Fall looks and feels more like winter as a UP officer's special heads west out of Leyden. It is lightly raining and is 30°F outside. The headlights from the lead unit glowing in the wintery fog.
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UP 1943, Union Pacific's SD70ACe painted in honor of the Armed Forces, leads an officer's special west on the Moffat on a chilly and overcast October morning. The train will spend the night in Grand Junction and will return to Denver tomorrow.
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About once per year (on average), UP runs an officer's special over the Moffat. A freezing October day in 2018 found such a special departing North Yard at 0800 sharp, headed west. Here, the train is west of Leyden with UP 1943 on the point just 20 minutes after departing the North Yard storage yard.
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An SD70ACe (UP 1943) and an SD70ACe-T4 lead a 17 car officer's special through low hanging clouds at the east switch of Plain.
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UP 1943 leads a UP officer's special west on the main at Plain. The headlights reflect through the lightly falling rain as the temperature hangs around 30°F. DS-80 will do his best to keep the train moving quickly toward Grand Junction. At this point at Plain, the train has clear signals all the way to Tabernash!
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