A nice treat to start off a Thursday. Other than the Phase 5 P42 second in the consist, this Zephyr has a matching set of Phase 4 equipment! The Phase 4 Heritage unit led the train west for this trip.
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While not my personal favorite of Amtrak's scheme, I still prefer the Phase 4 scheme to the current Phase 5 scheme. Amtrak's Phase 4 Heritage Unit was leading the Zephyr west on the second day of Spring.
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Empty rails? Not quite! If you look off in the distance, you can see the westbound California Zephyr moving along on the main at Clay. The bridge in the foreground runs over Indiana Street just west of Leyden.
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So close, and yet so far away! The (partially obscured) manifest in the foreground is the MRONY. Off in the distance, you can see the last three Superliners on the Zephyr. If the Zephyr had been 45 seconds slower or the MRONY 45 seconds faster, I could have had a nice shot of both trains. As it stands, the two trans are still nearly 10 rail-miles apart and in the same frame!
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These days, it is rare to find anything other than GE AC's on the MNYRO or MRONY. So when I heard this SD70ACe was on the point of the MRONY, a picture was definitely in order. Here, said SD70ACe leads the train over Indiana Street toward the west switch of Leyden.
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More often than not, UP will run manifests with DPUs. So, I was a little surprised to find the MRONY with six units on the point and no DPUs. Here, a single SD70ACe leads a quintet of GE ACs in to the siding at Leyden. Here, it will meet its counterpart and a BNSF westbound manifest.
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