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AMTK 174 Leads the Winter Park Express
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Amtrak Special Move: Denver to Longmont
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Great Day on the Moffat
21 pictures from 3/3/2024


Pepsi Can P42DC on the Zephyr
6 pictures from 2/15/2024


Heritage Unit for Valentine's Day
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Eastbound Oil Train (3 pics) - Added 2/6/2024
Best Winter Action of 2024! (22 pics) - Added 2/4/2024
Amtraks, MGJNY on a Overcast Morning (8 pics) - Added 2/2/2024
Denver-Provo, EB UP Coal Empty (7 pics) - Added 1/31/2024
Zephyr Derailment, Boeing Fuselages (18 pics) - Added 1/30/2024
Simply Fantastic Moffat Sunday (37 pics) - Added 1/28/2024
Morning Winter Park Express (2 pics) - Added 1/27/2024
Westbound WPE, Tied Down Provo-Denver (4 pics) - Added 1/26/2024
5 Hour Late Zephyr, Denver-Provo (3 pics) - Added 1/23/2024
Brush, Burnham, and Joint Line Action (39 pics) - Added 1/21/2024
Morning Winter Park Express (1 pics) - Added 1/20/2024
WPE, MGJNY, and a Late Zephyr (11 pics) - Added 1/19/2024
Light UP Unit, BNSF's Denver-Provo (7 pics) - Added 1/17/2024
Westbound Zephyr, Stalled UP MNYGJ (7 pics) - Added 1/16/2024
WPE and Zephyr in a Blizzard (4 pics) - Added 1/15/2024

 

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Week Of Sunday, March 17, 2024


A timeless image of a westbound train crossing over CO-72 at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon. 40 years ago, this same shot was replicated many times with the Rio Grande Zephyr and other Rio Grande traffic. Today, the scene contains some eastern visitors. This coal train originated east of the Mississippi River in CSX land, and the CSX power has stayed with the train the entire way to Colorado. Photo taken on Thursday, October 19, 2017.

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About the Webmaster
Hello! My name is Kevin Morgan and I have been a Railfan as long as I can remember. Without question, my dad is to blame for this more than anyone. He never worked for a railroad, but he did get very much into photography (of trains, specifically) in the late 1970's. I was first in North Yard in Denver when I was a mere two weeks old!

Today, I am in my thirty-somethings and I have two daughters of my own. As they are getting older, their interest in trains is waning a bit in favor of more girlish things. I suppose this is inevitable, but the three of us will still go out together for some picture taking of our own. Every other week, they visit their grandparents for a night and that is frequently the time when I will try to get trackside for some shots.

In my professional life, I am a computer programmer. That worked out quite well as it allowed me to design and build my entire website. People who have asked me what program I used to create it, I respond with "a good text editor and a lot of time".

I did some film photography in the late 1990's, but a lack of money contributed to the relatively few pictures I did take. I got my first digital camera for Christmas in 2001. It was a Minota DImage and was more of a fancy point-and-shoot. My first digital SLR was a Canon D60 which I got in October 2002. Since then, I have been shooting all Canon. I've gone through a Canon Rebel XT, Canon 20D and Canon 40D since I got that D60 in 2002. My current equipment includes the Canon 40D, a Canon IS 28-135mm lens and a Canon L-Series IS 300mm fixed lens. The Rebel XT bit the dust not long ago and I have yet to replace it, so currently I only have a single camera body. My post-processing is done in Adobe Lightroom and/or Adobe Photoshop Elements. On most of my more-recent pictures, the camera EXIF information is available at the bottom of each page.

So perhaps we'll run in to each other trackside sometime! If you see me (and the girls!) out in our Jeep, stop and say hello.

Questions or comments, feel free to send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

One Year Ago...
This Photo was taken exactly one year ago on
Sunday, March 19, 2023.
Amazing how fast time goes by. You can click the date above to view all the photos from that day.


Irondale
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Ten Years Ago...
This Photo was taken exactly ten years ago on
Wednesday, March 19, 2014.
Amazing how fast time goes by. You can click the date above to view all the photos from that day.



Wednesday, March 19, 2014

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