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Burlington Northern BN 3113 8073 Train 92 West of Broomfield CO

Empty Boeing aircraft parts cars along with flats carrying trailers and containers on the head end trail Burlington Northern “tiger stripe” GP50 3113 and SD40-2 8073 leading Train 92, (Spokane-Houston) near milepost 17.5, west of Broomfield, CO. October 23, 1988

 

Operating on former Colorado & Southern Ry. trackage, (absorbed by the BN in 1981) the train curves to the east near a location formerly known as Burns Junction where the Denver & Interurban, an electric interurban line that once paralleled the C&S split off and continued west to the city of Boulder.

 

 

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Taken on October 23, 1988