Photo ID: 110828 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 167 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern de Mexico So in this shot, we have a Canadian unit in CP 8860 and a Mexican unit in KCSM 4548 sit in the middle of the US here in Denver. Of course, both these units are now owned by CPKC, the first (and so far only) railroad to span from Canada to Mexico. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110827 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 144 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF I have long appreciated the fact that, when patching old Santa Fe and Burlington Northern units, BNSF matched the color scheme for the patches. Unlike UP, which simply slapped a yellow and red patch on the cabs. Nearly 30 years after the BNSF merger, a blue and yellow GP39-2 is seen hanging out around the Denver yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110826 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 174 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Unlike UP, which has essentially moved all maintenance out of Denver, BNSF still has a fair amount of maintenance that takes places in Denver. Additionally, BNSF tends to have more power hanging out in Denver compared to UP. As seen here, the service and ready tracks around the shops are packed full of power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110825 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 174 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Kansas City Southern de Mexico A pair of KCS units sit on ready tracks at BNSF's engine facility in Denver. KCS 4548 is actually a KCS de Mexico unit, and one of the few-remaining gray units on the roster. Of course, both units are now under the CPKC banner and, eventually, will be repainted accordingly. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110824 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 154 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian Pacific, BNSF In a sea of BNSF orange is a single spot of red with a Canadian Pacific ES44AC. I don't see a lot of these units in Denver, and with the CPKC merger, it is only a matter of time before this paint scheme fades in to history. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110823 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 180 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific With the cost and seemingly frequent mechanical issues of Tier-4 locomotives, many railroads have taken to rebuilding rather than buying new. UP is no exception, as they have been rebuilding C44-9Ws, C44AC-CTEs, and others into C44ACMs. UP 5830 is a good example, as it sports UP's newest official scheme on the ready tracks in North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110822 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 166 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A pair of SD60Ms sit on a shop track in North Yard. UP 2465 was delivered to UP in March 1992 and UP 2498 was delivered to UP in October 1992. 32 years later and both units are still on the roster. I don't recall the last time I saw an SD60M on the main, so not entirely sure where these two units came from or where they are headed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110821 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 135 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An SD60M, with a bit of a sketchy paint scheme, sits on a shop track in North Yard. Not sure where the unit is headed from here. Storage? Sale? Rebuild? Any of the three seems like a possibility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110820 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 204 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Of UP's six heritage units, UP 1983 is the one I had not seen the longest (eight years earlier, as of this shot). The angle and clutter in the shot isn't great, but I still wanted to get a shot while it was in Denver. It is currently sitting on the ready track in Denver, awaiting its next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110750 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Broadway Denver, CO 243 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Rocky Mountaineer, Union Pacific A pair of UP SD70Ms...the same that the Rocky Mountaineer has borrowed for the last few seasons...are once again leading the Rocky Mountaineer west across the Belt Line. It is currently passing Copeland Lake just east of I-25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110749 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Broadway Denver, CO 198 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Rocky Mountaineer, Union Pacific The Sunday Rocky Mountaineer is headed west across the Belt Industrial Lead, working on getting out of Denver for its journey west to Moab. The train passes through some pretty industrial areas before getting to the western suburbs, leaving the city behind. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110748 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cherokee Power Station Denver, CO 160 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots XCLX Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station, northeast of Denver, generates over a terawatt of electricity for the power grid. Until 2017, the station was powered by coal. Since then, however, the plant is powered by natural gas. Over a hundred Xcel Energy coal hoppers sit idle at the plant, their final disposition as yet unknown. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110747 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cherokee Power Station Denver, CO 152 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots XCLX This blue building houses a rotary dump. When coal trains powered the power plant here, trains were pulled through this building. One car at a time, the car was secured to the track and the entire car was rotated upside down to dump out the coal. Underground conveyor belts took the coal to the plant. This rotary dump has now been silent for seven years, likely to never be active again, as the power plant is now entirely fueled by natural gas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110746 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cherokee Power Station Denver, CO 146 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots XCLX Echoes of the Past At Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station in northeast Denver, a string of Xcel Energy owned coal hoppers sit silent on slowly rusting rails. Until 2017, the plant was powered by coal from the Colorado high country. For the last seven years, the plant has been fired exclusively by natural gas. The coal trains were emptied in the rotary dump within the blue building to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110743 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South Platte River Denver, CO 165 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific This Phase 2 SD70M is crossing over the South Platte River as the fourth unit on an eastbound (soon to be northbound) manifest. The top of the unit has definitely seen some better days as rust has set in across the gray. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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