Railroad photograph
Photo by: Kevin Morgan
An oil company (or companies?) in the Craig, CO area have need sand for fracking lately. A lot of it! The MNYPHX had a bunch of loaded cars a week ago or so. And then, overnight, a 113-car, 12,400-ton unit sand train arrived at North Yard. It was rumored the train would go west with a 3x4x2 power configuration. However, the powers that be decided to split the train in two. Here, the first half (51 cars) are headed west at Leyden in a 3x(0)x2 configuration. The rest of the hoppers will go west on the MNYPHX.
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Thursday, December 07, 2017 at 13:57:37
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Location Information

City or County and State
Arvada, CO

Subdivision
Moffat Tunnel (UP)

Milepost or Control Point
CP DS012 (East Leyden)




Train Information
Railroad
Union Pacific
Model
ES44AC
Primary Unit Number
UP 7455

Paint Scheme
UP Flag/Lightning/Wings
Symbol
RSKXTS-05
Train Type
0-None


Photo Information
Camera Make/Model
Canon / Canon EOS 7D
ISO
640
Flash
Did Not Fire

Focal Length
275 mm
Shutter
1/400 seconds
Aperture
f/7.1