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UP 4556-BNSF 538 on HazMat Training Special

Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe have a hazardous material (HazMat) training special putting on emergency response training across Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri. The program is called Transcaer Region V 2001 Training Tour. It started in Grand Junction, CO, on Sept. 4, 2001.

The train with UP SD70M and BNSF 8-40BW 538 (Heritage II), ex-ATSF 538, moved east across the Colorado Rockies on 9-6-2001. It was parked at UP's North Yard, Denver, CO, just west of the car shop.

Train consist at North Yard;

Tank car UP 911000
Tank car BNSF 99911
Boxcar Rohm and Hass (reporting mark RAHX) 91101
Tank car Rohm and Hass (reporting mark RAHX) 91100
Flatcar RTTX 978836
Flatcar RTTX 154803
Flatcar RTTX 970070
Dupont tank car DUPX 913A
Dupont boxcar (training classroom) DUPX 913B
Dupont caboose DUPX 913C

The train will leave Denver on Monday, 9-10-2001 for North Platte, NE. Other cities on the agenda;

Lincoln, NE, Sept 18 - 19, 2001
Topeka, KS, Sept 22 - 23, 2001
Kansas City, KS, Oct. 1 - 2
Joplin/Springfield, MO, Oct. 5 - 6
St. Louis, MO, Oct. 11 - 12, 2001


Along the Action Road,


The Colorado Zephyr