Photo ID: 105106 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Barr Brighton, CO 1666 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Being an "EMD guy", I really love how reliable old EMDs prove themselves to be. Railroads continue to rebuild and use EMD power that is 40+ years old! Here, the Hudson Turn sports two GP38-2. The first unit receive a repaint after its last rebuild, and sports the New Image scheme. The second units still wears the original Heritage scheme. While subtle, this shot clearly shots that the Heritage scheme did indeed use a very dark green, whereas the New Image scheme just uses black. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105107 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Barr Brighton, CO 1799 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The Hudson Turn slows to a crawl as it approaches the CO-2 overpass west of Barr. There is a coal load holding the main east of Irondale (the next siding to the west) and, as a result, the local here is approaching a red intermediate, the tail end of the coal load just on the opposite side. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105108 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 66th Avenue Arvada, CO 1570 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The eastbound California Zephyr, running ahead of schedule, approaches the grade crossing at 66th Avenue. Both Amtrak and the (special) Ski Train were set to depart Fraser around the same time. The Zephyr got to run first and is about 40 minutes ahead of the Ski Train. The time difference is because the Ski Train had to wait for the Zephyr to clear the Moffat Tunnel and then wait for the tunnel to vent before it got its turn. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105109 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 66th Avenue Arvada, CO 1685 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Winter Park Express There are parts of the country (outside of the Northeast Corridor) in which multiple Amtrak trains run on the same tracks daily. One such example being the Silver Star and Silver Meteor in Florida. While this is a special running of the Ski Train, it could pass as just another Amtrak train. So I thought it would be fun to capture both this train and the California Zephyr from the same perspective (on the same evening). The Zephyr passed here about 40 minutes earlier on its journey in to town. Incidentally, the power on the Ski Train is reversed from the morning, with AMTK 42 trailing. This is because the wye at Tabernash is out of service. The power had to run around the train at Fraser, placing AMTK 187 on the point. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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