CSUX 150 Fountain 30 Aug 20 - a photo on Flickriver

CSUX 150 is among many brethren as it makes its way towards the Ray Nixon Power Plant just south of Colorado Springs near Fountain, CO. In less than 24 hours, this unit coal train will have dumped its load (which will eventually make its way out the plant's lone stack seen in the background) and will be returning to the mine to repeat the process.

I realize the demand for railfans to see lone coal hopper shots is next to zero, but I wanted to document a train arriving at the Nixon power plant because I have yet to do so in all of my years 'fanning the Joint Line. Commonly referred to "C-Sucks" trains based on their reporting marks, these train sets serve the two coal-fired power plants in the Colorado Springs area. This is the Ray Nixon Power Plant in this shot, and the other is the Martin Drake Power Plant in downtown Colorado Springs. "CSUX" stands for Colorado Springs Utilities.

The last I looked, the environmentalist movement has succeeded in moving up the dates when these power plants will close. The Drake plant is slated to close down by 2023 while the Nixon plant is scheduled to close by 2030. In the meantime, they're looking to put in temporary natural gas-burning generators before they make the switch to "renewable" energy.

I put "renewable" in quotes because it brings to mind Second Harvest from 'The League' (theleaguefxx.tumblr.com/post/34582264998/we-had-to-cut-ra...). All I know is that they're going to have to put in a whole new system of distribution lines which means I can look forward to an increase in utility costs and rolling blackouts like California experienced this summer when the weather hits the extremes...not to mention the elimination of these coal trains.

Taken in: United States / Colorado / Buttes (show map)

Taken on: August 30, 2020

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Groups appears in: • Colorado Trains • The Joint Line Gallery - Denver to Pueblo

Camera: Canon EOS 60D, f/7.1, 1/800 sec, 200mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

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