Photo ID: 105226 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 26, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1633 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The grade crossing for Brainard Drive in Broomfield has been moved about 2,000 feet to accommodate BNSF lengthening the siding at Broomfield. Here, you can see where the road used to go (to the left) and where it now goes. The new grade crossing is in the distance on the newly paved road. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105225 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 26, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1706 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF is getting ready to extend the siding at Broomfield by moving the north switch roughly 3,800 feet beyond where it is today. As you can see here, a lot of the initial grading has been completed. The grade crossing in the distance is Brainard Drive. Or at least, it used to be! The grade crossing has been moved (the photographer is standing at the new grade crossing) to allow the old crossing to be closed so the siding can be extended. At the same time, the south end of the siding is being moved north too. The new south switch will lay just north of Nickel Street. This means the siding of Broomfield will no longer have any grade crossings for trains to contend with! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105144 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1739 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's "Longmont Switch" has completed its work at Broomfield and is now on its way back to Longmont. The train just passed underneath the Northwest Parkway and is approaching the south end of Louisville. Note that there is actually a caboose (now referred to as a "shoving platform") on the tail end of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105140 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1667 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF It's pretty great that in 2015, twenty years after the BN / ATSF merger, you can still find C44-9Ws running around in the first (official) BNSF paint scheme. The Heritage scheme didn't last long before being ousted by the Heritage 2 scheme. The Heritage scheme greatly resembled the paint scheme of the Great Northern. The Great Northern used a goat on their herald and, it is for this reason, that these units are often referred to as "Goat Boats". The "boat" portion coming from an old designation of 1st and 2nd generation GE units as "U-Boats". Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105139 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1671 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF On the last day of March, a northbound manifest (most likely headed for Laurel, MT) passes through Broomfield on the main track. With the switches at both ends aligned for the main and no train to meet, the train rolled through town at track speed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105009 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 2, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1655 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Sunlight is rapidly disappearing as the crew of the Buck Local slows near the south end of the siding to hook on to their train. The train consisted of a box car and about a half dozen empty center beam flats. Once they hook up and do an air test, they will get a track warrant from the dispatcher and head back to Longmont. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105008 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 2, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1769 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A pair of light units head south on the siding at Broomfield back toward their train. There is an interesting grade separation between the main and siding at Broomfield. This is because, at one time, they were actually two separate lines for two separate railroads! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105007 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 2, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1959 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A pair of four-axle units, sporting the two most recent BNSF paint schemes, heads north on the main at Broomfield. The train is approaching the 120th Avenue grade crossing. Perhaps "train" is a little generous here, as the crew is running the light power to the north end of Broomfield. Once there, they will back in to the siding to hook on to their train and head north to Longmont. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105006 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 2, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1811 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Buck Local just brought some cars off the Lafayette Branch and dropped them on the siding at Broomfield. The crew got a track warrant to come out on the main and run around the cars to hook on the north end in order to head back to Longmont. Here, the train heads north on the main with a GP39-2R and a B40-8W. This location is supposed to change a lot in the next few years as the city of Broomfield has plans to connection 120th Avenue underneath the tracks. Meaning this shot will eventually include a bridge for the tracks (with 120th Avenue running underneath). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104894 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 11, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1673 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Union Pacific As you may have read in some other captions, Class 1 railroads have been pulling out all the stops and activating older power in order to fill the increased demand in oil trains. The railroads are sharing a lot of power lately, too. Both of these facts are reflected here as a UP C41-8W helps out on this northbound BNSF manifest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104893 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 11, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1890 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Got power? Most trains in 2014 don't have more than three or four units on the point. So it was cool seeing seven on the head end of this manifest. Granted, as you can tell from the exhaust, only the first three units are actually online. The last four units are all DIC (Dead In Consist), probably headed for Cheyenne or possibly the Powder River Basin for coal service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104892 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 11, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield, CO 1667 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF After meeting the southbound HLAUDEN at Broomfield, this northbound manifest now has a track warrant that will take it to MP 43 in Longmont. There is a second coal empty behind this train that will take a bit more time to proceed north as it will have to continuously get new warrants following this northbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104891 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 11, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1783 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Norfolk Southern, BNSF At the north siding switch of Broomfield, the southbound Laurel, MT to Denver, CO manifest takes a "sharp left" and heads in to the siding. The "sharp left" is in railroad terms, of course. The siding and the main at Broomfield are, for the most part, on separate grades and there is quite a bit of distance between them in places. The first of two northbounds the HLAUDEN will meet is sitting on the main, waiting for the train to get in the clear and then to get a track warrant to proceed north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104890 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 11, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1738 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Norfolk Southern, BNSF BNSF's HLAUDEN (High Priority Manifest, Laurel, MT to Denver, CO) is approach the north switch of Broomfield with a very colorful consist. The green "Southern" heritage unit is the third Norfolk Southern heritage unit that I've been fortunate to catch in Colorado. Fairly impressive when there are only 20 of them for a railroad whose nearest rails are in Kansas City! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104889 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 11, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 2122 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Norfolk Southern Here is an obligatory roster shot of Norfolk Southern's "Southern" Heritage Unit. I think this is one of the sharper looking heritage units that Norfolk Southern has. Note the "K" on the cab behind "8099". This is part of a number check system that Southern used. To find the letter, do the following: 1st digit + (2nd digit times 2) + 3rd digit + (4th digit times 2). If doubling a digit results in a two digit number (9 x 2 = 18), then add the two digits together to get a single digit. So 9 x 2 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9. So, using this formula, (8 + 0 + 9 + ((9x2=18), (1+8=9), so 9)) = 26. Subtract that number from the next even multiple of 10. So 30 - 26 = 4. Then, find the letter that corresponds to the calculated number: 0 = A, 1 = F, 2 = H, 2 = J, 4 = K, 5 = L, 6 = R, 7 = T, 8 = W, 9 = X From the calculation above, the single digit number we calculated was "4", and "4" matches "K", which is exactly the letter that is on the cab! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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