With the warm, pastel colors of sunset settling in over Denver, three new Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe-T4s lead MNYRO out of Leyden, Colorado, at 8:10 p.m. on June 14, 2017. The three T4s—Nos. 3027, 3019, 3014—along with a rear DPU (the trailing GE ES44AC and two SD70ACes are dead-in-consist) power the westbound train up the 2-percent grade and it was amazing how quiet they were.
Tier IV locomotives are the safest, cleanest, and most fuel efficient locomotives on the rails today. Unfortunately, most of them are ugly and are as quiet as an ACS-64.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
