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R. Hales posted:

Does anyone know what the reason is for the Cheyenne Frontiers Day train not using Denver Union station?  Before the station remodel a few years ago, the train always used Union Station.

Since the station remodel, there is no longer an easily accessible public viewing of the train.

I believe it is because that there are no longer any "spare" tracks, let alone one long enough for such a huge train.

Hot Water posted:
R. Hales posted:

Does anyone know what the reason is for the Cheyenne Frontiers Day train not using Denver Union station?  Before the station remodel a few years ago, the train always used Union Station.

Since the station remodel, there is no longer an easily accessible public viewing of the train.

I believe it is because that there are no longer any "spare" tracks, let alone one long enough for such a huge train.

Thanks Hot Water.  I would have guessed it was because of the length of the train.  But if that is the case, I believe it was a mistake not to maintain at least one platform long enough to accommodate such a train when they did the station remodel.  If I remember right, the station currently has 8 tracks.

R. Hales posted:
I would have guessed it was because of the length of the train.  But if that is the case, I believe it was a mistake not to maintain at least one platform long enough to accommodate such a train when they did the station remodel.  If I remember right, the station currently has 8 tracks.

Years ago, the tracks passed the back of the station heading north-south, so trains could pull through the station (the way it was when I lived there in the 70s). Now, it is solid buildings to the south, the tracks end at the back of the station, and trains have to back in to the south to the station, and then depart to the north.

Actually, there are only three non-commuter tracks that back into the concourse at the rear of the station.

 

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Jim M Sr posted:

In the end, a beautiful train. Luckily UP runs their own track.

Shame that the 611 has been shackled by small thinking.

I do not know anything about the area the 611 is in, but here in southern ca there is talk that when the 3759 is back up and running it might pull a commuter train on the metro link.

similar to what the 765 is doing on the metra.

 

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