A westbound rail train snakes its way out of Barbara's Gulch and in to the east end of Rocky.
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I have always found rail trains to be very interesting. It is cools how each rail stretches from the start of the flat cars (the green cars) to the end. The rails simply bend as the train goes around curves.
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A UP SD70M and a BNSF ES44DC lead a westbound rail train through the curves at Blue Mountain on its journey west. It is ultimately headed for California.
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Rail winds its way through S-Curves at Blue Mountain Road. A rail train can carry 40 rails, each rail being 1/4 of a mile in length. That means this train is ten miles in length.
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It is cool how the continuous welded rail on rail trains spans across each of the flat cars in the consist. Here, you can see the rail running directly across these two rail cars, coupled together.
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The tail end of a rail train makes its way up toward Tunnel 1. I liked the fact that a single (empty) Rio Grande hopper brought up the end of the rail train as it works its way over the Moffat.
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