My pictures from Colorado February 24-March3 2001
On BNSF WB=NB, EB=SB on the Colorado section, I didn't catch how Raton Pass was defined.I did not know that BNSF and UP didn't call out train symbols like CSX and Conrail do out here in the east. I was born and raised in Colorado, but never had a scanner until I moved to NY for training and a friend here gave me his old one. Thus I did not have symbols to report, I apologize to those who are symbol junkies.
Due to renumbering fun and me alone with no video backup: No distinctions on Heritage 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0
BNSF-Heritage 1 or 2
R/S ATSF = Red Silver Warbonnet for ATSF/BNSF
B/Y ATSF = Blue Yellow ATSF/BNSF,
BN = classic green and black BN/BNSF,
BN G/C = green and creme BN/BNSF.
2/25/01
Ft. Collins - Front Range Sub North Yard
9am GWR 5625 (GP20M-Q) Budweiser job (for Omnitrax?)
Eaton-Greeley Sub 2pm UP 2187 (GP38-2)-UP XXXX (SD50?)-UP XXXX (GP38-2?)-UP XXXX (GP60?) SB manifest
310pm UP 8151 (SD90/43MAC)-UP 7270 (C44AC)-UP 8173 (SD90/43MAC) SB manifest
2/26/01
1250pm UP 8074 (SD90/43MAC)-UP 7157 (C44AC)-UP 8065 (SD90/43MAC) SB coal-old mixed hoppers
Ft. Collins 130pm BNSF 4896 (C44-9W)-ATSF 945 (R/S C44-9W)-ATSF 920 (R/S C44-9W)-BNSF 4893 (C44-9W)-CSX 8248 (SD40-2)-EMD Oakway 9041 (SD60)-EMD Oakway 9063 (SD60)
Another shot of the rolling rainbow
Carr, CO
415pm UP 6486 (C44AC)-UP 6663 (C44AC)-UP 6515 (C44AC) SB coal
2/27/01
Carr, CO
1010am UP 3665 (SD40-2)-SP 9780 (C44-9W) NB COFC/TOFC
Brighton, CO
2pm UP 2361 (GP39-2L) local switcher
F. B. E. tells me "The extended drawbar and draft gear is to allow the unit to push gondolas of sugar beets under the water washer without getting the unit electricals wet and shorting them out. This was not a problem when sugar refineries used steam engines or fireless cookers but the advent of diesels brought about this structural change."
Rick Bacon says: "The Great Western Sugar Company (not the Great Western Railroad, once owned by the sugar company) bought secondÊhand from the Rio Grande in 1954, a GE 44 ton diesel locomotive #40 (builder #15127 Sep 42') for use at theÊJohnstown, CO factory. At that time it was used only to switch the factory's yard and not to move beets, a job reservedÊfor a steam dinky due to the previously mentioned wash rack and the havoc it plays on electric traction motors. TheÊmodification for the wash rack must have come later. I can't say for sure if these two are the same locomotive, but IÊbelieve there's a good chance. FWIW Amalgamated Sugar is a current successor to the Great Western Sugar Company.ÊThe locomotive was probably bought along with the Brighton, CO factory or one of the other factories now used forÊstorage and moved to Brighton were it currently rests. My source for most of this is a book; SUGAR TRAMP,ÊCOLORADO'S GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY by Gary Morgan published by Centennial Publishing in 1975 (out of print). P.S. If this is the former D&RGW #40 it would be the second oldest Rio Grande standard gauge locomotive still inexistence. (Oldest is #583 a 2-8-0 on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO.)" Rick Bacon 3 Greeley, CO
Roger says: Ken Ardinger supplied the following info on the DRG&W 44 tonners.:Amalgamated Sugar at Brighton,CO has this unit-b/n 15127 9/42 ex Great Western Sugar 40 ex DRGW 40. The DRGW sold it to GW in 5/18/54, Johnstown, CO; I shot it there in 6/71 with GW paint,but no number I have a shot of it as Amalgamated Sugar no number Brighton,CO 7/90
DRGW 38 GE 44 ton b/n 13096 8/41 went to Great Lakes Carbon #12 in St.Louis,MO,have slide as 12 dated 10/71;present status not known.
DRGW 39 GE 44 ton b/n 15123 9/42 went through a number of short lines before going to Stevenson, AL, Rust Engineering to Mead Container, then the city of Stevenson,AL & put on display.
Ft. Lupton
215pm UP 2147 (GP38-2)-UP 2245 (GP38-2) SB manifest w/ RCIX 1001
First of 10 dome cars from Colorado Railcar Manufacturing LLC, this was the launching day, talked to VP Marketing Tom Janasky. Website http://www.coloradorailcar.com
La Salle, CO
245pm UP 2307 (GP38-2)-UP 810 (GP38-2)-UP 2588 (C30-7) yard power
Greeley, CO
3pm UP 5988 (SD60)-UP 3940 (SD40-2) SB ballast train w/ green hoppers
in siding for next two:
UP 7174 (C44AC)-UP 5017 (SD50)-UP 6762 (C44AC) SB manifest
UP 3497 (SD40-2)-UP 2188 (GP38-2)-UP 3229 (SD40-2) SB manifest
Ft. Collins
9pm BN 7810 (SD40-2 whiteface)-BNSF 6883 (SD40-2)-SP 278 (C44AC)-SP 229 (C44AC)-BN 2818 (GP35u) EB manifest w/ BN caboose 12304 WOW! meet w/:
LMSX 8547 (B39-8E)-BNSF 8268 (SD75I)-ATSF 329 (R/S GP60B) WB autoracks. WOW again!
EMD 9013 (SD60)-ATSF 815 (R/S C41-8W)-BN 6322 (SD40u)-BNSF 6940 (SD40-2) WB manifest
2/28/01
Greeley, CO
Noon UP 4074 (SD70M)-SP 9580 (C44-9W) NB manifest-My First Modern Wings (I have a shot of the E9s here)
1220pm UP 2281 (GP38-2) work train w/ "the machine" SB
Ft. Collins, CO
2pm EMD 9013 (SD60)-ATSF 815 (R/S C41-8W) WB manifest
meet at Owl Canyon siding at 3pm w/
BNSF 1062 (C44-9W)-BNSF 4543 (C44-9W)-BNSF 1003 (C44-9W)-BNSF 6836 (SD40-2) EB manifest
Another shot of the SB Pumpkin train
3/1/01
1150am Colorado Springs: Missed 2 EB coal w/ BNSF SD70MAC-BN G/C SD70MAC power
BNSF 6788 (SD40-2)-ATSF B/Y 6723 (SD40-2) -BN 7810 (SD40-2)-ATSF B/Y 6344 (SD40-2) EB manifest
1215pm N. of Pueblo SP 241 (C44AC)-UP 8235 (SD90/43MAC) NB old coal hoppers
missed a WB manifest at Walsenburg
210pm BN 9480 (G/C SD70MAC)-BN 9731 (G/C SD70MAC)-BN 9668 (G/C SD70MAC) EB coal
215pm BNSF 9863 (SD70MAC)-BN 9611(G/C SD70MAC)-BN XXXX (G/C SD70MAC) WB coal empties
220pm BN-BN-BNSF-BNSF SD70MACs WB coal empties
225pm Trinidad, CO BNSF 5476 (C44-9W)-PRR 6762 (SD60I)-BNSF XXXX (SD40-2) SB manifest
5pm BN 9483 (G/C SD70MAC)-BN 9231 (G/C SD70MAC)-BN 9665 (G/C SD70MAC) EB coal
Rail inspector w/ 9418 (G/C SD70MAC)!
BN 9803 (G/C SD70MAC)-BN 9582 (G/C SD70MAC) WB coal empties
BNSF 573 (R/S B40-8W)-BNSF 1028 (C44-9W)-BNSF 4912 (C44-9W) EB coal from over Raton pass
Helpers from Raton come over with BNSF 4473 (C44-9W)-MPEX 9502 (SD40-2M)-BNSF 4458 (C44-9W)-BNSF 6720 (SD40-2)-BNSF 4383 (C44-9W)-BNSF 4403 (C44-9W)-BNSF 4926 (C44-9W)-BNSF 8300 (R/S SD75I)
to help:
BNSF 1062 (C44-9W)-BNSF 4543 (C44-9W)-BNSF 1003 (C44-9W) manifest over the Pass.
Final consist:
BNSF R/S 8300-BNSF 1062-BNSF 4543-BNSF 1003 then mid train help BNSF 4383-BNSF 4403-BNSF 4926, others left behind
3/2/01
Trinidad, CO
AMTK #3 AMTK 55-AMTK 85-AMTK 15-AMTK 40 very long, 8 superliners, about 15 freight! 20 min late at 1010am
155pm BNSF 4824 (C44-9W)-ATSF 6771 (snoot B/Y SD40-2) WB manifest
210pm ATSF 698 (R/S C44-9W)-BNSF 7033 (SD40-2) WB manifest
225pm BNSF 6788-ATSF 6723-BN 7810-ATSF 6344 EB manifest
Meet at Beshoar Siding w/:
Another shot as the SD40-2s travel west.
415pm
3/3/01
1010am BNSF 4926 (C44-9W)-BNSF 4835? (C44-9W) WB manifest
1117am AMTK #3 w/ AMTK 20-AMTK 10-AMTK 52-AMTK 825 7 Superlines, 23! roadrailers and express boxcars
1140am BNSF 4948 (C44-9W)-BNSF 7213 (SD40-2)-BN 9628 (G/C SD70MAC) WB manifest
missed a WB coal and a rare old-school EB manifest w/ a 3 BN green and black attack (SD40-2, whiteface GP60?, SD40-2) soon after. Shucks!
445pm BNSF XXXX (SD70MAC)-BN XXXX (G/C SD70MAC) DPU BN XXXX (G/C SD70MAC) WB coal 530 axles
