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Date: 06/07/07 04:32
Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: SP6190

June 22, 1983 Continued

#1 At Brush we found the BN 6562/5208 doing a little switching in the small yard there.

#2 The BN kept a couple of units at Brush for local and switching service. This day the 2060/2057 were the units of choice.

#3 There were a couple of empty coal trains waiting for new crews. One of them was the BN 5045.



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Date: 06/07/07 04:33
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: SP6190

#4 The other coal train was the ATSF 8070.

#5 Time for a westbound. Here the BN 5080 comes around the curve and past the grain elevator with a loaded coal train.

#6 The 5080 was followed closely by the BN 5534 with another coal train.



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Date: 06/07/07 04:34
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: SP6190

#7 Then it was time for the empties to leave. First the BN 5045 headed out of town.

#8-9 Followed by the ATSF 8070.



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Date: 06/07/07 04:36
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: SP6190

#10 And then it was our turn. Near Sterling we caught up with the BN 7189 heading into the siding with another empty coal train.

#11 The big surprise of the day was actually catching a train on the Union Pacific Julesburg Subdivision. This is the line that ran from Julesburg to La Salle Colorado. Here we see the UP 735 heading west near Sterling.



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Date: 06/07/07 04:37
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: SP6190

#12 Near Sidney Nebraska we caught the UP 3553 heading west.

#13 And finally the 2451.



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Date: 06/07/07 04:59
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: MP90

Great stuff as usual John. What film were you shooting with the dark, cloudy weather?

MP90

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Date: 06/07/07 05:24
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: SP6190

MP90 Wrote:
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> Great stuff as usual John. What film were you
> shooting with the dark, cloudy weather?
>
> MP90


That would have been Kodachrome 64.

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Date: 06/07/07 07:13
Re: Road Trip 1983, Part 6
Author: WAF

That's the Colorado railroading I saw when I came to live here in April, 84. Haven't left, but things have changed... naturally.

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