Photo ID: 103885 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 630 (Sable) Aurora, CO 1924 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific The Limon Sub doesn't typically play host to intermodal traffic. However, a derailment in Emmett, KS has resulted in the KOAMN being rerouted through Denver on its journey from Oakland, CA to Memphis, TN. Here, the train is stopped in the siding at Sable. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103884 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 630 (West Sable) Aurora, CO 1439 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific The double stack on the right has just cleared the derail (in the foreground) and will be coming to a stop soon. The conductor from the coal empty at the left will take care of aligning the switch at west Sable to the main and setting the derail to the "derail" position. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103883 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 630 (West Sable) Aurora, CO 1535 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific After nearly four hours of waiting around town, this KOAMN double stack has finally received a track warrant into the siding at Sable. Once in the siding, the crew will tie down and an inspection team will come and give the train a 1000 mile inspection. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103882 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP K627 (West Mesa) Aurora, CO 1520 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Where does the time go? Seems like just yesterday the AC4400CW was one of the newest things on the rails! Now, UP 7008 represents a unit that is nearly 20 years old while the truly newest representative from General Electric, the ES44AC, sits in the siding at Mesa. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103881 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP K627 (West Mesa) Aurora, CO 1453 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific In the late 1990's, UP had 10 AC4400CW's on lease from GECX. The units were numbered GECX 4000-4009. The units wore UP colors, but instead of "Union Pacific" on the long hood, they had "GECX". The units were ultimately purchased by UP and put in the roster. They wound up as UP 7000-7009. Here, you can see the number "7" patched on the cab over the "4" on UP 7008. With the addition of UP 7008, I've managed to shoot four out of the ten ex-GECX units to date. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103880 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP K627 (West Mesa) Aurora, CO 1380 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific This grain train proceeds east on the main at Mesa after departing Sable with a fresh crew. The train is actually a reroute that is running through Colorado due to a derailment in Emmett, KS. The train originated in Milford, UT and is headed for Salina, KS. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103879 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 5, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP K627 (West Mesa) Aurora, CO 1524 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Labor Day finds this westbound coal empty sitting in the siding at Mesa. A zone crew has just untied the train and is preparing to take it in to North Yard for a power swap. Currently, the train is being led by an ES44AC, which is somewhat unusual for UP coal trains in Colorado. Before continuing to the yard, however, the train must first wait for two eastbounds to come by before departing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103162 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 10, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 625 (CP K625) Aurora, CO 1575 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific At the east switch of Mesa, a grain train has a track warrant to continue toward the eastern plains of Colorado. Signs that summer is over are very apparent as the temperature is a chilly 25 degrees! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103148 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 30, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 632 Aurora, CO 3072 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Quite a different assignment from the one it had a few weeks ago when it led the California Zephyr! Here, UP 1989 is sitting on a train used for training of local law enforcement officials. That second car on the train is used for transporting radioactive waste by rail. The "nuclear" car has a buffer car on either side of it, and a Department of Defense caboose (actually used as a part of the Department of Energy) sits on the end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103147 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 30, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 632 Aurora, CO 2456 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande UP 1989 was setup on the point of this rather unusual looking train at UP's Roydale Yard on the Limon Sub. The day before, a Colorado Highway Patrol tent was setup and officials were being introduced to the nuclear car, used for transporting radioactive waste. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103146 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 30, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 632 Aurora, CO 1678 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) DODX This is an appropriately-named "nuclear" car. It is used for transporting nuclear waste by rail. It has been tested by intentionally derailing a train and running it into a wall at 100+ MPH! In all tests, the radioactive cylinder remained completely intact. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103145 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 30, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 632 Aurora, CO 1629 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) DODX Can you guess what "DODX" stands for on this caboose? If you guessed "Department of Defense", you'd be correct! This caboose is owned by the United States Department of Defense and was sitting on a short train in the yard at Roydale. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102775 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 27, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 631 Aurora, CO 1758 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific I consider myself extremely lucky to have come across this consist! These days, finding a patched Espee unit is still fairly common. Two patched units in a consist is increasing rare. Finding three - particularly three without an other units - is just awesome. These units were on a coal empty heading for Energy, tied down in the siding at Sable. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102070 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mesa (K627) Aurora, CO 1673 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific With light almost gone in the western sky, this unit pipe train is entering the siding at Mesa to clear up for an eastbound coal load. Even though the Limon Sub operates under track warrants, there is an ABS island at both ends of Mesa, allowing the dispatcher to throw the switch, saving the crew quite a bit of time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102065 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 10, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sable Aurora, CO 1858 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific This long lens shot turned out a smidge distorted, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to post a shot with planes, train and automobiles all in the same shot (that is, if you consider the military equipment "automobiles"!) ... The plain above is a FedEx cargo jet (an MD-11, to be exact) on final approach at Denver International Airport. The train, in the meantime, is preparing to tie down on the siding at Sable to await a recrew. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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