At first glance, it almost looks as though UP decided to put a DC unit (SD70M) on a coal train! However, this is merely the Roper to North Yard manifest (MRONY-15) which runs daily. The hoppers were picked up in Grand Junction from the Terror Creek Turn the day before.
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Looking north at Fox Junction, the First Beer Run makes its way south on UP's Main. A great looking pair of SD60Ms are currently in charge of the train, making two rounds trips per days between Denver and Golden.
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You can't go wrong with the Warbonnet paint scheme! It was great when ATSF (and even BNSF) briefly brought the scheme back in the 1990s. This SD75M was one of the units lucky enough to get the Warbonnet scheme.
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A southbound coal load, waiting for a fresh crew, is tied down on the Lodo Siding northwest of Union Station. All of the buildings in the background have been constructed over the past ten years.
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As I was passing Union Station, I happened to notice the good old "Vomit Bonnet" in the Lodo Siding on the tail end of a southbound coal load. For those not familiar with this unique paint scheme, it was a test scheme conceived of after the BNSF merger. If a slightly different decision had been made, this could have been the scheme applied to all new units (instead o the Heritage scheme)!
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I noted a freshly-painted HLCX GP38-2 sitting near the shops at North Yard. This is an interesting unit in that it appears to be a GP40-2 (three radiator fans, etc), there are two exhaust stacks. This shows the un-turbocharged GP38-2 prime mover.
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