Every summer, Union Pacific runs its Cheyenne Frontier Days Steam Train between Denver, CO and Cheyenne, WY. Here, the train is leaving the siding of Brighton behind as it travels north of the Greeley Subdivision.
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An eastbound manifest on main two is rapidly approaching Cheyenne on the "Fast Track" in Wyoming.
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In the background, a track coming from Speer Jct joins the two main tracks at Borie and this eastbound coal load continues toward Cheyenne.
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An eastbound intermodal COFC train, led by two UP SD70Ms is running the "wrong way" on main one as it is approaching Cheyenne.
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This patched Southern Pacific SD40T-2 was in the middle of a lashup of various power on a manifest in Cheyenne.
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When EMD first released the SD60, they were given numbers with an "EMD" prefix. EMD 3 is one of the original SD60s that was first introduced in 1985. It was running as the last unit on the MDENLAU (Denver, CO to Laurel, MT) on BNSF's Front Range Subdivision.
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To avoid having BNSF's Front Range Sub from crossing UP's four main tracks using diamonds, a grade separation exists in Cheyenne. Here, a UP intermodal train crosses underneath a BNSF MDENLAU train!
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