AMTK 204 is one of the more recent repaints for Amtrak, going from the Phase 5 scheme to the Phase 7 scheme. It is second out this morning.
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A pair of P42s, elephant style, lead the Zephyr west on the siding at Plain. You can see the train is meeting an eastbound BNSF oil train. the oil train just got a green signal and is departing eastbound.
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The westbound Zephyr is on the main at Plain, splitting a BNSF oil train on the main and a lot of maintenance equipment in the house track at Plain. The equipment is part of a significant maintenance project that UP is currently in the midst of undertaking. You can even see a lot of fresh ballast on the tracks here at Plain.
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A lot of fresh ballast has been laid here at Plain as the westbound Zephyr enters the siding to meet an eastbound BNSF oil train. Note that the engineer on the Zephyr has dimmed the headlight for the meet.
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The westbound Zephyr rolls through the siding at Eisele (Clay). An eastbound BNSF oil train was originally going to be waiting for the Zephyr on the main. However, the oil train ended up holding the main at Plain to wait on the Zephyr there.
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A typical pair of Amtrak P42DCs leads the morning Zephyr across the grade crossing at 66th Avenue in Arvada.
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In the 1990s, Amtrak developed a variation on its Phase 3 paint scheme that it applied to the its fleet of GE B32-8BWH. The design and colors led railfans to adopt the nickname "Pepsi Can" for the scheme. Amtrak has applied a heritage version of the scheme on P42DC #160, leading the train toward Tunnel 1 this morning.
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The morning Zephyr passes by a little red tractor as it also passes by the hotbox detector at MP 22.6, just west of Blue Mountain Drive. Amtrak's "Pepsi Can" heritage unit is leading the train this morning.
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The Zephyr is just starting is journey up and into the Rocky Mountains as it wraps around the curve toward Blue Mountain Drive. The Denver skyline stands tall off in the distance, 23 rail-miles to the east.
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Daylight Savings Time ended this past Sunday, offering a little more light for the morning Zephyr. Here in early November, the shadows have grown quite long as AMTK 160, the "Pepsi Can", leads the train westbound.
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The westbound Zephyr is rolling west on the main at Leyden right on time by the few-remaining fall colors here in early November.
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The conductor from UP's MGJNY has climbed down and is waiting on the ground to offer up a roll by for the westbound Zephyr, kicking up a little exhaust as it throttle up on the trip west at Eisele (Clay).
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While you will no doubt immediately see the Zephyr here at the west switch of Leyden, you might not immediately see that there are in fact two trains in this shot. The manifest visible up the hillside is an eastbound UP manifest that is waiting in the siding at Eisele (Clay) for the Zephyr.
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At the west end of Rocky, the westbound Zephyr charges west on the climb on the north side of Big Ten. The Zephyr this morning is running with the standard winter consist of seven Superliners.
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The morning Zephyr is running about 20 minutes late today, after a bit of a delay getting out of Union Station. The train is approaching the narrowest part of Barbara's Gulch on the journey west.
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