UP 5822 slowly leads the MNPNY south toward a yellow (approach) signal at the north end of Brighton. The train will meet its counterpart, the MNYNP, which is out of Hazeltine (the next siding to the south).
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About 28 miles north of Denver on the Greeley Subdivision, the southbound MNPNY (North Platte, NE to North Yard, CO) passes hay in a field! And yes, that is the Rio Grande Heritage Unit fourth out in the consist.
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This was on my favorite Grande geeps to end up getting a patch. UP 1348 (ex-DRGW 3126) still has a full light package (MARS and Class lights) as well as the horn over the cab!
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While I'm not crazy about the patch on the cab as well as on the nose, it is always nice to find a patched Grande unit. Rather amazing really considering it had been nearly twenty years since the Grande disappeared at the time of this shot!
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UP 1352 was the last Rio Grande GP40-2 in the 30xx number range to get a patch. It's already been nearly two years, but UP 1352 was DRGW 3097 not long ago. On this Sunday, the geep was sitting shutdown in the yard at La Salle.
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On the approach to Bridge Street (and the Brighton Depot), Governor Ritter's train slows as it prepares for its first whistle stop. The train will pause for about a half hour while Ritter speaks to constituents.
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Passengers aboard Governor Ritter's whistle-stop train look out of the vista dome on the observation car Columbine as the train moves south at track speed, around 60 MPH.
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Having been sworn in earlier in the week, Governor Bill Ritter took a chartered train from Greeley to Pueblo, making whistle stops at Brighton, Denver, and Colorado Springs. Here, UP 4898 leads the special south at the north end of La Salle.
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A shot of the detail in the scheme along the long hood of UP 2002, one of the two specially painted Olympic units for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, UT.
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A roster shot of UP 2002 which reads "Salt Lake 2002, light the fire within" on the long hood. UP 2002 and UP 2001 (click here) were painted in this highly unique scheme in late October 2001 to pull the Olympic Torch around much of the west part of the country! Five years later, the units have not yet been repainted.
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UP 2002, the second of two units specially painted for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, leads the MGRDV-03. The train sits, crew still on board, on the inbound main just north of 36th Street in Denver.
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After meeting a southbound Z-Train at Hazeltine, this unique consist of American Orient Express cars departs north on the Greeley Sub. I believe the cars are being sent to Colorado Railcar in Fort Lupton. Summer afternoon clouds were building to the east of Denver over the plains.
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This southbound Z-Train (the ZSCDV-08) was wasting no time on its way south on the Greeley Sub. The two units were keeping the train at track speed (right around 60 MPH) along Highway 85. The train had doublestacks at the front and UPS trailers on the rear.
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A northbound manifest (the MNYNP-09) sits in the siding at La Salle near the depot. The train, led by two SD9043MAC's, is waiting for a southbound Z-Train which is just north of Greeley. The train is stopped near the depot to keep from blocking crossing in La Salle. Three UP SD40-2s idle away in the yard awaiting local duty.
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There are 307 SD9043MACs currently on UP's roster as of this photo. Their number range is 8000 to 8308 (UP 8025 and 8088 have been retired). This unit, UP 8000, is the "class unit" for the SD9043 series.
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