RailPictures.Net Photo: AMTK 200 Amtrak GE P42DC at Thatcher, Colorado by Brian Kays

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» BNSF Raton Sub. MP 604.5
» Thatcher, Colorado, USA (more..)
» March 19, 2017

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After stepping off the Southwest Chief in La Junta, I find myself pacing the train along the Raton Subdivision on U.S. Route 350. The Chief is running at its maximum track speed of 79 miles per hour breezing past the code line poles paralleling the route.

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