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Photo ID: 109576
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
North of Hazeltine
Brighton, CO
277
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A well-blocked northbound manifest leaves Denver behind between the sidings of Hazeltine and Brighton. The train has a quartet of units on the point, include an SD40-2.
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Photo ID: 109545
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Hazeltine (8,232ft)
Brighton, CO
240
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A northbound manifest headed for North Platte sits in the siding at Hazeltine. UP 2632 and UP 8815 provide the power with UP 1370 catching a ride. The size of the newer units compared to the 50 year old GP40-2 is very apparent!
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Photo ID: 109544
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Hazeltine (8,232ft)
Brighton, CO
254
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
One of the 200 Tier-4 compliant ET44ACs that UP owns leads a northbound MDVNP in the siding at Hazeltine, just north of Denver. GE has, as of this photo, sold 1,117 Tier-4 units to six Class 1 railroads. By comparison, EMD has sold only 100 Tier-4 compliant SD70ACe-T4s, all to UP.
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Photo ID: 109543
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Hazeltine (8,232ft)
Brighton, CO
255
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A GP40-2 is third out on a northbound manifest headed for North Platte, NE. With the closure of Burnham in Denver, no major repairs can be done in Denver. More than likely, the unit is headed to the shops there for maintenance. Incidentally, this particularly GP40-2 was originally DRGW 3119.
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Photo ID: 109542
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Hazeltine (8,232ft)
Brighton, CO
328
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
The Denver skyline and Rocky Mountains stand clear in the distance as a northbound manifest rolls on the siding at Hazeltine, meeting a southbound. Love how the view shows the Greeley Sub continuing straight toward the city.
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Photo ID: 109541
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Hazeltine (8,232ft)
Brighton, CO
238
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A rather long local, consisting largely of covered hoppers, sits on the main at Hazeltine, just north of 112th Avenue. The train is following another southbound, sitting between switches ahead on the main. The local is hanging out of the north end of the siding. Fortunately, nothing else is coming south at the moment.
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Photo ID: 109540
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Hazeltine (8,232ft)
Brighton, CO
277
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A pair of SD70Ms leads a local south on the main at Hazeltine, the last siding north of Denver on the Greeley Sub. The train is currently stopped as a second train, a manifest, is stopped ahead of the local. They are both waiting on a northbound manifest that will take the siding.
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Photo ID: 109539
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Brighton (8,203ft)
Brighton, CO
220
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A single UP ES44AC heads north through the through the siding at Brighton. I honestly have no clue where this lone unit was coming from or where it was headed! Part of a local? Off to rescue a train? Not sure. But the scene looks nice at sunset creeps closer and closer.
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Photo ID: 109527
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Brighton (8,203ft)
Brighton, CO
259
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A local picks up a string of hoppers from an industry. Unfortunately, due to the location of the switch and the length of the train, the north switch at Brighton is blocked, preventing the coal empty on the siding from being able to continue north.
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Photo ID: 109526
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Brighton (8,203ft)
Brighton, CO
247
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific
This coal empty was holding south of the siding of Brighton so as not to block grade crossing through town. When the southbound it was meeting showed up, the train pulled in to the siding. However, nobody informed the crew that the southbound is a local that is blocking the north end of the siding, preventing the coal empty from leaving! So the crossing in Brighton wound up blocked for over 30 minutes anyway.
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Photo ID: 109525
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Brighton (8,203ft)
Brighton, CO
236
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific
A CP ES44AC and a KCS SD70ACe lead a northbound coal empty through the siding at Brighton, passing alongside a few yard tracks that currently lay empty. These hoppers were pulled from Jansen, CO on the Raton Sub near Trinidad.
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Photo ID: 109524
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
Brighton (8,203ft)
Brighton, CO
245
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A pair of SD70Ms serve as the power on a local that originated from La Salle earlier in the day. It is now stopped on the main at Brighton has the string of covered hoppers to the left need to be picked up by the local. The cars behind the power will be spotted in their place.
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Photo ID: 109024
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, March 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
CP W021 (North Brighton)
Brighton, CO
332
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
At the north switch of Brighton, UP 8832 has this auto rack train up to track speed, running on clear (green) signals. The train, which includes two heritage units, is heading north to Cheyenne, but ironically, its final destination is to the south in Laredo, TX.
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Photo ID: 109023
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, March 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
South of Brighton
Brighton, CO
262
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
A colorful consist of seven units leads a northbound auto rack train underneath the E-470 overpass between Hazeltine and Brighton on UP's Greeley Sub. In the consist, we have UP 1988 (Katy heritage unit) 2nd, UP 1989 (DRGW heritage unit) 5th, and a Norfolk Southern unit 6th.
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Photo ID: 109022
Date Shot
Photo By
Sunday, March 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan
Location
Times Viewed
South of Brighton
Brighton, CO
338
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Subdivision
Railroad
Greeley (UP) Union Pacific
After spending about 45 minutes putting their train together and running an air test, seven units lead this light auto rack train north on the Greeley Sub. In the foreground, an SUV passes by, likely unaware of the approaching train, on the E-470 toll road that partially loops around Denver.
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