Less than five minutes before the sun would dip behind the mountains to the west, the westbound MNYRO approaches a clear signal at West Leyden. The train has a trio of brand new SD70ACe-T4s on the head end. These units are compliant with the EPA's Tier-4 standards for emissions. It has taken EMD several years to develop these units!
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It is after 8pm and we are getting close to the longest day of the year (in the Denver area, anyway) as the westbound North Yard to Roper manifest knocks down the signal at the west end of Leyden. Getting the north side of a train lit here at West Leyden is possible between (roughly) April 10th and August 20th. The rest of the year, the sun is too far to the south to light the scene.
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In two minutes, this scene will lose all of its direct sunlight! This MNYRO has six units on the head end and another two DPU'd on the back. That is because the train is roughly 9,000 feet in length. That has been UP's philosophy lately with the manifests between Denver and Roper. Instead of running them six days a week, they are running them three days a week, but doubling their length.
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