An eastbound coal load quickly makes it was east out of the east end of Troublesome. At this point, the train was probably moving along at 45-50 MPH. A lot faster than the Front Range!
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Unfortunately the sun was not quite far enough to the west to light up this eastbound as I'd hoped. However, this S-Curve east of Flat along Parshall, CO made for a nice picture anyway.
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A loaded coal train departs east out of Sulphur. Fresh ribbon rail and tie plates litter the side of the track in preparation for a huge MOW effort that starts the day after this picture was taken. Amtrak would be routed through Wyoming during this effort!
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Amtrak, now running over two hours late after getting stuck behind a stalled out train at Clay, approaches the east switch of Fraser. I thought the pile of wood in the foreground made for a very photogenic shot along with the mountains in the background.
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An ongoing project west of Craig, CO involving the construction of a gas pipeline has required several unit pipe trains coming up the mountain westbound over the Moffat. It is a great change of scenery from the normal traffic! Here, one such train sits in the siding at Rollins awaiting a fresh crew from Denver.
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It is getting harder and harder to find unpatched Espee power anywhere in Colorado, let alone on the point anymore! SP 335 leads a westbound coal empty past the intermediate between Clay and Plain at the base of Coal Creek Canyon late in the day.
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UP 7322 heads almost directly into the sun through a cut just east of Parshall, CO. If you look closely, you can see the back end of the train working its way along the base of the mountains in the distance.
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The various angles in this picture make it extremely interesting. You can't see a horizon, but you can see lines of mountains and hills running at all different angles. When you look at the image one way, you'd swear it needed to be rotated to the right...but it is actually perfectly level!
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A very late-running Amtrak 5 crosses over Elk Creek Road a few hundred feet east of the east switch of Fraser. It is amazing to think that four months ago, the ground was completely covered by snow right here!
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After assisting a unit pipe train a couple dozen miles east at Clay, the MNYRO-16 now makes its way west through Winter Park. The train still had plenty of power to make it up the hill on the east side without any problems. Now, it is all down hill for quite some time to come!
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It is getting late in the day as UP 7322 heads east past the west switch of Rollins. A bit of smoke is coming off the brake shoes of the coal load as the engineer works his magic, keeping the load under control down the hill.
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A coal train bound for the Joint Line (and eventually Texas) meets a unit pipe train at Rollins. The pipe train is headed for Craig, CO where a new natural gas pipeline is under construction.
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