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Railfanning Colorado Springs With 2 Officer Specials!

933 views · Published 29 July 2013 · 15:04 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Nick Valdez · 2013 · Autos & Vehicles

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Today was a crazy one! On July 28th, the CEO of Amtrak was bound for the rail testing facility in Pueblo; and to get him there, he was provided with a 4-car passenger train with 2 Genisis P42s on the point (One of them being from Amtrak's new Heritage Fleet). With word of this train going all up and down the Colorado Railfans, I headed to downtown Colorado Springs to see what I could catch. Now, it was assumed that the train would depart Denver around the same time Amtrak #5 started towards Moffat, and that everything would be said and done by mid day. But you know Amtrak, and you know the Joint Line. Add to that, I arrived downtown only to find out that the UP Dispatcher had quite the job to do this day, with over 10 southbounds and one northbound (over on BNSF territory) to deal with. And so with that, I give you this big montage of trains I caught while waiting over 5 hours for Amtrak, which you do finally see at the end of this video. Did I mention that the one northbound I caught in action wasn't a typical Joint Line train? That's right folks. It was ANOTHER officer's Special. In this case it was a large BNSF train, bound for Wyoming via the Joint Line/Brush Subdivision. Today brought quite the suprise, and quite the action for me to present to you. Rate. Comment. Subscribe. ENJOY!!! Copyright Nick Valdez Railroad Photography 2013.

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