Photo ID: 109966 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 31, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 133 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A trio of C44s leads a northbound UP manifest off the Inbound track and across Sand Creek at Sand Creek Jct. The train is passing through Suncor's oil refinery in Commerce City and is about to cross the BNSF Brush Sub. The line was built in to Denver by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, reaching Denver in 1882. The line would become Burlington Northern's in 1971 after its creation (and absorption of the CB&Q), and finally BNSF in 1995. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109901 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 10, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 199 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific It is hard to believe, but it has been five years (almost to the day) since UP ran a regular freight over the Moffat between Denver and Salt Lake City. The final MRONY (Manifest, Roper, UT to North Yard, CO) ran on December 8, 2018. Any freight traffic running from Denver to Salt Lake on UP now travels on this train. The MNYGR (Manifest, North Yard, CO to Green River, WY). From there, cars are placed on a new train, the MGRRO (Manifest, Green River, WY to Roper, UT). The train is just getting underway out of Denver, passing through Commerce City and crossing Sand Creek by the Suncor refinery. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109617 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 192 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Northeast of Denver is the city of Commerce City. It is appropriately named as there is a lot of commerce that that happens here. Just north of Sand Creek Junction, you can see many yard tracks and multiple businesses with customers in need of cars. A southbound UP manifest on the mainline cuts through the scene about 10 minutes prior to sunset. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109616 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rolla (MP 10.6) Commerce City, CO 158 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 4419 is currently serving as the Rolla switcher. Rolla is a yard just north of Denver that serves as UP's main auto facility for the Denver area. If you purchased a new car in the Denver area, there is a chance it arrived via Union Pacific and was shuffled through Rolla. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109615 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rolla (MP 10.6) Commerce City, CO 187 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A northbound manifest crosses 96th Avenue, just south of Hazeltine. It seems that AC4400CWs are making a bit of a come back. On this particularly afternoon, I saw far more of those than any ES44s. A trio leads this manifest as it heads out of Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109405 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 278 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak It is exceptionally rare to be able to catch the eastbound Zephyr crossing through the diamond at Sand Creek in this type of lighting. Normally, the Zephyr would come through here around 7:45pm (when on time). However, it is 11:30am and the Zephyr is over 16 hours late due to flooding and an out of service track in Nevada the previous day. Here, the train is crossing over Sand Creek in the highly industrial town of Commerce City. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109404 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 206 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A southbound auto and intermodal mixed train crosses Sand Creek on UP's Greeley Sub. The train is crossing the BNSF Brush Sub right underneath (the extremely busy) I-270. The track above the UP power is BNSF's Brush Sub. Above that is a switching lead that BNSF can use to switch cars at the Suncor Oil Refinery. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109403 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 149 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A very short southbound UP intermodal train, consisting of two engines and 11 intermodal cars, pulls on to the inbound track at Sand Creek Jct in Commerce City. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109402 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 194 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF The Suncor Oil Refinery in Commerce City was built around and in between the BNSF Brush Sub and the UP Greeley Sub. A pretty smart way to build it, actually, as it give the refinery access to two railroads for moving product. Of course, when the refinery was built, what is now the BNSF Brush Sub was actually the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy (CB&Q) mainline to Denver from Chicago. Two mergers later (Burlington Northern, and then BNSF), and it is now the BNSF Brush Sub. The UP track, on the other hand, has been UP for all but 10 years of its life. It was originally built by the Denver Pacific Railway in 1870. Ten years later, in 1880, UP bought the Denver Pacific, gaining a direct line to Denver from Cheyenne. In the shot here, a BNSF local sits on the Brush Sub (to the right) while a UP local sits on the Greeley Sub (to the left), both waiting their turn to cross the diamond where the two subdivisions intersect. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109401 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 161 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A northbound UP local sits patiently on the outbound track at Sand Creek, waiting for its turn to get a light across the diamond at which UP's Greeley Sub and BNSF's Brush Sub cross one another. However, the local will have to wait for four trains before it will get its turn to head north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109328 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 331 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak A three hour late westbound Zephyr slowly rolls by the site of a (relatively) minor derailment at the Suncor oil refinery. A dozen or so empty tank cars went down the wrong track and derailed. Fortunately, it sounds as though there were no injuries. The derailment was quite a little ways away from the main, so the Zephyr had no problem getting through the site. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109325 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 285 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A shot looking down the yard track where a dozen or so (empty) tank cars derailed and fell on their sides. The track on the far right is the main, and fortunately was entirely unaffected by the derailment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109324 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 234 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A dozen or so tank car, that fortunately were empty, derailed at the Suncor oil refinery. The track they are on stopped prior to the grade crossing, which has been out of service for years. Appears the cars may have rolled down the track for some unknown reason. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109323 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 267 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF In the early morning hours of June 16, a BNSF local working at the Suncor oil refinery derailed about a dozen empty tank cars on a yard track a little bit off from the mainline. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109296 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 10, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 284 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF After meeting the morning westbound Zephyr at the east end of the 31st Street Yard, the hottest train in or out of Denver, BNSF's ZDENCHI, is rolling by the Suncor Oil Refinery toward the diamond at Sand Creek. BNSF's Brush Sub crosses over UP's Greeley Sub at the diamond (the track in the foreground) which takes UP from Denver to Cheyenne. A trio of elephant-style GEs lead the high priority east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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