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| Title: |
Wired |
| Description: |
Track view looking toward DIA from the Pena Blvd/61st St station. The heavy rail part of the RTD reminds me of the South Shore, especially out here, where it runs in the plains for some distance between here and the airport. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:12:29 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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25 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long look |
| Description: |
A tele shot of the pole line brings in the switch east of the Pena Blvd station, where the line goes to single track. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:28:58 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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20 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
City bound |
| Description: |
A Denver bound train approaches the switch for to the westbound track. A truck rolls away to the north on Pena Blvd in the distance. Despite the name, the station here actually has no access to Pena Blvd, which is an expressway here. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:31:08 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4063(Electric M.U.) |
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24 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming in for the stop |
| Description: |
The train in the previous shot now approaches the Pena Blvd station, slowing for his stop here. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:37:23 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4063(Electric M.U.) |
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25 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
4014 and the Front Range |
| Description: |
The rear car on the train just arriving is RTD 4014, which we see against the backdrop of the Front Range, to the west of Denver. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:42:29 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4014(Electric M.U.) |
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22 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Home signals |
| Description: |
The home signals at the end of double track at Pena Blvd show clear for the westbound track, as a train is imminent, and red for the westbound track |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:46:11 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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20 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arriving shortly |
| Description: |
There are a couple of things appealing about the RTD. One is, a 15 minute headway most of the day, so you never have a long wait for a train, and theyre generally on time. The other is that the station signs give you a heads up on the next arrival, as we see here on track 1 for a DIA bound train. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:53:43 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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18 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
And here it is |
| Description: |
The westbound promised by the station sign has arrived, now making its last stop before the airport. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:58:49 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4040(Electric M.U.) |
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18 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Watching the platform |
| Description: |
The motorman looks down the side of the train as it exchanges riders, the Front Range looking in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:01:21 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4040(Electric M.U.) |
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16 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Come on... |
| Description: |
Theres nothing so inviting as a green signal, this one calling to the DIA bound train about to depart Pena Blvd |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:10:29 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4040(Electric M.U.) |
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19 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
And away |
| Description: |
The DIA bound train knocks down the signal as it takes to the single track en route to DIA. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:15:45 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4041(Electric M.U.) |
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19 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Where do we go from here?? |
| Description: |
To Denver Union Station, as the sign says on the track 2 platform. Its not the same station I rode the RGZ into in 1982, but still good to see it has a purpose in line with its original intent. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:20:36 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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14 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Where we are now |
| Description: |
The station is 61st St/Pena Blvd, but its actually off Pena by a good ways to the east. Access is ar the foot of 61st St, off Tower Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:25:57 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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17 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Through the switch |
| Description: |
A Union Station bound train rolls through the switch from single track just east of Pena Blvd |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:27:51 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4003(Electric M.U.) |
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20 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Into the station |
| Description: |
The Denver bound train now slows for the station stop here. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:30:59 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4003(Electric M.U.) |
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19 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Low and high |
| Description: |
The train is in the station at ground level-actually, about 5500 feet elevation-and were looking at the Front Range, whose peaks top 13,000 feet. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2024 Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:34:09 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RTD 4046(Electric M.U.) |
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15 Comments: 0 |
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