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Waitin' on a train... |
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Buddy Muellers truck sitting at the crossing at MP 532.5, just east of Las Animas Jct on the La Junta Sub. |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 7:53:39 PM |
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Las Animas Junction, CO |
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Amtrak 3 making time westbound on the La Junta Sub |
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Not long after sunrise thru low clouds and ground fog, Amtrak 3 of the 31st roll west at track speed of 79 mph |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 7:53:40 PM |
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Las Animas Junction, CO |
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Pat Flynn |
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Chunked out and out of service! |
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Broken rail inside the insulated joint, north rail, west end of Caddoa. |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 7:53:42 PM |
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Caddoa, CO |
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Pat Flynn |
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Let's play "Find the siding..." |
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Continuing east from that first broken rail, heres the view down the main track yes, Caddoa siding is to our left! Being just a little bit lower in elevation than the main track, it got drifted in very easily during the storms. |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:05:21 PM |
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Caddoa, CO |
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Pat Flynn |
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Driftin', driftin', over the track it goes.... |
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Looking east frhm MP 514 thru a cut |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:08:15 PM |
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MP 514, CO |
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Pat Flynn |
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This is why we should have run a Jordan Spreader! |
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Approachin` MP 512, and these snowdrifts are not the work of stuff blowing onto the track from a tall cut- just high wind! |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:09:32 PM |
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MP 514, CO |
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Pat Flynn |
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This is downright ugly... |
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A view from the top of this bolt hole break, the broken rail being held in tight by the angle bars, for now |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:24:09 PM |
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MP 485.6, CO |
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this portion of the siding looks OK for meets... |
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Looking east down the siding at Holly CO thats hard packed solid ice in the flange uays at the road crossing. |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:11:53 PM |
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Holly, CO |
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Gee, what a great place to grow sugar bdets... |
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Turning around 180 degrees from the previous picture, and the west end of Holly is a bit covered in snow and ice. |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:13:49 PM |
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Holly, CO |
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What sub-zero cold and constant battering can do to 1940 rail!!! |
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Just east of MP 514, herep an example of battered rail ends, along with a few missing angle bar bolts. Buddy replaced the bolts, and the welders had a long job later in the day rebuilding the rail profile. |
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2/2/2007 Upload Date: 3/14/2007 8:06:22 PM |
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MP 514, CO |
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