Photo ID: 106151 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 1784 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A pair of recently-repainted (and recently-rebuilt) SD40-2s, now designated as SD40Ns, roll in to the yard at 36th Street off the Outbound Main after spotting a string of empty well cars on a house track. In my opinion, the "baby wings" look very good on the nose of the SD40N. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106150 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 1592 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While waiting for UP 844 to depart north toward Cheyenne, this local train (with a half dozen tank cars) rolls off the inbound main in to the yard at 36th Street. Interestingly, the GP38-2 working is numbered 825. This was once the number of one of UP's 4-8-4 "Northern" class steam engines, just like UP 844! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106149 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 1942 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The day after the Cheyenne Frontier Days train had a successful run with UP 844, the train is now completing its process of wying (turning around) in Denver. UP 844 will need to take on water (in the "water bottle") before departing for Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106148 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 2427 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Ed Dickens, currently manager of UP Heritage Operations (including the steam program) is behind the throttle of UP 844 as the Cheyenne Frontier Days train rolls past York Street. Dickens is giving the whistle a good pull across the grade crossing. A number of people, some on duty, some guests, join Dickens in the cab of 844. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106147 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 1858 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific After three years of being in the shops, UP 844 has nearly completed its first round trip back on the rails. A partial rainbow forms in the eastern sky as the train rolls down the Inbound Main at York Street, its final stop to let its passengers off less than a mile ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106056 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Denver, CO 2005 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF You can almost still smell the fresh paint! GE's Tier-4 compliant engines just started showing up toward the end of 2015. The standard model is designated the ET44AC. BNSF has chosen to order a variant on that model and, thus far, has exclusively received the ET44C4. Rather than being C-C trucks, these have A1A-A1A trucks, same as the ES44C4 before them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106052 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 1772 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Regional Transportation District On April 22, 2016, RTD opened the "A Line" commuter rail line that runs from Union Station to Denver International Airport. While Denver has had "Light Rail" trains for 20 years, "Commuter Rail" is new to Denver. These trains are heavier, take more "juice" to run (from the catenary overhead), have more seats, and can move at 79 MPH (versus 55 MPH for Light Rail). Here, a train from DIA arrives at Track 1. A crowd of people await to board for the trip east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106051 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1883 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A lot of the yard tracks at Burnham have been removed as of the beginning of June 2016. UP has shut down the shops and will most likely sell the land to a developer. Soon, this view will likely be filled with condos! To see the progress crews are making, compare this picture to one I took in February, one week prior to the shops being closed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106050 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1697 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The crew working to rip up and remove the yard tracks from Burnham have done a very effective job! Little evidence that there were once tracks here remain as a dirt field is all that is visible now. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106049 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1717 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A few months ago, this shot was filled with empty yard tracks at Burnham Yard. A few months before that and you would have found lots of power stored on (or waiting for maintenance on) those tracks. Now, the tracks have been removed with the closing of Burnham Yard. Ties from the yard tracks are piling up, waiting to be hauled away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106048 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1842 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The Burnham Shops were built in the 1870s and, when it was at its peak, the shops included a foundry and a blacksmith and the shops could build new railcars from the ground up. When the City of Denver wanted to build the 8th Avenue overpass, the main shops were smack in the middle of where 8th Avenue would run. So, the city built the overpass with a bend in it and it went around the south end of the building. Here is said building (Building #14) with the overpass in front of it. After (roughly) 140 years, Burnham Shops shut down on Valentine's Day, 2016. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106047 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2479 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande A huge pile of tie plates sits in an open dirt field at Burnham. The tie plates used to lie underneath the rails of the "coach yard" on the west side of Burnham. Now, only a single track remain intact...and that track has DRGW 3006 - in additional to other equipment - currently resting on it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106046 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2311 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A pair of tracks runs down toward Buildings 2 and 3. In order to access any of the doors in those buildings, cars or engines would be placed on a transfer table. The transfer table has since been sold at auction with the closing of Burnham. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106045 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1724 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A look toward the main buildings at Burnham as seen from the west northwest side of the lot. It is very strange to see the entire place quiet as Union Pacific closed the shop for good on February 14, 2016. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106044 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1714 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A huge crane could be found at Burnham, used for any number of types of heaving lifting once done here. In the Rio Grande days, Burnham was the main maintenance facility for the railroad for both engines and rolling stock. Now, 28 years after the end of Rio Grande, its maintenance facility is in the process of being torn down. Major maintenance for UP will now be done in Little Rock, AR, or North Platte, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

Previous Page     Next Page