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News Photos MNZX 787 & 788 on the Joint Line

MNZX F9s moved dead on flatcars south from Denver to Pueblo, CO, on Saturday, 28 Mar 2015. The two engines were most recently used on the now-defunct Minnesota Zephyr dinner train out of Stillwater, MN. The passenger cars from the train arrived in Alamosa for storage nearly two years ago (summer 2013), but the engines languished in Stillwater until late December 2014. They slowly worked their way west, and finally made the trip down the Joint Line in daylight. It's anticipated that they'll be delivered to Walsenburg and hauled to Alamosa by the SLRG in the coming week.

Date: 03 Mar 2015
Size: 25 items
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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The crew is making good time, having hit the double track at Crews without having to wait for any northbounds.
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Unlike the morning's train arrangement where the Fs were quite a few carloads back, they've been moved closer to the head end after working Colorado Springs.
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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Just another shot between Buttes and Bragdon
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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The dry valleys of southern Colorado are just a bit different than the lush, wet river valleys of Minnesota where these units have lived for years.
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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Having met a northbound oil empty at Tapp, UP 6327 swings around what I've only ever heard described as "Walmart Curve" in Pueblo (largely because it's behind, well, Walmart...)
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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6327 pulling up to Pueblo Junction
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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That nose panel is a dead giveaway - that's a Rio Grande motor under that yellow paint. UP 1358 - second to last out on today's move - is former D&RGW GP40-2 3105.
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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BNSF 9026 pulls through Pueblo Junction as soon as the UP manifest clears up, dragging an empty TGNX coal train north.
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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In the last light of the day, BNSF 5607 leads that northbound oil empty I mentioned earlier through Fountain.
Date: 03 Mar 2015
Owner: ND Holmes
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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Date: 03 Mar 2015
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