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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Cherokee Power Station
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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XCLX
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This blue building houses a rotary dump. When coal trains powered the power plant here, trains were pulled through this building. One car at a time, the car was secured to the track and the entire car was rotated upside down to dump out the coal. Underground conveyor belts took the coal to the plant. This rotary dump has now been silent for seven years, likely to never be active again, as the power plant is now entirely fueled by natural gas.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Cherokee Power Station
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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XCLX
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Echoes of the Past
At Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station in northeast Denver, a string of Xcel Energy owned coal hoppers sit silent on slowly rusting rails. Until 2017, the plant was powered by coal from the Colorado high country. For the last seven years, the plant has been fired exclusively by natural gas. The coal trains were emptied in the rotary dump within the blue building to the left.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Stock Yards
Denver, CO
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Belt Industrial Lead (UP)
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Union Pacific
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An SD70ACe leads UP's MNYGR (Manifest from North Yard, CO to Green River, WY). The length of train varies from day-to-day. This Sunday morning, the train is an impressive 142 cars long. Over 8,000 feet in length, including the power. Here, the train is making its way across the Belt Industrial Lead, passing by the Stock Yards and about to cross over York Street.
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Monday, July 8, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS005 (C&S Junction)
Denver, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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After a layover in Denver on Bypass 1 at North Yard, UP 1943 and its empty westbound oil train is departing on Main 1 at C&S Junction. The four tracks east of C&S Junction, from left to right, are Bypass 1, Bypass 2, Main 3, and the North Yard Siding. At C&S Junction, when heading west, these filter down to just two tracks. From left to right, we have Main 1 and Main 2.
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Sunday, July 7, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
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There are only five AC4400CWs still on UP's roster that have not received a full UP repaint. UP 6236 is one such example, still in its original scarlet and gray, with yellow UP patches applied. Here, it sits in North Yard awaiting assignment after arriving on the MGJNY. The unit actually served on the Minturn Local (which hasn't gone as far as Minturn in decades) just a few days ago in the Colorado high country. This was originally SP 257.
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