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Railfanning The BNSF La Junta Subdivision, 6-8-09

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Uploaded by on Jun 8, 2009

After a fairly busy day on the 7th, we expected a light day on the La Junta Sub.That's what we got, but we got a surprise. A 17 hour late Amtrak #4.

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(c) 2009 Chuck Mitchell

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  • Did you happen to overhear why the Amtrak train was so late?

  • A bridge in New Mexico caught on fire.

  • Nice Video Chuck!! Do you know why BNSF is diverting some of it's trains? (Z-RICWSP to name one)

  • They do it to free up space on the Emporia Sub since the line West of Emporia is single track.

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  • I thought the La Junta sub was where the Chief is allowed to get up to 100 mph

  • really long train

  • @deejayantz= They did overdo it on the last one.. They are called helpers. They're for really long trains, so long that one locomotive can't handle them all alone. So they all work together to move it.

  • 0:38!

  • @deejayantz out west, there are a lot of heavy grades that the train must cross. and what k5lta said as well

    :)

  • just to keep the preformance up or a power move or just in case one breakdown,there are alot of different reasons.

  • why in the USA they use so many engines on trains? even the last one has two and only a couple of cars

  • Nice video. Brings back memories of my trips on the ATSF via the Super Chief. Thank you for the posting.

  • oh yeah!!!! Santa Fe original colors first train!!!! awesome!!!!

  • so the military has trains to carry vehicles and weapons and other stuff

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