The MDENBAR-29 (Denver to Barstow, left) is slowly heading south on Main 1 while a southbound coal load sits without a crew, tied down in the siding just north of Walnut Street.
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Southbounds headed ofr the Joint Line will often request a track warrant when they are at Walnut Street. Walnut Street intersects with the tracks directly underneath Auraria Parkway, just barely east of I-25.
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Sedalia marks the location where the two mains change ownerships. BNSF 4479 is passing the crossover between the two mains as it moves from UP-owned track to BNSF-owned track.
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Under hazy thin clounds, BNSF 4479 south makes its way through Castle Rock. Another half mile down the road, and the train will be running parallel to I-25 and its Frontage Road for the next five miles on the way toward Larkspur.
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If you are familiar with the bridge on the southbound track still labeled "Santa Fe" to this day (just south of Larkspur), then you know right where this picture was taken! The covered hopper visible just behind the box car is just coming over that bridge.
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Sometime, when you are out on the Joint Line, you can get lucky enough to get a southbound and a northbound in the same shot. Such was the case on this day as BNSF 4479 (on the former ATSF grade; main one) "meets" with a northbound manifest (on the former DRGW grade; main two) just south of Larkspur.
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Spruce marks one of three locations on the Joint Line where ownership of the two main tracks changes between UP and BNSF. BNSF 4479 is just moving down into "the sag" as it changes from BNSF-owned track to UP-owned track on main one.
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Palmer Lake is not quite as high as it usually is, but the east shores of the frozen lake make for a nice foreground for the Denver to Barstow train heading south in the background.
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It is about a half hour after sunset as the signals at east Leyden turn on in anticipation of the approaching Ski Train.
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The Ski Train blasts past the east end of Leyden heading for Denver as the crossing gates at 80th Avenue go down.
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In this timed exposure shot (30 seconds), the crossing gates at Leyden go up after the Ski Train passes while the crossing gates at Simms (next crossing to the east) go down as the Ski Train approaches.
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