Photo ID: 110401 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 205 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A GP38-2 (now designated as a GP38N after a rebuilt by UP) and an SD40-2 sit together near the yard office in North Yard. These two units are idle at the moment, but when needed, they'll be used as switcher in the yard. It is pretty easy to trace the heritage of UP 737 by virtue of the fact that it has no dynamic brakes. With very few exception, nearly any unit without dynamic brakes is of Missouri Pacific heritage. MoPac ordered many units that had no dynamic brakes as MoPac ran in (relatively) flat lands. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110400 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 242 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The ZLBDV has arrived in Denver and is currently shoving cars back in to the intermodal facility located just off of UP's 36th Street Yard. This entire area, known as the Rhino District of Denver, has radically changed in the past 10-15 years. Massive apartment complexes have built up all around the yard. New restaurants have opened in the area and new bridges cross the yard to connect either side of the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110399 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 246 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Rio Grande caboose 01447 has been saved from the scrapper. It was donated to the Forney Museum of Transportation and it sits in the parking lot of the museum. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110398 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 210 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver has a lot of great, classic equipment. Trains, cars, motorcycles, and even a few small planes. One of the "crown jewels" of the train collection is UP 4005. It is one of only 25 that were produced between 1941 and 1944. This particular one is "stuffed" meaning it is no longer operable. But it looks pretty great sitting inside the museum, safe and protected from the outside conditions of the world. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110397 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 214 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande The Forney Museum has done a great job of working on restoration of DRGW 3006. The graffiti has all been cleaned off, and the class lights and Mars lights have been restored. I really liked this perspective, looking up toward the number board and nose from the ground inside the Forney Museum. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110396 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 233 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Six years prior to this shot, DRGW 3006 was moved from Burnham to this location inside the Forney Transportation Museum. To the best of my knowledge, it is one of only two Rio Grande GP30s that have been preserved as Rio Grande units, both being in Colorado. In my very early days of rail photography back in 1997, I actually got a very similar shot (in terms of perspective) of DRGW 3006 when it was working in North Yard! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110395 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 280 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande With a mid-day lull in action, I decided to stop by the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver. This is the forever home of Rio Grande GP30 #3006! This unit sat at Burnham for over a decade, waiting for find out what would happen to it. Fortunately, it has a great home, protected from the conditions of the outside world. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110376 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 198 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP's MNYGR (Manifest from North Yard, CO to Green River, WY) is pulling east on to the Belt Industrial Lead across Broadway, out of North Yard. The train has been put together (after doubling over between two tracks) and the North Yard Utility personnel have just detached from the train. Time to head north! Any cars destined for Salt Lake City that once would have run on the (now defunct) MNYRO are on this train instead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110375 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed C&S Jct to Arvada (MP 4.8 to MP MP 7.5) Denver, CO 234 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Amtrak now has three Phase 7 P42DCs (AMTK 174, AMTK 82, and AMTK 138). AMTK 138 is the newest repaint in the new scheme, and it along with AMTK 82 led the Zephyr westbound out of Denver. This is the first time a patched pair of Phase 7 P42DCs have led the Zephyr (or, to the best of my knowledge, any train). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110374 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed C&S Jct to Arvada (MP 4.8 to MP MP 7.5) Denver, CO 459 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr, with a pair of Phase 7 P42DCs, heads west alongside the Sheridan Blvd commuter rail station. The Zephyr has what has become standard consist. A transition sleeper, two regular sleepers, a diner, a lounge car, and two coaches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110353 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed C&S Jct to Arvada (MP 4.8 to MP MP 7.5) Denver, CO 217 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A trio of GEs, each representing different eras in technology, lead BNSF's Provo-Denver, currently stopped on Main 2 at Tennyson Street. The lead unit is an ET44C4. The second unit is an ES44C4. Finally, third out, is a C44-9W. Just after this picture was taken, the train got a light at C&S Junction and continued east to Prospect Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110352 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed C&S Jct to Arvada (MP 4.8 to MP MP 7.5) Denver, CO 175 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After catching a UP SD70ACe-T4 a few minutes earlier at Pecos Street, here is the GE counterpart, an ET44C4. This is GE's tier-4 compliant locomotive. The unit led BNSF's Provo-Denver from Provo back over to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110351 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 186 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Here is a scene that looks substantially different than it did 30 years ago. Back then, the two tracks on the left did not exist at all. They were added in the early 2000s to accommodate the huge number of coal trains that ran on the Moffat back then. Then, about 15 years ago, the bridge in the background was built to take Pecos Street up and over the tracks. Here, in 2024, a UP manifest backs away from the camera and in to North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110350 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 195 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 3032 is one of the 87 SD70ACe-T4s that UP currently has on the roster. Indeed, one of the only SD70ACe-T4s that actually exists in the United States. To say the EPA Tier-4 units are unpopular with North American railroads would be an understatement. Railroads are, instead, choosing to invest in rebuilding older power rather than buy these newer, more complex, and more expensive units. UP 3032 is working on backing the train in to North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110349 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 181 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr heads west on the North Yard siding, passing by a UP manifest that is spanning Main 3 and Main 2 through the crossover at Pecos. The manifest arrived earlier in the day from the Greeley Sub. It came across Main 2 and, now that the Zephyr is clear, will back in to North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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