Is it just me, or do these cars seem to be too close? Perhaps there was a collosion.
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I vote for a visual effect compounded by the lighting. [:)]
I agree, The shadows just make it look closer that it really is.
Agree also, the shadows make them appear closer than they are.
Learned the way to test for clearence was to stand with one foot against the outside of the rail closest to the car in question, and hold the opposite arm out straight to the side.
If I can not touch the car in question, it is in the clear.
The cars in the overhead are close, but not so close that I would worry much about them.
Ed
I think the cars on the second track in (loads) are a little too close for comfort. Not that they aren’t in the clear–but if I were riding on the side of the empties I’d not want to go past something like that (Ed could make it–he’s a bit skinnier than I!).
This is something I deal with quite a bit in the hump yard, when tracks are filled beyond their limits. My vantage point helps in many cases to let the CROs in the lower towers know exactly what’s fouled (I often have a better angle than they do for sighting such things). I think I made a wrong call once, about 20 years ago (that was back in the days when I wore glasses!).
Geez - I know dat place!
The power plant (Xcel Energy’s Cherokee power Plant) parks the cars a little closer then they ought to. They’ve cornered a few and the little green PSCO SW1001 they dump coal with has a few scrapes to prove it. That little engine fairly roars pulling a cut of loats up to the dumper. (That’s it with the white cab roof to the south pulling empties)
(UP delivers the coal and then gets their people out of there mui pronto)
You are near Belt Junction/Stockyards Junction on the East Denver Belt Line/ EDBL (UPRR, Ex SPT/DRGW/NWT 1904) …In the upper RH corner is the diversion dam for The OBrian Canal coming out of the South Platte River)…To the south as you pan down is Stockyards Junction (EDBL running east-west) and the stockyards lead going south of the EDBL.
There are much scarier/nastier clearance problems created by the rendering plants on the old NWT Stockyards lead around the rendering plants now owned by Denver RockIsland RR after the track swap last year (so UP can re-establish the bypass connecting the Old KP to Utah Junction)
Real pleasant neighborhood if you like stockyards, refineries, sewage treatment plants (You flush in Denver and it goes here), and rendering plants…[xx(][xx(][xx(]
You are making me hungry.[:D]
I was looking for Burnham Shops when I got sidetracked (pun intended). Where is it from there?
Well to the south. (other side of Downtown Denver)
Go to I-25 and 8th Avenue…from I-25 go east along 8th about 1 mile (under the 8th Avenue Viaduct)… Hit Broadway and you’ve gone too far east. RTD 6th & Osage carbarn just to the south.
I made a rough count of the number of coal cars sitting around the property. Came to about 200. I’m surprised that they didn’t have them stacked one on top of another.
They may still be close enough to peel you off the side of a car if you were riding on that side though.
Thanks, I reckon this must be it. I noticed that they keep the Ski Train rolling stock there.