Denver Union Station.
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A five car BNSF business train (for Matt Rose, the President and CEO of BNSF) sits quietly at Denver Union Station on Track Three. The train would shortly depart for Alliance, Nebraska via the Brush Subdivision.
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Getting into the station early on this morning, Amtrak 5 is preparing to head west out of Union Station.
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With its 67th season in the books, the Ski Train rests on track two at Denver Union Station. Note the wonderful painting of the Rio Grande SD45s hanging on the wall in the Kansas!
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