Photo ID: 103288 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1917 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Whoa! Hello 1980's flashback! Two SD60s and two B40-8s sit on a "dead line" on the east side of the Burnham Shops. Once revenue picks back up as the economy (eventually) recovers, these units may be put back into service. Then again, they may be destined for short lines or even scrappers. Time will tell. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103287 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2463 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Every locomotives that comes out of either Erie, PA (GE) or London, ON (EMD) has a unique serial number stamped somewhere on the frame (called a frame number). This can be useful for railfans because, if a frame number can be found, the original unit to roll out of the factory can then be identified. Here is the frame number on UP 1350 (originally DRGW 3100). The number is 7360-7. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103286 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2838 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande On the north side of the Burnham Shops, we find this friendly face hanging out waiting for some final servicing! This was DRGW 3100, the very last Rio Grande geep to get a UP patch. That happened just over four years prior to this picture, on January 31, 2006. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103285 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2175 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific This shot looks down along the lower half of the stilt tracks on the east side of the Burnham Shop. You can see the trucks to another unit to the left side of the shot. You can also see the platform above that allows for easy access to the top half of UP 6545. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103284 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An example of an AC4400CW on one of the stilt tracks at Burnham. On these tracks, maintenance can easily be performed on the top half of the unit from the platform above, on the outside of the trucks from the stilts, or underneath the unit as seen on the bottom half of the picture. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103283 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Southern Pacific The east side of the shops have tracks on stilts that are three wide and each track can have four units. So a total of 12 units can be worked on at a time. Here, at the south end of the shop, three units are currently being worked on. UP 6199 (ex-SP 152) is getting its water drained. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103282 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1868 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific This shot shows how the lower half of a locomotive is relatively easy to access by virtue of having the locomotive on stilts. Cabinets to the right contain parts needed for the this part of the maintenance cycle. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103281 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1928 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While the platform above allows mechanics easy access to the top half of the locomotives, here we see how access is made easy to the trucks and lower half of the locomotive. The rails in the east side of the shop are literally on stilts. This way, the trucks and lower components on the locomotive are at eye level for mechanics performing work. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103280 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1850 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 6919 sits on one of the servicing tracks, awaiting some electrical work. There are several logical "slots" where units are stopped in here and platforms extend across the tracks between the locomotives. The platform here is level with the platform on the unit, allowing for easy access when working. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103279 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2064 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While major work such as removing prime movers, changing alternators and traction motors is done on the west side of the shop, the "minor" work (electrical, etc) is done on the east side of the shop. Burnham today is actually a General Electric shop with a mix of GE and UP employees, so the vast majority of the units serviced are GE. However, an EMD unit will wonder in for maintenance from time to time. On this day, we only spotted a single SD9043MAC, UP 8217, seen in the distance here in this shot. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103278 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1855 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The portion of the long hood that covers up the prime mover has been removed from UP 6907. A crane operator lowers the hood to the floor as mechanics start to look at the prime mover on the left side of the photo. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103277 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1934 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific This kind of gives new meaning to the term "getting under the hood"! A section of the long hood on diesel-electric locomotives can be lifted off with a crane, exposing the entire prime mover, allowing for maintenance. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103276 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1950 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Here is the heart of a GE AC6000CW locomotive! This is General Electric's 7HDL-16 prime mover. The lack of success with the 6000 HP experiment is resulting in these engines being removed in favor of the 7FDL-16, a 4400 HP engine. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103275 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 1823 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The unit to my left has had its 6000 HP prime mover removed and is waiting for a new 4400 HP prime mover. Meanwhile, UP 6907 (which was converted to 4400 HP about a year ago) awaits a standard inspection. (Photo taken with Union Pacific Permission during an official tour with the Rocky Club) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103274 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 19, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Shops Denver, CO 2250 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific I didn't really realize how compartmentalized diesel-electric locomotives were! You can see all the electrical cables bundled together at the front of the long hood. This unit is waiting for a new 4400 HP prime mover to be lowered in it. 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