Photo ID: 110749 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Broadway Denver, CO 52 (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 56 (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 51 (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 48 (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 52 (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. Photo ID: 110742 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South Platte River Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific A quartet of elephant-style units, two EMD and two GE, lead the MNYGR across a relatively full South Platte River on the Belt Industrial Lead. This is a single track, CTC line that connects North Yard (and the Moffat) with 36th Street (and the Greeley Sub). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110741 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stock Yards Denver, CO 54 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific An SD70ACe leads UP's MNYGR (Manifest from North Yard, CO to Green River, WY). The length of train varies from day-to-day. This Sunday morning, the train is an impressive 142 cars long. Over 8,000 feet in length, including the power. Here, the train is making its way across the Belt Industrial Lead, passing by the Stock Yards and about to cross over York Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110710 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After a layover in Denver on Bypass 1 at North Yard, UP 1943 and its empty westbound oil train is departing on Main 1 at C&S Junction. The four tracks east of C&S Junction, from left to right, are Bypass 1, Bypass 2, Main 3, and the North Yard Siding. At C&S Junction, when heading west, these filter down to just two tracks. From left to right, we have Main 1 and Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110709 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 70 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943 is sitting on Bypass 1, looking at a red signal at C&S Junction (CP DS005). Momentarily, the train will tone up DS-380 to let him know that they are ready to depart west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110708 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 66 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Four units sit on the point of a westbound unit oil empty on Bypass 1, just east of C&S Junction. The conductor is onboard and the train is about read to head west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110707 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943, UP's unit painted in tribute to the US military, was taken off its train by the inbound crew. The outbound crew, which went on duty at 9:45am, brought the power back out to the train. The hand brakes are being knocked off, and it will be ready to depart westbound shortly. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110706 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While searching for UP 1943, which is supposed to be leading a westbound oil train out of Denver later in the day, I came across this old UP SD60M! It was originally delivered as UP 6337 in September 1992. What is the fate of the unit? My guess would be that it is on its way to storage, but I do not know. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110689 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed C&S Jct to Arvada (MP 4.8 to MP MP 7.5) Denver, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A BNSF oil empty passes by the "Gold Strike" commuter station just east of the Sheridan Blvd overpass. The train is westbound on Main 2 with six units on the head end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110688 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Southern Pacific There are only five AC4400CWs still on UP's roster that have not received a full UP repaint. UP 6236 is one such example, still in its original scarlet and gray, with yellow UP patches applied. Here, it sits in North Yard awaiting assignment after arriving on the MGJNY. The unit actually served on the Minturn Local (which hasn't gone as far as Minturn in decades) just a few days ago in the Colorado high country. This was originally SP 257. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110687 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific I'm speculating that UP 4039 has spent some time either in either Southern California or maybe the Houston area in Texas. Those locations tend to attract a lot "taggers"; people that apply graffiti to things. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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