Photo ID: 113391 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Terrill Junction Denver, CO 7 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF At Terrell Junction on the BNSF Golden Sub, BNSF's afternoon "Beer Run" has nearly completed the 12-ish mile trip from the 31st Street Yard out to Coors Lower Yard in Golden. Here at Terrell Junction, the diverging route goes to the lower yard, while the non-diverging route goes to the upper yard. The conductors just threw the switch and is walking back to check sometime further back on the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113390 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 6 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A BNSF yard local is returning to the 31st Street Yard, pushing back into a yard track. Meanwhile, a crew is boarding a pair of SD70ACes that are power on the "Beer Run", getting ready to depart for the Golden Sub to head to Coors. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113389 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 6 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX Not a pair of units I ever expected to see individually in 2025, let alone in a lash-up together! A former Santa Fe SD45-2B and a former Amtrak F40PH are both being moved from California to Iowa. Neither is currently operational, and are being moved "DIC" (Dead-In-Consist). They will be transferred from BNSF to UP here in Denver to continue on to Iowa. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113388 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 5 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BUGX Amtrak's Phase 4 paint scheme has always been my personal least favorite of all of Amtrak's schemes. However, finding it on this retired F40PH is not something I am complaining about! The unit is on its way to Middletown, IA from Anaheim, CA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113387 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 5 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX A look at the engineer's side...such as it is, considering there is no cab...of this SD45-2B. It was pretty fantastic seeing a unit wearing Santa Fe blue and yellow in 2025. Particularly a unit as unique as this one! These B-units were not built by EMD, but were modifications made by Santa Fe. Santa Fe removed the cabs and created the B-units. A total of eight such B-units were created from SD45-2s. One thing worth noting is that some people confuse a B-unit with a slug. A slug has no prime mover, but still has traction motors with power for the motors supplied by other units in its consist. A B-unit still has its prime mover, but simply has no cab and therefore cannot be controlled unless in an MU-consist with other units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113386 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 5 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak This is quite an incredible catch that I lucked into the day before Thanksgiving. This was the very last F40PH (actually, an F40PHR) delivered to Amtrak by EMD. The units were numbered 200 to 409, and were the backbone of the long distance trains on Amtrak through the 1980s and most of the 1990s. As you can see, AMTK 409 is sporting Amtrak's Phase 4 paint scheme. After being retired by Amtrak in 2001, the unit spent years in storage in Bear, DE before being sold to BUGX in private ownership and moved to Anaheim, CA. Here, it is on its way to Middletown, IA, possibly for cosmetic restoration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113385 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 7 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A little GP60 action hanging around in Denver. This particular unit was originally delivered to Santa Fe in the Warbonnet scheme. In the early 1990s, Santa Fe often ran high priority intermodal trains with an A-B-B-A GP60 set. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113384 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 5 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX In the 1970s and 1980s, several railroads had a bit of a fad with B-units. Meaning units without a cab. The units still had a prime mover and traction motors, but could only be controlled when MU'd to other units. Such units are quite rare today, but it just so happened that an SD45-2B was coming through town at BNSF's Engine House today. SPTX 5703 has a bit of a storied history. It was actually originally delivered as a standard SD45-2 (with a cab). In fact, this was the unit that Santa Fe painted in red, white, and blue to celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976. However, in October 1987, Santa Fe converted three SD45-2s into B-units, removing their cabs. ATSF 5703 was one such unit. Note that the dynamic brakes were moved forward to the area where the cab had once been located to help improve cooling. The unit is now owned by a private individual named Noah McCann, and it is reportedly headed to Middletown, IA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113340 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos X-Over to C&S Jct (MP 4.0 to MP 4.8) Denver, CO 43 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific Not too often you can find not just one, but two Canadian National units in Colorado with Longs Peak as the backdrop! It is very interesting that a pair of DC-powered units (DC traction motors) are on a coal empty. These days, it is very rare to find anything other than AC units on coal trains, empty or loaded. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113339 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos X-Over to C&S Jct (MP 4.0 to MP 4.8) Denver, CO 33 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific CN 8840 has stopped and the engineer has killed the headlight. The conductor is on the ground and is working to set hand brakes on a few of the 99 hoppers on the train. A new crew will be called in 3 1/2 hours at 3pm. Until then, the train will sit at C&S Junction and wait. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113338 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos X-Over to C&S Jct (MP 4.0 to MP 4.8) Denver, CO 39 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific A pair of CN units on a westbound UP coal empty are slowing to a stop on Bypass 1 near the RTD station at Federal, just east of the signals at C&S Junction. Piles of ties await a tie gang to get them installed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113337 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed UP Jct to Stock Yard Jct Denver, CO 35 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific CN 8840 and CN 2673, an SD70M-2 and a C44-9W, lead a 99-car coal empty across the South Platte River on UP's Belt Industrial Lead. The train is headed to Bypass 1 at C&S Junction, where it will tie down and wait for the next crew. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113336 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 39 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian National, Union Pacific This coal empty is crosses over I-70 as it heads north toward the connection to the Belt Industrial Lead where it will turn west. This is a scene that is radically different from what you wouldn't seen a decade earlier. At that time, I-70 passes over UP's tracks here on a stretch of bridge called the elevated deck. A massive project created a trench and I-70 is now below (normal) ground level. The tracks, of course, are at the same elevate they have always been at. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113335 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 31 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian National, Union Pacific A pair of Canadian National units lead a West Elk bound coal empty at the north end of 36th Street. You can see a couple long lines of UP power in the distance, currently sitting in long term storage. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113330 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 634.5 (Sandown) Denver, CO 37 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific A Canadian National SD70M-2 and a C44-9W, both DC-traction motor units, lead a westbound UP coal empty on the Limon Sub at Sandown. The train is waiting for signals to continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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