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Maybe 0700ish. 8200/12cars. Brush.

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Headed for Helena, MT to be used on the biennial Blue Jeans Special hosted by MRL and BNSF for the Montana Legislature. Special runs this Saturday Mar07 dept. 1100 to Avon, MT and return. Train deadheads east afterwards. MRL is supposed to add ACe 4408 for use on the special only.
Dave in Msla

BNSF 8200 with 12-car passenger train headed for Helena, Montana, passed Lochbuie, Colorado, March 4, 2015.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/15 14:29 by cozephyr.

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BNSF 8200, ES44C4, with Glacier View full length dome moved 12-car Topeka, KS, to Helena, MT, train past construction equipment used to extend Crest and Roggen, CO, sidings March 4, 2015.

BNSF's 2015 capital projects in Colorado include:

· Extending the sidings along the Brush subdivision in Bijou, Crest, Hudson, Messex, Roggen and Tonville. The work on extending the sidings in Barr, Keensburg, New Hillrose and Wiggins will also start this year, but will be completed in 2016. The siding at Messex will also be converted to Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) to help manage rail traffic.

· Constructing a new siding west of Commerce City enabling trains on the same line to pass resulting in better train capacity.

· Extending the tracks at the Denver and Sterling terminals to improve throughput capacity. (Info courtesy BNSF)

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