A Union Pacific inspection train approaches Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, just after dawn on July 26, 2014. EMD SD70ACe No. 8734 leads power car UPP 207, sleeper “Portola” UPP 1610 and theater car “Fox River” UPP 420.
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For two weekends in 2007, when one of the Ski Train's F40PH locomotives was down with mechanical issues, Union Pacific thoughtfully provided Rio Grande Heritage No. 1989 to help haul the passenger train. On February 11, 2007, the Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1, just east of Plain, Colorado.
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The West Local switches the aggregates plant at the end of Rocky Spur that leaves the Moffat Tunnel main line at Rocky, Colorado, on July 30, 1996. A pair of venerable Rio Grande GP30s power the train.
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Union Pacific's executive passenger train pulled by a A-B-A set of E-Units curves through Tunnel 29 and heads for Pinecliffe, Colorado, on June 2, 1998.
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On Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, a BNSF coil steel train grinds through Rollinsville, Colorado, late in the afternoon of January 20, 2003. Two more DPU locomotives push on the rear of the heavy train heading for California.
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