Photo ID: 103121 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, August 29, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32 Boulder, CO 1655 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian Pacific A pair of Canadian Pacific AC4400CWs running light down the Front Range Sub approach Independence Road in north Boulder. Another 1,000 feet or so and the power will come to a stop and wait for nearly two hours while the Valmont coal train switch on the main ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103119 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, August 29, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 25 Boulder, CO 1614 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The trains destination is finally in sight! The Xcel Energy owned power plant at Valmont is coal fired. The hoppers will be spotted near the plant, and a switcher at the plant will position the hoppers to be dumped over the next several days. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102806 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 29, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32 Boulder, CO 1636 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just north of Boulder, this Laurel, MT to Denver, CO manifest is slowing in order to comply with the decreased speed through town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102545 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 2, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 26 Boulder, CO 1768 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A few afternoon clouds spill over on the Continental Divide as the Valmont coal load works on spotting cars at the power plant in Boulder. Interestingly, the third unit on the train in a C44-9W, not a unit with AC traction motors! Not too common these days. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102544 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 2, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 26 Boulder, CO 1882 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Valmont coal load makes a reverse move away from the camera to spot a string of cars at the power plant, noted to the left in this shot. Despite the somewhat rural look, this is actually in the middle of Boulder! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102543 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 2, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 26 Boulder, CO 1618 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Pulling across 63rd Street in Boulder, the northbound Valmont coal load prepares to spot about half the train at the power plant. The second half of the cars will be spotted on the Boulder siding until they are needed for unloading. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102542 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 2, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 35 Boulder, CO 1849 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Time for a break! The Valmont coal train is going to be dropping off its cars at the power plant and siding in Boulder. As a result, the Tacoma-Denver freight will be stopped at 63rd Street for about two hours to wait for the work to be completed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102449 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 34 Boulder, CO 1997 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF There's about 15 minutes left before the sun will duck behind the mountains. After waiting a few hours for the Valmont empty to clear, the Denver to Laurel finally has a warrant to proceed north toward Longmont. Cars are pacing the train on the Diagonal here has three engines work to take the train north in the setting sun. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102447 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 35 Boulder, CO 2270 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Northbounds are always hard to shoot on the Front Range Sub, but that problems tends to get worse in the winter months when the sun is further to the south. The sun is almost directly behind this Valmont empty as it makes its way north past 63rd Street along the Diagonal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102446 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Boulder, CO 1844 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF On the approach to MP 32 (and the 47th Street grade crossing), An ES44AC and a pair of SD70ACes have the northbound Valmont empty on the roll in Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102445 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 28 Boulder, CO 1766 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF For decades, coal for the Valmont power plant has come from western Colorado. However, starting in November 2008, the coal is now coming from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. BNSF now gets all the business (whereas UP ran the train to and from the mine). BNSF will route the loaded train down the Brush Sub and the empty north on the Front Range Sub. Here is the first train headed north on on the Sub, approaching the Foothills Blvd Underpass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102444 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 24 Boulder, CO 1651 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The north side of Burke Hill has a 2% grade coming down into Boulder. The DENLAU has an H2 C44-9W, Warbonnet C44-9W and an H2 SD75M for power. The train is stopped at MP 24 to wait for the Valmont empty to clear ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102443 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 24 Boulder, CO 1650 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Holding just shy of MP 24, the HDENLAU (Denver to Laurel) has a long wait ahead of it! The Valmont coal empty is working on putting its train together and this train won't be moving until the coal train is clear...about two hours later. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102442 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stazio Boulder, CO 1605 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just south of Butte Mill Road, power for the Valmont coal empty pause to give the conductor time to walk to the back of the train to protect a reverse move back to the main line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102441 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stazio Boulder, CO 1743 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Empty hopper cars for the Valmont power plant are spotted on a storage track along the Stazio Fields in Boulder. Here, north of the fields, power for the Valmont train is about to back up and attach to the empty hoppers. Just ahead of the lead unit (in the distance) is the end of the line! Once upon a time, the track continue to UP's Dent Branch, but long gone are those days... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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