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Date: 12/20/14 13:03
UP Granite turn question.
Author: upheritage6

The week after Christmas i am going to Cheyenne. I was just curious to when the Granite turn went west out of Cheyenne and the stops it makes.
Thanks!

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Date: 12/20/14 19:17
Re: UP Granite turn question.
Author: kwo

The Granite turn is what all ballast trains that run to Granite are called. No schedule, no stops. When there's a ballast train that needs loaded, whether BNSF or UP, it goes west as soon as it can.
~wko

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Date: 12/20/14 22:33
Re: UP Granite turn question.
Author: mojaveflyer

It was also the switcher last summer that tied onto the Frontier Days passenger special in the depot in Cheyenne and pulled the train backwards around the wye at Speer.

James Nelson
Thornton, CO
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Date: 12/21/14 00:49
Re: UP Granite turn question.
Author: dan

but it gets caught in traffic jams and held sometimes even thou it is short distance away then it can sneak in

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