Sunday morning was overcast and dark. We still decided to try a trip towards the Big Ten Curves at the foothills of the Rockies and by the time we arrived it was snowing. We saw a SP train waiting at a signal, but we didn’t feel like waiting for something to happen as it was getting cold. We continued towards Rollinsville and Central City passing the highest altitude on this trip. We stopped briefly in Central City an old mining town now filled with tourists and a few casinos.
But because of the bad weather we skipped any further mountain ventures and decided to head south towards Colorado Springs. Just outside Denver we saw the first MOVING train – a BN unit coal train, which we more or less followed towards Pueblo. In Pueblo it was time for the weirdest attraction of the trip – the Association of American Railroads test site. It’s 18 miles straight into nowhere, even the road signs agree saying: “Just 10 miles to go” and “Pretty country isn’t it?”. Well, after what seemed like forever, we arrived but there wasn’t much to see… So we drove back and Svein Tore used the opportunity to push the car a bit more than normal…
From Pueblo it was straight east before we parked the car in La Junta. We was fortunate enough to catch the arrival of the eastbound Southwest Chief and yet another unit coal train after dark. He probably didn’t intend to, but the Amtrak engineer really scared me when he turned on the lights and strobes and using the horn on his Genesis unit to mark it’s departure from La Junta.
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