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Photo ID: 103572
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 141
Hillrose, CO
1945
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Subdivision
Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
At the east switch of Hillrose, a westbound unit grain train proceeds on a yellow signal. The "earth worm" (as these unit grain trains are often referred to) is will stop on the main at Hillrose to meet two eastbounds. One eastbound is a coal empty on the siding and the second is an empty just south of the siding, holding the main.
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Photo ID: 103573
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 141
Hillrose, CO
1669
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Subdivision
Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
Less than twenty minutes before sunset, the sun has come out from behind the clouds and an eastbound coal empty throttles up to leave the siding of North Hillrose to continue on to Sterling. The grain train it just met sits on the main, a pair of C44-9Ws are DPU'd on the end.
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Photo ID: 103574
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 141
Hillrose, CO
2185
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Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
There is an explosion of light from behind the clouds along the western horizon as the sun gets closer to setting. In the foreground, a coal empty proceeds east out of the siding at Hillrose.
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Photo ID: 103575
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 141
Hillrose, CO
1658
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Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
After meeting a westbound grain train at Hillrose, this coal empty heads toward Union, CO where it will receive a track warrant and continue on Union Pacific track to Sterling. There, it will turn north on the BNSF Angora Sub into Nebraska toward the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
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Photo ID: 103576
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 140
Hillrose, CO
1977
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Subdivision
Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
This shot caught my eye as I was watching this westbound coal empty heading into the siding at Hillrose. With the change off Daylight Savings Time the night before, the sun does set much earlier, but you can get some fantastic light right before sunset!
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Photo ID: 103577
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 140
Hillrose, CO
1601
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Subdivision
Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
In the last rays of the setting sun, an eastbound coal empty turns off the main track and into the siding at Hillrose. A westbound grain train sits on the main track. When the coal train clears, the grain train will continue.
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Photo ID: 103578
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
MP 140
Hillrose, CO
2242
(1 Comment Posted)
Subdivision
Railroad
Brush (BNSF) BNSF
The last shot of the day and, as it turns out, probably my favorite too! After meeting two eastbound coal empties at Hillrose, this unit grain train is heading west toward Brush and then Denver. Ahh, the end of Daylight Savings Time, when the sun is gone by 5:00pm!
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