Photo ID: 104348 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 2049 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Regional Transportation District Destruction and construction! The concrete tie plant (owned by Rocla) that used to be located just east of BNSF's Rennicks Yard has been moved to Pueblo, CO. The reason? RTD and the FasTracks project! The old building for the tie plant has largely been torn down and can be see way off in the distance. Meanwhile, a lot of construction has already been completed on the new Light Rail flyover. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104347 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 1743 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific An Xcel Energy coal empty comes across the Belt Line headed for North Yard under somewhat glorious, partly cloudy skies. With Xcel Energy making a push to move from coal to natural gas, the days for these hoppers may well be numbered. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104346 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 2077 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific After knocking down a Diverging Approach (yellow over red) signal at Broadway, this train is headed for Utah Junction where it will continue in to the yard on a restricting signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104345 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 1854 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The Belt Industrial Lead (or simply "Belt Line") was used by Rio Grande to interchange with Rock Island and Union Pacific. Now, it is used by Union Pacific for all coal loads headed north or east out of Denver. Or, as in this case, coal empties coming in from the north or east. Manifests use the Belt Line as well, but coal trains are certainly more common. This coal empty is approaching Broadway and the line in to North Yard. The highway in the background is I-25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104344 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP B2.0 Denver, CO 2319 (4 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 7709 is pulling an empty train of coal hoppers out of Xcel Energy's Cherokee power plant. This is a scene that, supposedly, will not be reproducible by the end of 2014. Xcel is in the process of converting the Cherokee plant to run exclusively on natural gas. Once complete, UP will be losing a major coal customer in Denver! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104343 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP B2.0 Denver, CO 1869 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific After picking up a train of empty coal hoppers at Xcel's Cherokee Power Plant in northeast Denver, the crew on this "Public Service" train is headed for North Yard. Upon arriving, swing power will be added as well as power to the rear end and it will depart west for the Energy Mine on the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104241 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 1942 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF Now this looks pretty good! Cascade green is quickly becoming a thing of the past, but it was nice to see a pair of class SD40-2s. BNSF 1652 has undergone a rebuild as is evident from the air conditioner on the cab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104240 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 2022 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF Not long ago, BNSF would frequently use older power on the Beer Run in the form of SD40-2s or something similar. These days, it tends to run with newer power, such as the C44-9W and ES44DC seen here. The SD40-2s will be dropped off in Golden and used on the Golden Switcher (local) in the upcoming week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104239 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 2271 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Beer Run is offering up a lot of "bell and whistle" as it heads west toward Sheridan Blvd. The BNSF train is moving close to UP track gangs working on the new main track. You can see the future Main 2 (with concrete ties) to the left of the train in the picture. The new (freshly ballasted) Arvada Siding is right next to the BNSF track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104238 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 1986 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Beer Train enters the Golden Sub at C&S Junction. The new signals (yet to be activated) that will protect C&S are seen in the foreground. The signal on the right will be for the Golden Sub and the signal on the left will be for Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104236 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 2008 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Until the new main track is actually put in service (expected to be May 2012 at the time of this photo), the new switches at C&S Junction are hand-throw. So, when BNSF's Beer Train comes through, a UP guy on the ground has to manually throw both sides of the crossover (from Main 1 to Main 2), the switch from Main 2 to the Golden Branch and the Derail on the Golden Branch. Here, you can see the Beer Run crossing over from Main 1 to Main 2 and you can also see that the Derail has been properly aligned in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104235 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 1734 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Once the new main track is completed between C&S Junction and Arvada, C&S Junction is going to become a long OS. In other words, there is going to be a great distance between the eastbound and westbound signals. The distance between signals will be nearly a half a mile! Here, BNSF's Beer Train departs from Main 3 in the distance as the yet-to-be-activated new signal for Main 1 stands facing the side in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104214 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 2436 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF After a quick crew change at Fox Junction, the train was stopped for less than 15 minutes! Here, the train is rolling south on Main 2 about two miles south of the yard. In the distance, the tower at Elitch Gardens stands tall. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104213 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 2698 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF At Fox Junction, there is a pedestrian bridge built over the tracks. On my way down off the bridge, this shot through the framework of the bridge caught my eye. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104212 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 2338 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Approaching Fox Junction, this blade train is slowly rolling down BNSF's New North Main at Rennicks. The track to the left of the blade train is UP's main line and the only track visible under CTC. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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