UP 1989 gets away from its captive night service on the Joint Line and heads west on the MNYRO! One of these days, it might even appear on the point....or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
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Five GE ACs and UP 1989 (the lone EMD unit on the train) lead up the MNYRO at Leyden. Most of these units - included UP 1989 - will be taken off the train at Grand Junction, most likely to serve as mid-train swing helpers on eastbound coal loads.
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Almost a mile west of Leyden, along CO-72, six units are leading up the MNYRO on its journey west. The Rio Grande Heritage Unit just got a wash two days earlier, so it definitely stands out!
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The further west (i.e. the higher in altitude) you get, the deeper into the clouds you get! The MNYRO makes its way through a very foggy Barbara's Gulch, UP 1989 second up on the train.
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Union Pacific has done a pretty darn good job in keeping the Heritage Unit clean (at least most of the time). It has been almost three years since UP 1989 was uncovered and it still looks as good as it did for its first run west on the Moffat.
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The MNYRO is approaching the west end of Barbara's Gulch where the train will find a green signal at the east end of Rocky. It seems appropriate that a UP unit, the DRGW Heritage unit, and a (patched) Espee unit lead up the train. Now if the Heritage unit was on the point and the Espee unit wasn't patched, that'd be a whole lot better!
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