US freight train in Winter Park, Colorado

These heavy duty freight trains run from Denver through Winter Park to I know not where. there are at least 100 freight wagons behind the double header. With three other engines in the line. What a sound the engines make.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• amtrak
• freight
• train
• winter
• park
• denver
• colorado

[trainsmaniac2009]

I love your descriptions. I like how the English talk using words like: wagons and doubleheader (diesel). Using double header in the USA always refers to steam only.

[thebigchip]

.....If there hade been two steam engines i would still have said "Double header" Just couldn't think what else to say. Still an immense train, and so many of them every day.

[JimboRailfan]

An American word for that would be "lashup," when there are more than one locomotives on a train :)

Anyway, this is what the typical diesel locomotive looks like in the North American rail network. These locomotives are made by General Electric. In North America, EMD and GE makes up the vast majority of locomotives. The two big builders are General Electric and Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD was a division of General Motors until 2005, now owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Co).

[JimboRailfan]

I see you enjoyed American trains :)

Electric trains (like what I'm sure you're used to in the UK) have different sounds than diesels. One thing I love about trains here in America is the horns. They're awesome! This railroad is Union Pacific Railroad (UP), the oldest and largest railroad in North America. The North American Rail Network includes Canada, the US, and Mexico. Freight trains in N. America tend to be 50-100 or more cars long, an average of 1 or more miles long, some even 2miles long

[dmontoya699]

thats a UP coal train that goes up to craig colorado to get loaded with coal and then goes back down to denver and on to power plants across the midwest

[HonorSHarrington]

Its interesting the different idioms we use to describe the same things in the same language. Of course I would refer to European freight cars as wagons due to the fact that they are about half the size and only hold half of the cargo capacity.

If you want to try a new one out thebigclip, use 'lashup' to describe a group of modern locomotives.

[biggstemptations51]

I like the Video Clip of my Hometown and the OLd Rio Grande Route. My house is Down the street from there as i watch it live from AFGAN

[trainsmaniac2009]

Yep! There are about 40-50 trains a day that head east and west through Winter Park. We also get the east and west California Zephyr which always completes a railfanner's day. I hope that you come to Winter Park a lot more and watch trains. You would also love to see the American Orient Express (Grandluxe RailJourneys) train. It makes an appearance once in great while, whenever the company wants to run this way.

[tycoonuk]

Nice!