Photo ID: 105795 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 48th Avenue Denver, CO 1872 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF has completed a project to extend its two coal tracks in Denver to the east. The tracks used to end near I-70 overpass in the distance. The project added another 2,500 feet to each track. Here, a Lincoln, NE-bound eastbound departs the yard on a clear signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105794 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 48th Avenue Denver, CO 2116 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Denver to Lincoln manifest was not short on power on this Sunday morning! Cut in the middle of the six units actually online were a trio of GP60M-3s. These are rebuilds by Morrison-Knudsen. Always good to see older power being rebuilt and reused. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105793 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 1603 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The traction motors that power the wheels are electric motors (which is why train engines are referred to as "diesel-electric"). Because they are electric, there are no gears, which means the engine can operate the same regardless of whether it is moving forward or backward. Thus, it doesn't matter which way DPU units are facing. On this morning, the last unit was facing forward, showing its long hood to the world! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105792 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 1539 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of units facing nose-to-nose bring up the tail end of a westbound Denver to Provo manifest at Pecos. In the distance, you can see the Pecos Street overpass. Ultimately built because Pecos Street was constantly blocked by coal trains on Bypass 1 and 2. Ironic that coal is virtually non-existent now! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105791 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 1645 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just west of Pecos on Main 3, a BNSF trackage rights manifest heads west on clear signals. Three GEs (each a different model) lead the train. It wouldn't see another train until it met the eastbound Zephyr on the western slope! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105790 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 1573 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF BNSF's Denver to Provo heads west on Main 3 at the west end of the Pecos Crossover. The power, which includes a CitiRail leaser on the point, was the same power from the Provo to Denver the day before. Which I happened to shoot at Leyden! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105789 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 1621 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF Because of the light traffic levels of late, BNSF's Denver to Provo typically runs on UP's main between Fox Jct and Utah Jct (whereas, when things are busy, it usually uses BNSF's main track between those points and crosses over at Utah Jct). No doubt sticking to UP's main is faster! Here, the tank-dominated train is moving at track speed at the Pecos crossover. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105788 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1753 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The main entrance to the Burnham Shops off of Seminole Road. The gates for Burnham were still open on this morning. But that will only be the case for another week. The gates closed permanently on Valentine's Day, 2016. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105787 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2008 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Empty rails. Sadly, after being the main maintenance facility for Rio Grande for decades (and a major facility for UP as well for nearly two decades), Burnham Shops are closing. All the power that was once stored here has been moved to places such as North Platte, NE and Grand Junction, CO. Soon, these tracks and the buildings will be ripped up and this scene will turn from railroad/industrial to residential. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105786 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1896 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande In a couple of years, this picture will be radically different! The track in the foreground, one of RTD's Light Rail tracks, will still be there. And the the next track over will likely still be there (so UP can serve a few customers along the line), but the rest of the tracks and the buildings will all be replaced with condos and apartments as UP has sold the Burnham property to a developer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105785 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1774 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A rack of "blue flags" sits alongside the empty tracks at Burnham. While you expect Rio Grande power to disappear over time and things like signals to be replaced, I have to admit I never really thought about the possibility of Burnham closing. Definitely came as a shock. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105784 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1797 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The main engine shops at Burnham. As of this picture, Burnham only had a week of life left in it. No work, other than cleanup, is happening inside those buildings. Only a skeleton crew of workers remains to facilitate the cleanup. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105783 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1828 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande One of the many buildings at Burnham, soon to torn down as Rio Grande's main maintenance facility approaches the end of its life. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105782 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2000 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A Rio Grande caboose and a green maintenance of way boxcar sit on the west side of the yard at Burnham. All the power that had been stored here has already been moved elsewhere in preparation for the shop closing for good seven days after this picture. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105756 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennyson Street Denver, CO 1738 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you look in the distance on the right side of the frame, you'll see a trio of units on the move between the two halves of this coal load. Normally, the swing helpers on a coal train would be cut out at Pecos Street. However, on this day, a coal train was already sitting on Bypass 2, preventing the swing helpers from using the Pecos Street Crossover. So, the train had to stop at C&S Junction to set out the helpers. This was, no doubt, very frustrating for motorists on Lowell Blvd. The back half of the train blocked traffic while the units were set out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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