UP 6439 leads an eastbound coal load through thick fog at the west end of Clay. It is not uncommon to find extremely cold, winter-type weather in Colorado, even a week into April.
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A thick layer of frost covered nearly everything on this particular April morning. The temperature outside is 25 degrees as this coal load heads east (away from the photographer) through Clay.
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In addition to freezing cold weather and a lot of frost, this April storm brought a lot of fog to the Denver area. The fog was so bad, trains could not see signal aspects until they were a few cars lengths away. Such was the case for this westbound coal empty, creeping along at 10 MPH until the clear signal at west Clay was in sight.
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I thought the American Flag looked good through the frost-covered trees near the west switch of Clay. This is the third unit on a westbound coal empty trying to negotiate with the fog!
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UP 5588, a C44AC-CTE, brings up the back of a coal empty coming over the west switch of Clay. White was the theme of the day as there was fresh snow on the ground and thick fog in the air.
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Conditions on this April day were extremely interesting. There was a thick fog above 5700 feet and the temperature was only 25 degrees. Snow from the night before had frozen onto the trees and the plants, as seen near the west switch of Clay. UP 7114 leads a coal empty west at 15 MPH.
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At the far south end of North Yard (in Denver), you'll find Fox Junction. Here, UP has two main tracks that head south. One heads for the Joint Line and the other collides with BNSF tracks at Prospect Junction and lead to Union Station. I have always liked the dwarf signals found here at Fox Junction, this particular signal found on the UP Outbound Track.
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This is only the second SD70M-2 that I've seen up to the date of the photo. A bit of a rare sight in Denver, a Norfolk Southern unit passes through town on BNSF's Provo to Denver manifest.
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A sign of the conditions of the day, snow blows off the ballast and the cars as this northbound HDENLAU-07 moves quickly north near Lower Church Lake. The train was moving at 48 MPH on the approach to Broomfield.
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