The eastbound unit coal empties of Deseret Power Railway swing through a “s curve” at milepost 24 in colorful and remote Coyote Basin, Utah, on October 20, 2015.
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With 44 cars of coal for the Bonanza Power Plant, the westbound afternoon run of Deseret Power Railway climbs out of Mormon Gap, Colorado, on October 21, 2015. Three GE E60 electrics are digging in on the steep grade climbing into Coyote Basin at milepost 21.
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A westbound Deseret Power Railway unit coal train passes through Mormon Gap, Colorado, on the morning of October 20, 2015. These E60C-2 electric locomotives are energized by a 50,000-volt overhead wire on catenary supports on the 35-mile line from the Deserado Mine loadout in Colorado and the Bonanza Power Plant in Utah. The railroad was originally built in 1982-1983 and called the Deseret-Western. The first two locomotives on this train are the original E60C-2 locomotives used during startup, acquired from GE from part of a cancelled order of the 6,000-h.p. machines for Nationales de Mexico, intended for use on a newly-constructed line out of Mexico City. Electric operations on this line was never realized—much of the E60C-2 fleet was used only briefly—or never put in service. Of the 39 locomotives built in 1982-83 for NdeM, 28 were finally placed in service on a portion of the intended route in 1994, and six were soon wrecked. The third locomotive in the photo (DPR-3) is one of five former NdeM E60C-2s that DPR bought to supplement the fleet in the mid-2000s.
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After unloading at Utah’s Bonanza Power Plant in the background, the eastbound Deseret Power Railway unit train passes milepost 31 a few miles east of the plant on October 21, 2015.
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Deseret Power Railway’s westbound unit coal train is making a run at grade over Holum Pass two miles west of the Deserado Mine Loadout on the afternoon of October 21, 2015. Three General Electric E60C-2s power the 44-car train bound for Utah’s Bonanza Power Plant. To me, the scenery in this stretch of railroad is “Milwaukee Road in eastern Washington meets Cajon Pass.”
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