UP 844 and train, the SCYDV-20, sit on the Inbound Main just north of York Street. As the train was waiting to use the wye on the Limon Subdivision, about two dozen local residents came out of their houses with cameras (or even just camera phones) to check out the commotion and get a few pictures.
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UP 844 puts up a bit of smoke as it slows to a stop on the Inbound Main just north of York Street and UP's 36th Street Yard. The train will have to hold to wait for authority to use a bit of the Limon Subdivision to wye the train and back into Union Station.
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Just north of York Street on the Inbound Main, UP 844 leads two new ES44ACs and 34 cars headed for Union Station. The equipment will be on display for the week during the Democratic National Convention being held in Denver.
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A company in Kanapolis, KS builds wind turbines. The bases for the turbines are shipped via rail from California. The bases are sent in the form of unit trains every couple of weeks (give or take). Here is one such train near the York Street grade crossing. It awaits a fresh crew to take it east on the KP into Kansas.
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This coal train loaded at the Energy Mine on the Craig Branch a few days earlier. In fact, after taking this picture, I realized I shot the exact same train three days earlier at Granby, heading west. You can see the picture here.
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This train was loaded at the Energy Coal Mine on the Craig Branch in the Colorado high country. Here, the train is coming off the Belt Industrial Lead toward 36th Street, where it will make a sharp left turn and head east on the Limon Subdivision.
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On their way into 36th Street Yard, these units are approaching York Street. Note the numbers on the units...UP 1348 and UP 1349! The units are former Rio Grande GP40-2's, DRGW 3126 and DRGW 3128 respectively. The units were both Rio Grande as recently as April 2005.
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Union Pacific contracted with Harsco Track Technologies to grind down some track. The track had come down off the Moffat and was working its way over to the KP Line east of Denver on this day. A former F40PH leads the griding train near York Street in Denver.
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