Cabooses...once a dime a dozen. On the end of every freight train you could find on the rails. Now, if you can find them, more often then not they are used as "shoving platforms". Such is the case with this ATSF caboose. Note that it is all boarded up and, when used, crews stay on the outside.
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Who would have thought that such a sign could still be found in 2007? At Crews, the southbound main breaks away from the northbound main (it is the diverging route). Temporarily, both tracks are owned by BNSF. Once on the original DRGW alignment, the southbound main switch ownership - today it goes back to UP. Once upon a time, it was (of course) Rio Grande. This sign still stands at Crews, showing the old ownerships.
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A unpatched Santa Fe C44-9CW in the warbonnet scheme sits as the second unit on a COFC train.
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One of the few remaining unpatched Santa Fe warbonnets was one of three mid-train C44-9CWs sitting on the siding at Leyden on this May day.
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The sun shines through to light up the nose on this westbound BNSF manifest as it prepares to enter the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel. Back in 1997, Santa Fe's Warbonnets were still in close-to-pristine condition and you can tell even in this black and white photo!
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Espee 131 is about to overtake ATSF 845 at the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel. The light power will run through the tunnel ahead of the manifest to rescue a stalled coal load at Winter Park. This picture was taken on Ilford Pan-F (ISO 50) film.
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With the UP/SP merger coming less that a year earlier, this was still a new site to see on the Moffat in 1997! BNSF trackage rights trains heading both east and west. Here, an MDVSTJ (Denver to Stockton) manifest makes its way west on the main track at Plain.
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An ATSF C40-8W (in full warbonnet red and silver) sits in the siding at Monument on the Joint Line to wait for a meet.
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