A trio of unit are the power for this westbound container train at Crescent. This is actually a military move, as those containers contain military equipment. UP routed the special over the Moffat. It is headed for the San Francisco area.
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A special train consisting entirely of containers makes for a rare site on the Moffat on the last day of May. The train started in Pratt, KS and is headed for Port Chicago, CA (in the San Francisco area). UP decided to route it over the Moffat instead of up and on the Overland.
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A very unusual site on the Moffat these days, a westbound contain train leaves Leyden, starting the climb up the hill. The train was called for 10:30am, but it took 5 1/2 hours before it finally departed North Yard.
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The head end of the westbound Zephyr is about to duck in to Tunnel 1 as it climbs its way up from the base of Coal Creek Canyon.
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An interesting scene in which the Zephyr happens to draw a light that splits the image between being lit and being cast in shadows as the train climbs toward Tunnel 1.
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Unfortunately for passengers, they will run out of sunlight in another 90 minutes and make most of the run to Glenwood Springs (and points west) in the dark. However, while unfortunate for the passengers, the evening lighting is really fantastic for pictures that would not normally be lit in such a manner!
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Every once in awhile, something happens that causes the Zephyr to be really late. This is one such example as the Zephyr is 10 hours late and rolling through awesome evening light at Blue Mountain. A BNSF manifest derailed in Illinois and, as a result, the Zephyr had to pull all the way back to Chicago and get re-routed on a different subdivision around the derailment.
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It is two minutes past 7 o'clock in the evening as the westbound Zephyr rounds the curve out of Eisele and approaches the grade crossing at Blue Mountain. Some fantastic lighting for the late CZ.
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It would figure that the one cloud in the sky that could get in the way and cast a shadow on the scene, did get in the way and cast a shadow just as a very late Zephyr rolls west. Looks like the guys in the cab have taken notice of the camera!
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It is very rare that the westbound Zephyr has light like this when it departs Denver! A BNSF derailment in Illinois resulted in the Zephyr being 10 hours late in to Denver. Here, the train is just west of Leyden and charging west through a "sucker hole" in the clouds.
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After passing through Eisele and wrapping around the main part of Big Ten Curve, the eastbound Zephyr is now descending down toward a clear signal at Rocky.
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Plenty of green with some yellow flower mixed in creates a beautiful scene as the eastbound Zephyr rolls toward the Blue Mountain Road grade crossing. The train has green signals the rest of the way in to Denver.
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The eastbound Zephyr, running right on time, makes its way through the S-Curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon on the approach to the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Road.
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Five units (an ES44AC, an SD70ACe, and three SD70MACs) work hard to pull 80 cars of sand west through Barbara's Gulch. Each car weighs roughly 115 tons. That's 9,200 tons for the entire train. With the power on the train, it should have around 2.2 HPT. Just enough to keep it slowly rolling up the hill.
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After meeting an empty oil train at Leyden, this westbound loaded sand train is grinding its way through Barbara's Gulch, barely making 10 MPH as it climbs the grade.
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