UP's only steam train excursion for 2025 backs up on the Belt Industrial Lead alongside Copeland Lake, a small retaining pond on the north side of the Belt Industrial lead, just east of I-25.
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UP 1616 was recently painted in this Abraham Lincoln tribute scheme. The SD70M was previously UP 4015, which frequently travelled around with the Big Boy.
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UP's steam program really is a class act. All the way down to placing flags on the nose of the Big Boy as it rolls on its excursions. The American flag and Colorado flag looks fantastic on the point of the train.
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UP 4014 slowly crosses over the South Platte river on the Belt Industrial Lead. The Big Boy is considered a high/wide move, and as such, it is restricted to 10 MPH when it crosses over this particular bridge.
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With a bit of brutal backlighting, the Rocky Mountaineer starts yet another trip west, passing by the Stock Yards (an interchange with the short line Denver and Rock Island) on the Belt Line.
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The morning Rocky Mountaineer makes its way across the South Platte River on UP's Belt Industrial Lead. The Belt line connects UP's Greeley Sub (and 36th Street Yard) with the Moffat Sub (and North Yard).
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UP's North Yard, CO to Green River, WY manifest sits on the Belt Lead to the right as the morning Rocky Mountaineer heads west on Bypass 2 to the left. Units on both trains are kicking up quite a bit of visible exhaust this morning!
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UP 9795 crosses over a very low South Platte River, a 5500-foot train in tow. UP 9795 was actually originally delivered to Chicago North Western in April 1994. Within the past few years, UP has started a rebuild program, taking some old DC traction motor units, and rebuilding them as AC traction motor units. This is a perfect example!
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After coming off of UP's Greeley Sub, the MGRNY is at the far east end of the 4½ mile Belt Industrial Lead. The train has just passed underneath BNSF's Brush Sub, and is about to pass underneath Brighton Blvd on its journey toward North Yard.
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A pair of units sit on the tail end of a westbound oil train. These DPUs will assist the 6,600 foot train on the journey west to Utah. And, perhaps more importantly, on the journey east.
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UP 4014, UP 9625, a handful of passenger cars, 11 freight cars, and a caboose back up on the Belt Industrial Lead. The train will back up all the way across the Belt Line to UP Junction to join the Greeley Sub and then proceed north to Cheyenne.
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At Utah Junction, UP 4014 crosses BNSF's Front Range Subdivision on the Belt Industrial Lead. The train is actually backing up in this shot, making it way (backward) to the Greeley Sub to depart north to Cheyenne.
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A pair of UP SD70Ms...the same that the Rocky Mountaineer has borrowed for the last few seasons...are once again leading the Rocky Mountaineer west across the Belt Line. It is currently passing Copeland Lake just east of I-25.
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The Sunday Rocky Mountaineer is headed west across the Belt Industrial Lead, working on getting out of Denver for its journey west to Moab. The train passes through some pretty industrial areas before getting to the western suburbs, leaving the city behind.
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This Phase 2 SD70M is crossing over the South Platte River as the fourth unit on an eastbound (soon to be northbound) manifest. The top of the unit has definitely seen some better days as rust has set in across the gray.
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