Photo ID: 113384 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 103 (1 Comment Posted) 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 100 (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 76 (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 88 (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 96 (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 92 (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 80 (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 94 (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. Photo ID: 113329 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 634.5 (Sandown) Denver, CO 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific At Sandown, a westbound UP coal empty sits on Main 1 at a red signal. A pair of Canadian National units is the power on the train this morning! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113328 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 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The second of two diners on the morning Zephyr roll by as the train heads west on Main 3 toward C&S Jct. Note the numerous piles of ties lining Main 3, waiting to be installed by a tie gang that is currently working west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113327 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak UP's MGRNY sits on Bypass 2, waiting patiently for its turn to make a reverse move into North Yard. Meanwhile, the morning Zephyr passes by on Main 3, the engineer give a wave out the front windshield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113326 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Jct to Pecos X-Over (MP 3.2 to MP 4.0) Denver, CO 103 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak If you look close, you might notice that there is something a little different about this westbound Zephyr compared to most that head west out of Denver. See it? Unfortunately, for the passengers on the train, there is no Sightseer Lounge car on the train. Instead, the train departed with two dining cars, the second acting as the lounge car for the trip. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113325 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Three units led UP's MGRNY from Green River, WY to North Yard. The train came west on the Moffat at Pecos Crossover on Bypass 2 so it could back into the yard after the MNYGR departs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113324 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 91 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's MGRNY, which ran from Green River, WY to North Yard, CO arrived off the Greeley Sub and came across the Belt. But, instead of heading straight into North Yard, the train came across Bypass 2 and will wait for its counterpart, the MNYGR, to depart before backing into the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113239 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 119 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer is getting close to the end of its 2025 season. It is not quite there yet though, as it sits in Track 5 at Union Station. The train is nearly completed loading and is set for an on time departure at 9am. RMRX 8600, a leased SD40M-2, is leading the train today, along with one of the two Mountaineer GP40-3s. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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