HEAVY COAL TRAINS, on Tennessee Pass, with mid, and rear helpers
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2019
- We start out at Minturn Colorado were a loaded coal train pulls into the yard. They make short work of cutting the train and adding mid-train helpers. We leave before they added rear helpers to find a place for photos. We watch several other coal trains fight the steep grades up to the top of the mountain, which is in the Tennessee Pass tunnel. There is only one more year left, and the line was shut down. It is still intact, but has been out of service many years now.
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I videos are several years old, but i love ❤️ the big power plants that carry the loads across ❤ those passes thank you for sharing sir my compliments
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching.
Just heard about trains possibly returning over Tennessee pass, Hallelujah! Now, If only they could bring back Raton pass for frieght
Where'd you ever hear that from? UP hasn't sold off the line or ripped up the tracks, but given that there's been rock slides and the track in general is overgrown and needs rehabilitation I highly doubt they'd revive it. There's not much point in it, either. No local traffic and freight isn't flowing down that direction. With as much trouble and extra money as it would take to get loaded trains over the 3% ruling grade they could easily forward it through the Moffat Tunnel into Denver then send it South to Pueblo - if cross country traffic even needed to go that way.
Raton's the same story - no local business on the line and it wouldn't be worth rerouting existing traffic over the pass. It's only open because Amtrak uses the line.
I'd be skeptical of anyone saying trains would return to these particular mountain passes. If Tennessee Pass did reopen it'd likely only be Northbound coal empties to take advantage of the easier 1.4% grade heading North. No loaded Southbound trains would likely travel on it, and you'd likely not see manifest, autos, or intermodal travel over the pass.
@@davidwhiting1761 man, this was 3 years ago, so I don’t exactly remember where I heard it. I think there was rumblings about some short line who wanted to buy it. Either way it should definitely happen on both routes just because I said so and because it would be cool.
Its amazing to see the workload railroads would dish out to get a job done back in the day
I do miss railfaning that pass!
Another terrific video! Jack, the question is, where have you NOT shot train video?! Great location, and a history lesson too! Thanks for posting.
LOL, The Pacific NW is about the only place I missed David. Sorry to say. Maybe some day...
Love the ending with the snow falling.
Glad to see that you're back to uploading again. As always, thanks for another fantastic film.
Little by little NSrailfan. There is so much more, its hard to pick out what I want to put up next. LOL. Thanks for watching.
Tennessee Pass There is HOPE!!! Nov. 2019; Colorado Pacific Railroad is offering Union Pacific $10 million for 170 miles of its Tennessee Pass Line, running from Parkdale near the Royal Gorge through the lower Vail Valley to Dotsero. As of Dec 2019 the only west side recent Tennessee Pass rail line traffic is a train that runs to the American Gypsum wallboard manufacturing plant in Gypsum. The east side track above Parkdale over the pass to Dotsero is still owned by the UP. The track operated by Rock and Rail between Parkdale and Cañon City is still owned by the UP, while the track between Pueblo and Cañon City was purchased from the UP. The tourist line Cañon City and Royal Gorge Railroad operates on Rock and Rail (RRRR) short line section between Parkdale and Cañon City the RRRR's track is a subsidiary of Martin Marietta Materials.
Always great stuff.
Thanks again sal3060.
Awesome display of power, nice job catching those 4 DPU's being spliced into the middle of the train, sure miss operations through the Tennessee Pass, excellent video Jack thanks for posting this !
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Those weren't DPU's all manned helpers back then
Thank you!!!-- I wish union Pacific stuck with it's motto in big, bold red letters; ** WE CAN HANDLE IT""!!!!
Great power!
Simply Good stuff ,Jack
Thanks 30yrs. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching...
Pretty great footage of those AC60s
And those EMDs putting on a show like usual
Love the sound of those EMD's Austin. They always put on a great show.
Rio Grande, SP and the old UP We will deliver loco’s. Does it get any better?
your a ROCK STAR Jack, needed a Good SP DRGW fix ! sweet. Miss ya on the old YT cam. J
LOL. Yah! Thats to bad they quit the chat on the Hog Pen camera. I really enjoyed that. Maybe some day they will perfect that, and get the problems worked out.
Nice! I like this.
Thanks Steven, and thanks for watching..
Tennessee Pass should have never ever seen UP Armor Yellow.
We might see this line alive again soon
I sure hope so Ricardo. Been hearing some good rumors, and hope it comes to pass. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk I'd love to see trains going through cotopaxi colorado
It’s so sad that UP left this place to rot away
Yes it is! We keep holding out for hope, but it doesn't sound good.
I’d honestly like to see some sort of tourist line but, one can dream.
Great stuff as usual, just a question, once the Mid train helpers are attached to the front of the rear half do they move forward onto the rear of the front half?
Once the mid-trains units are coupled to the rear half, they pull up to the first section, couple up, and then the train pulls east. Then they stop, and the rear helper units come out of the yard and couple up to the rear. They do their air test, and off they go. On the other side the Tennessee Pass tunnel, at Malta, they stop in the small yard that has a crossover half way through the yard. They uncouple the mid-train units from the front and rear sections. Then the rear end helper pulls the rear half of the train back, the Mid-units run through the crossover to the other track. The rear helpers shove the train back together, and then drops off. The train does its air test, and heads east. The four midtrains run to the west end of the yard, couple to the two rear units, and they all head back down the mount grade to the yard at Minturn. Hope I explained that well. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk Thanks Jack well explained, thanks for the time in writing it out. Love all your videos of trains gone but not forgotten.
Good to see videos from yesteryear but the intro is a bit odd. By the date in the video, SP (owned by D&RGW) should have merged with UP. Either all great video
Cool did you never get a video of trains going through cotopaxi colorado?
Was this train east or west bound?
They were heading basically south on the Tennessee Pass line Chuck, but its actually an eastbound move. Thanks for watching...
These were the iron ore trains to Geneva steel weren't they?
These were all coal drags going east. I'm going to do one on the Geneva ore trains going west. Got a bunch on the Tennessee Pass line, and over Soldier Summit as well. Should be a good bunch of stuff in that clip. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk any,and all videos, just keep 'em coming!!
I find it interesting that the lead units were DC units. I wonder what the reasoning for that was.
Very good question.
@@1jackdk if I had to take a guess it was what was on the ready tracks that day and Denver/Omaha said use what ya got
needs better sound
Sorry Bob! Best that I could do with what equipment was available at that time. Old VHS with mono sound track. When I up-graded in the mid 90's with a Sharp Slimcam, at least that started the era of stereo and much better sound.
@@1jackdk still watching videos,
@@1jackdk my side of family, granpa uncles dad where all railroad . steam to dsl,s. thanks for reply.
Just be glad you got to see old trains
@@anrails3220 oh im glad our family grew up on trains.