Always nice to find a "Dark Future" unit make its way into Colorado. A CSX CM44AC (rebuilt from an AC4400CW) leads an eastbound BNSF unit oil train on the main at Plain. The train is slowing to a stop as it will be meeting the westbound Zephyr here.
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Posted By Terry Ten Eyck On Thursday, August 13, 2026 At 1:10:45 AM (PT)
Kevin has captured a crisp view, about 10 or 12 tank cars back, of the 400’ long VERTICAL CURVE Moffat’s Chief Engineer, Horace Augustus Sumner specified for use on all large changes of grade, from the steady 2.00% grade approaching the east end of original 2,000’ long, 1.00% slack grade Goodenough Siding (later, in June 1904, renamed Plainview Siding). Over the years, this siding has been extended three times to its current 6,530’ length. The 4,046.4’ long Plainview tangent is the longest straight track between east Rocky and west Rollinsville. Kevin’s photograph shows the east end of Rainbow Cut to the right of the last visible tank cars. The west end of the original Plainview Siding ended at the upper end of this tangent, where the line entered the 10° left turn into Rainbow Cut.
