Photo ID: 108349 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 10, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 871 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A pair of SD70ACes lead a Vestas wind train off the Belt Industrial Lead and in to North Yard. The train will actually be turned over to BNSF and will continue south on the Joint Line toward Texas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108348 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 10, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 987 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The mercury hits triple digits (101°F) on a very hot summer day as a North Yard remote job switches cars in the storage yard. In the background, a train carrying wind nacelles enters in to the yard from the Belt Industrial lead, crossing BNSF's North Main and UP's own Moffat Tunnel Sub Main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108347 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 10, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 1009 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After letting a BNSF baretable train through Utah Junction on the BNSF main, UP DS-86 lined this windmill train in to North Yard off the Belt Industrial Lead. The train loaded at the Vestas Plant in Brighton. The pair of SD70ACes look good on the point! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108294 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 1492 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak As the Zephyr pulls out of Denver Union Station to leave the urban setting behind, it passes by the player parking lot of Coors Field, where the Colorado Rockies play when at home. This is a scene that has changed drastically in the last two decades. Most of the buildings visible in the immediate area behind the train did not exist in 2000. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108293 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 1170 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak With its station stop at Denver complete, the Zephyr starts to pull away from the station in Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo) on Track 4. The tracks to the left of the train are RTD commuter rail tracks out to Denver International Airport (the A-Line) and the north line (the N-Line). The tracks to the right are RTD commuter rail tracks out to Arvada and Westminster (the B-Line and G-Line). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108292 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 1400 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is currently stopped on Track 4 at Union Station, making its morning stop. It is just waiting on a signal from the RTD dispatcher in order to depart and head west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108291 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 956 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A look from above the MGJNY as it stops to align some switches in the yard at North Yard. The train is sitting on the North Yard siding, underneath one of the last-remaining Rio Grande signal bridges. If you are wondering why there are only two sets of signals, yet three tracks crossing under the bridge, it is because the track to the right of the train is not signaled. It is the North Yard Lead and the dispatcher cannot see that track on his or her display. Only the track the train is on (the siding) and the track to the left (the main) are visible to the dispatcher. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108290 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 1026 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This shot really shows the interesting layout of the track at Utah Junction. This MGJNY is coming in to the yard from the North Yard siding. Alongside the train is the Moffat mainline that continues down to Fox Jct and Prospect Jct. The Belt Industrial Lead crosses the main and also the BNSF main to the right side of the image. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108289 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 939 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The eastbound MGJNY passes underneath on of the few-remaining Rio Grande signal bridges to be found in 2020. This is right at Utah Junction and the train is entering in to North Yard off of the North Yard Siding. The overnight trip from Grand Junction is almost complete. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108288 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 955 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The MGJNY passes by the old water tower on the North Yard Siding, making its final approach in to North Yard. If you follow the train back through the frame, you can see just how far it extends to the west as the train is over 9,100 feet in length today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108192 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1005 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The area around has changed a lot over the decades, but by-and-large North Yard has remained the same for those same decades. This, along with Roper in Salt Lake, was Rio Grande’s main classification yard. Under SP, the yard was packed full still as many trains ran on the Moffat from the Pacific Northwest to Texas. Under UP, however...particularly in the last few years...traffic has dropped off quite a bit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108191 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 885 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This shot offers a good overview of Utah Junction at the north end of North Yard. The tracks on the right, with the lighter ballast, are BNSF. They funnel down and cross UP’s Belt Line before continuing on to the Front Range Sub. UP’s Main is the first track to the left of BNSF’s and is the mainline that heads west to the Moffat and beyond.Tracks to left of that are part of North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108190 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1042 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1996 was painted in honor of Southern Pacific, which became part of Union Pacific in September 1996. About four years after that merger, UP 4395 was delivered as part of 1,000 unit order of SD70Ms. Crazy to think it has been nearly 24 years since UP and SP merged. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108189 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1240 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Southern Pacific UP 1996, one of UP’s six heritage units, sits on one of the ready tracks in North Yard on a June afternoon. It is, perhaps, somewhat ironic that exactly 14 years ago that UP 1989, the Rio Grande Heritage Unit, sat a few hundred yards from this location under a tarp, waiting to be unveiled! UP 1996 is, of course, Southern Pacific’s heritage unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108188 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1244 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1996 sits among a few other units in North Yard. It came in on the MNPNY yesterday and, after being fueled, is now waiting for its next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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