After waiting for more than an hour for the (rerouted) California Zephyr to show up at Carr, this northbound coal train is finally ready to continue north toward Cheyenne, leaving Carr on a clear signal. Note the end DPU's starting to shove on the rear of the train.
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An Amtrak F59PH, which typically lives in California, is being sent to Chicago on the California Zephyr. I never did hear exactly why it was making the trip back to Chicago, but it made for a nice (and unexpected!) addition to the Zephyr.
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The eastbound (geographic southbound) Zephyr is accelerating on the main at Carr. The train is meeting a coal load on the siding behind the photographer. The Zephyr will shortly reached speeds near 75 MPH on its trip south to Denver.
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A problem with a bridge in between Provo and Salt Lake City, UT has resulted in Amtrak being rerouted through Wyoming for a few days. Here, the Zephyr is headed south on UP's Greeley Sub at Carr. The lead P42DC does not have cab signals, so UP 4473 was added as a pilot for the trip from Salt Lake to Denver.
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While the engineers side of UP 9871 (ex-DRGW 5401) looked practically pristine, the conductors side looks like this. Taggers did a real number on this Tunnel Motor...unfortunately.
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This UP funeral train crosses the 10th street grade crossing in Greeley, right next to the Greeley Freight Station Museum. The train was moving fairly slowly by the museum and it drew a bit of a crowd out too!
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In this string of 17 tunnel motors headed for retirement, there was a single patched Espee unit. UP 8726 was originally delivered as SP 8526 in December 1978.
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Even though it has received a full repaint, you can tell that this was originally a Rio Grande tunnel motor because it has a chopped fuel tank. The space between the lead truck and the fuel tank was unique to the Rio Grande T-2's.
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DRGW 5342 is disguised as UP 2882 as it heads for retirement at Burnham in Denver.
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A roster shot of UP 9871 (originally DRGW 5401) on its way to retirement. This unit spent a lot of time in Colorado before it was patched.
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A 300mm shot of a UP "funeral train" coming down the main at Greeley, CO. All but the first three units on this train are being retired by UP and are headed for Burnham in Denver.
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A overhead roster shot of UP 2882 heading south through Greeley. This was once DRGW 5342, but has obviously undergone some changes. In additional to being patched, note the class lights and Mars lights have been removed.
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As a northbound empty soda ash train leaving Greeley on a clear signal, a funeral train consisting of 24 units heads south through the siding.
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A northbound empty soda ash train rolls north on the main track at Greeley. The train is waiting for a southbound which will run down the siding.
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A look at a funeral train which is transporting 21 units (17 tunnel motors) from Ogden, UT to Denver, CO. Once reaching Denver, the units will be moved to Burnham and placed in storage until they can be auctioned off.
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