Photo ID: 106056 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Denver, CO 2067 (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 1825 (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 1935 (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 1750 (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 1779 (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 1897 (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 2556 (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 2385 (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 1774 (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 1767 (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. Photo ID: 106043 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1611 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, DRGQ A lattice structure of beams construct the framework that, among other things, supports a large crane that can roll on rails along the top of the framework. All things are silent here at Burnham now, just month away from being wiped from the landscape. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106042 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1738 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A look at Track 22 on the north side of Building #1 at Burnham. In a matter of months, this building (along with everything but two tracks) at Burnham will be gone. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106041 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1789 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Until recently, with the closing of Burnham, you could find a transfer table here in this pit. If you are unfamiliar with a transfer table, it is similar to a turn table. But instead of rotating, it moving vertically back and forth to allow cars and engines to be put in different stalls in the buildings. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106040 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1985 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande A fair number of Rio Grande cabooses have actually survived well past the end of the caboose era and the end of Rio Grande. One such example is caboose 01447, which is seen here in Burnham Yard in pristine condition. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106039 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1801 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Classic Rio Grande crane #027 as seen sitting on a track on the west edge of Burnham. The crane, once used to assist in the cleanup of derailments or any heavy maintenance, will soon be finding a new home with the closing of Burnham four months earlier. 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