Amtrak 5 arrives at the Grand Junction, leaving the main track and entering the Depot Siding.
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After having received a track warrant from DS-80, SP 173 is leaving the west yard of Grand Junction for the North Fork Branch. The train has a warrant all the way to Roubideau, 44 miles away.
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UP 4371 sits on the siding at Palisade on the MRONY-08, awaiting the arrival of Amtrak and the clearing of maintenance of way.
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Patched Southern Pacific AC4400's are becoming more and more common. Here, two AC4400CW's, one UP and one primarily SP lead an eastbound coal load from a mine on the Northfork Subdivision in western Colorado.
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Two SD70M's sit on the east leg of the wye at Dotsero. The SD70M's are on the point of a work train that has been tied down on the wye for the night.
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EMDs new SD70ACe test units (GM 70 and GM 71) are seen crossing over the Colorado river on a bridge near Burns on the Dotsero Cutoff. The locomotives were undergoing road testing on the eastbound MGJNY.
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A loaded coal train approaches the siding of Range. The train will have to stop on the mainline for about two hours to effect repairs on the last unit on the back of the coal train.
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The siding of Allen is 14,250 feet long. In the 1980s, Rio Grande attempted to add a second main track through Glenwood Canyon. However, the difficulty in engineering and the expense involved prevented the project from being completed. The result of the project was a (near) three mile long siding.
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An eastbound coal load is running through Glenwood Canyon, parallel to the Colorado River.
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The eastbound California Zephyr is travelling along the Colorado River through Glenwood Canyon, just minutes after a station stop in Glenwood Springs.
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An eastbound coal train waits in the siding at Dell while Amtrak 5, the westbound California Zephyr, snakes its way west out of the west end of the Dell siding.
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This eastbound coal train is following the Colorado River, working its way toward the siding of Dell. After Dell, the coal train will go through Bond, CO on its trip east toward Denver.
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This coal train is passing by the depot in Glenwood Springs, CO on its way east toward Denver. The depot is off to the left, and the bridge in the background takes cars and pedestrians across Interstate 70 and the Colorado River.
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An eastbound BNSF manifest waits in the siding of Lacy, CO (about 3 miles west of Rifle, CO) as Amtrak 5, The California Zephyr, speeds by at nearly 80 miles per hour heading west toward Grand Junction. Note the conductor from the BNSF freight on the ground giving Amtrak a roll-by.
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The American Orient Express, as seen from I-70 near water level, is working its way east trhough Glenwood Canyon late in the day.
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