Photo ID: 101543 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, August 25, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 2014 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific On the morning of Saturday, August 25, 2007, UP 844 led a passenger special down the joint line. It was the first (public) passenger train on the Joint Line since 1997. This is how the day started out for me. Steam rising up in front of Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101542 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 3402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific, Rio Grande A waxing gibbous moon rise over Union Station while UP 1989 sits on Track 3 behind UP 844. Tomorrow, the units along with the UP passenger cars behind them will make the 240-mile round-trip from Denver to Pueblo and back for the 2007 Colorado State Fair. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101541 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 3540 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific Getting close to 9 o'clock at night and UP 844 rests quietly awaiting its busy day tomorrow. In the meantime, we enjoy something of a flash-back to yesteryear when steam-powered trains frequented Union Station on a daily basis. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101540 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 2485 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific Sometimes you have to get "down and dirty". In the last few seconds (literally) of sunlight, I grabbed this rail-level shot of UP 844 and the Colorado State Fair special. Yes, that is the Rio Grande Heritage Unit (UP 1989) as the diesel helper. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101539 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 3081 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific There are railfans in the world that could tell you what ever single lever, rod and hose in this shot are used for. I am not one of those railfans (I'm more of a diesel-era railfan), but I find the complexity of the machinery fascinating nonetheless! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101538 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 2477 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific Just minutes before sunset, the low sun casts a nice shadow across the front of UP 844. The steam engine was built in the 1940's for Union Pacific and was in fact the last steam engine delivered to UP. A fitting tribute to an era many decades gone now. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101537 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 3019 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific Who knows if this shot will ever be possible again! First of all, passenger trains seldom pull power-first into Union Station. Second, the Union Station redevelopment project is going to allegedly bury the station tracks, making it hard to get trains and Union Station in the same shot! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101536 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver Union Station Denver, CO 2627 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Union Pacific UP 844 and train are in town for the first passenger special run on the Joint Line in 10 years! The summer of 1997 was the last run, with UP 844 in fact! In that year, the special turned west at Pueblo to head over Tennessee Pass. This run will turn around in Pueblo (for the Colorado State Fair) and return to Denver on the Joint Line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101518 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos Crossover (DS004) Denver, CO 1856 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load passes through the crossover at Pecos Street. The coal train, on Bypass 2, is approaching the grade crossing at Pecos, no doubt preparing to frustrate dozens of drivers on Pecos as the crossing is blocked! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101517 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 20th Street Denver, CO 1927 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF In the foreground, a BNSF manifest heads south on Main One at MP 0.0 on the Pikes Peak Subdivision. In the distance, UP's South Local waits for its turn to head south on the Joint Line to perform its thrice-weekly switching. The strange obstruction at the top of the picture in the HOV ramp from I-25 to Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101516 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 20th Street Denver, CO 2122 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific UP's South Local sits patiently waiting on UP's Main track leading from Prospect Junction to 20th Street. The local is staring down a red signal (where ownership of the track also switches from UP to BNSF) as the Brush Sub dispatcher has already cleared a BNSF manifest to come out of 31st Street and head south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101513 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Roydale Denver, CO 2160 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific In the 70's and 80's, you could always count on Union Pacific for a unique power combination. A GP30 followed by a DD35B followed by an SD24, or some such lashup. Today, unique power is harder to come by. However, this GP40-2/GP60/GP38-2/GP38-2 lashup isn't too bad! UP's Roydale Local is getting ready for a full day of switching. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101512 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Dahila Street Denver, CO 1854 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Just east of Dahlia Street, BNSF's industrial lead for the area curves around to the north. Eventually, it curves to the west and the to the south, connecting with itself to make one giant loop. Industries can be served off the loop. A BNSF GP15-1 got the call today for the Market Street Local. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101511 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Dahila Street Denver, CO 1802 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Near the 4700 (N) block of Dahlia street, we see BNSF's Market Street Local switching some boxcars around for some of the industries in the area. This part of is still very active when it comes to trains and locals and businesses that depend on trains for shipping or receiving their goods! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101510 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 13, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Colorado Blvd Denver, CO 1919 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Just west of Colorado Blvd, BNSF tracks cross over former Denver Rock Island (now Union Pacific) tracks. The line above originates to the north (right) at Sand Creek off BNSF's Brush Sub. It is an industrial lead track that services several industries northeast of I-70 and Colorado Blvd. The lower track was once the CRIP's (Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific) line into town to connect with the Rio Grande's Belt Line. In the future, Union Pacific has plans to add a second track and send coal traffic to the Limon Sub via the CRIP! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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