Mid-mornings, Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver gets busy. Freight power is in from the east and has to be fueled and serviced, and passenger power must be made ready for the various Zephyrs’ afternoon departures. First out today, August 27, 1967, will be Colorado & Southern’s gleaming E5A 9954, due at Union Station for 12:45 departure on the Texas Zephyr. The train is running its last miles; because of loss of the mail contracts, Q subsidiary C&S will pull the plug on all passenger service on September 11. New York Central U25B 2535 will shortly be coupled to U28B 108, baskground, one of a growing fleet of General Electric U-boats on the Burlington, and head east in the afternoon on a CB&Q-NYC pool train. This short-lived operation which has provided several months of variety to the Denver railroad scene, will itself end in 1968 with the NYC-Pennsylvania merger.
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