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03-31-2024 - 05:38
George Andrews
As luck would have it, my only ride on the Rio Grande Zephyr would be Westbound on April 14th, 1983. Surprisingly, even at this late date in the history of RGZ, few passengers rode West of Grand Junct
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03-02-2024 - 06:58
D. B. Arthur
Here's a photo I took on February 03, 1974, FIFTY YEARS AGO, at the D&RGW station in Grand Junction, CO. It's a system map that hung over an open doorway (hence the light flare toward the bottom of t
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09-24-2023 - 18:09
D. B. Arthur
As seen from the rear platform of the private car CARITAS, here's a photo I took on October 27, 1993, THIRTY YEARS AGO, of an eastbound AAPRCO special operating over the now-out-of-service D&RGW Tenne
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08-19-2023 - 13:40
Morning news
X Amtrak alerts said it was weather related Amtrak Alerts
@AmtrakAlerts 16h
UPDATE: As of 10:30pm MT, California Zephyr Train 5, which departed Chicago (CHI) on 8/15, will now terminate at Grand J
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08-19-2023 - 09:13
Dr. George
What kind of weather is happening between Salt Lake City and Grand Junction that requires canceling 5 and 6?
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09-19-2022 - 15:11
D. B. Arthur
Dmac844 Wrote:
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> But if they ever could work it out, it's a stunningly beautiful section of track there.
Maybe something more realistic mig
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09-19-2022 - 03:44
Chris Walker
More importantly, the line to the left was the original narrow gauge D&RG line via Marshall Pass, Gunnison, Montrose to Grand Junction and on to SLC, Ogden. The line ahead was a branch to Leadville a
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04-27-2022 - 23:35
Peter D.
Curious. Did you go to the website? Leaving Grand Junction, there was maybe 20, 30 people at most. I remember the Station agent saying that every car Rio Grande owned was on that train. (apart from th
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04-27-2022 - 16:33
Peter D.
WOW! How cool is that then? Where do I start? I left Sacramento evening of the 10th. Spirit of California to L.A., then up to Salt Lake on the Pioneer(think it was) 5:30am drop off, 12th April, at the
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04-26-2022 - 20:35
George Andrews
Peter D. - I was also on what turned out to be The last REAL RGZ. A girlfriend & I did the whole trip, including Amtrak round-trip from Los Angeles to Denver via Cheyenne. We spent Wednesday April 13t
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04-26-2022 - 19:18
D. B. Arthur
Peter D. Wrote:
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> Well. As railfans go, if we couldn't get the shot here, we'd go back (same direction this train is going)(now, if trains wer
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04-26-2022 - 14:14
Peter D.
Well. As railfans go, if we couldn't get the shot here, we'd go back (same direction this train is going)(now, if trains were running here presently), half, three quater mile and shoot it along the ri
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07-31-2021 - 07:24
purveyor of worthless news
Service Advisory: Due to a weather-related track closure east of Grand Junction (GJT), California Zephyr Service between Denver (DEN) and GJT could be affected on 7/31. For reservation assistance, ple
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09-30-2020 - 20:51
Mudrock
http://www.trainweb.org/chris
No direct links. Click on Mudrock and go to my 2016 to present page.
Enjoy.
Picture is of California Zephyr 6 at Grand Junction, Colorado.
Chris
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08-13-2020 - 18:14
FUD
Amtrak's service alerts have been littered with delays and reroutes (and annulments) on the Zephyr recently, mostly between SLC and Denver. Some have been due to track work by UP. The problem now is a
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04-10-2020 - 14:44
Brian Westgate
Lots of what-ifs out there. Here's some of mine . . .
White if UP had never lost Colorado & Southern (and South Park had made it to Grand Junction)?
What if Rio Grande had never lost Western Pacific
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04-08-2020 - 21:12
BN Oly
Spent about 12 hours in Grand Junction in September of 2012. Only train was a short manifest, maybe 40 cars. Half of them ballast cars. Train was tied down waiting for a crew or something. Not even
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01-13-2020 - 08:37
SP5103
IIRC - These are actually the THIRD generation of slugs used on this line.
First generation was SP's TEBU (U25B cores). SP also had four sets of yard slug - MP15AC sets and I believe at least a cou
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12-18-2018 - 13:03
Brian Westgate
It's a shame the Rock didn't have in its route map these 2 lines that would extended it closer to the Pacific: El Paso & Southwestern (gets them all the way to Tucson) and Colorado Midland (gets them
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09-17-2018 - 15:22
Dmac844
The westbound Zephyr (#5) departing Denver yesterday (9/16) was held at Grand Junction overnight when the UP was closed at the fire location (US-6 was/is also closed). My understanding is that the tra
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08-29-2018 - 07:16
Me
22. Restructure
Many LDT's should be separated into corridors and service based on the Australian model of a once or twice per week cruise trains.
1-3 times per day corridor day trains feeding Chicago from Minneap
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08-12-2018 - 20:26
WebDigger
White River Junction Wrote:
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> I noticed when I was on Amtrak 6 stopped in Grand Junction that there appear to be two historic RR depots. Ther
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08-12-2018 - 18:26
White River Junction
OOPS!
Here are the corrected links:
photo of the westernmost building:
http://www.tomrawson.net/GJwest.JPG
photo of the easternmost building:
http://www.tomrawson.net/GJeast.JPG
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08-12-2018 - 18:24
White River Junction
I noticed when I was on Amtrak 6 stopped in Grand Junction that there appear to be two historic RR depots. There is one that (I think) Amtrak used for awhile and then abandoned in favor of an adjacent
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04-16-2018 - 17:23
Peter D.
Your right! I was on that train to. If anybody wants to dig into the Photographers Railroad Page, Archives, I wrote a story about my trip and took a grab shot out of the dome observation car. 2007. Ti
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04-14-2018 - 18:19
George Andrews
April 14th, 2018 is the 35th Anniversary of the Thistle, Utah landslide that severed the Rio Grande's mainline, and truncated the Rio Grande Zephyr to a Denver - Grand Junction run for its' last few w
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02-19-2018 - 19:39
Dale Jones
Thanks Bruce,
Without being hypercritical - I have noticed a few statements in the Clive Carter Spokane International book that appear to be perhaps...
I realize the importance of being as histo
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11-02-2017 - 15:13
BOB R
David, you're wrong about museums selling their pieces. They do it all the time, or make exchanges to augment their collections.
I think it's great that 4404 may end up in revenue service, not jus
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