An assortment of yard power - mainly GP15-1's - sit idling in UP's 36th Street Yard. There is also a string of road units (right side of the shot) that have been serviced and are ready to depart as well.
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We are getting closer and closer to Amtrak utilizing Union Station for the last time until the major transit project is complete. In the meantime, this is the building that Amtrak will use in Denver for it's passengers. It had been a light bulb distributor for years, but has now been taken over and repainted.
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The power on BNSF's Longmont Turn on this day is truly fantastic! A quartet of SD40-2's climb up the grade into Broomfield, pulling at 58 cars at milepost 17. As great as it was to watch, it was even more fantastic to listen too!
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As much as I love Cascade Green, I almost wish the lead unit here had been in the Heritage scheme just so it matched the other three SD40-2's in the set. However, I'm not complaining as the sight and sound of four EMD 645 engines running was beautiful! If you'd like to hear, I recorded a brief clip and posted it along with this shot. Click the link above.
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When I first went to Helper, UT in 1999, I saw nine Rio Grande SD40T-2's cut into the middle of a coal train as swing helpers for the climb up to Soldier Summit. The sound was amazing. It's great to see that 11 years later, the Dash-2 series is still in extremely wide use, even if it technically on a local (the Longmont Turn).
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