Photo ID: 106021 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 1756 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) High Iron Travels This would have been one heck of a ride! Sitting in this dome car, passengers are able to enjoy views not only off to the side, but ahead of and behind the Front Range Explorer special. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106020 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 1693 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) High Iron Travels A Pullman-built passenger car rolls north in a Great North Railroad-inspired paint scheme. Passengers on the specially-chartered train just got a good view of the campus of the Colorado State University a few minutes prior. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106019 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 1865 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) High Iron Travels In Fort Collins, BNSF's Front Range Sub runs right down the middle of Mason Street. Unit a few years ago, the tracks were right in the middle of the asphalt, allowing trains to change lines across the track! A project to put the trains within a median took place, however, and now the tracks and Mason Street are separated. Here, the Front Range Explorer runs down Mason Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104877 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1531 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF This southbound train with very unique power is tied down in the siding at North Yard in Fort Collins (right at milepost 76)! A Great Western crew brought the train to this point (it was interchanged from the Great Western). A BNSF crews has been called out of Cheyenne and was enroute at the time of this picture. Upon arrival, the crew would untie the train and take it to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104876 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1544 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian National Canadian National has a fair number of "cowl" units, meaning the walkways along the sides of the unit are inside the car body rather than outside. Internally this unit is simply a GE C40-8. Since it has the cowl body, it is designated as a C40-8M. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104875 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1492 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Notice anything special about this Warbonnet? How about the fact that there isn't a "BNSF" patch visible anywhere on the engineer's side! Not sure why there isn't one, but I'm not complaining about a Warbonnet that looks to be "pure Santa Fe" in 2014, 19 years after the creation of BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104874 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1479 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF You want to talk about and interesting power combination on an interesting train! A Warbonnet matched up with a Canadian Nations C40-8M (a cowl unit), sitting together on a "blade train" (windmill blades) in the siding at North Yard. A Great Western crew just brought this train from the Vestas plant in Windsor, CO and tied it down here on the siding at North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104202 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 2036 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF You can really appreciate the size of these wind mill blades when they roll past you on a train. Each blade is roughly 100 feet long. These blades were constructed at the Vestas plant in Fort Lupton, CO and are headed for a wind farm in Texas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104201 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 2512 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Other than the unit blade train rolling down the middle of the street, life on Mason Street is pretty normal, right down to the CSU student riding his bike northbound. The train is limited to 10 MPH for safety on Mason Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104200 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mason Street Fort Collins, CO 2468 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This picture could be on Sesame Street under the headline "one of things does not belong"! The Front Range Sub runs right down the middle of Mason Street in Fort Collins. When trains aren't present, cars can change lanes across the tracks. A southbound "blade train" is approaching, changing the tops lights to flashing yellow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104199 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 24, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South North Yard Fort Collins, CO 2141 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Does this even qualify as a train? A great looking Warbonnet leads a box car and a ballast washer through Fort Collins toward the south siding switch of North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103500 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 30 Fort Collins, CO 1692 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Fort Collins (UP) Union Pacific While the SD40-2 defines the best unit ever built by any locomotive manufacturer - it was in EMD's catalog from 1972 until 1989 - even they are starting to become harder to find. Fortunately, UP recently approved a program to rebuild 500 SD40-2s, giving them an extended life. Here, UP 3211 serves on the Fort Collins local. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103499 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 30 Fort Collins, CO 2143 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Fort Collins (UP) Union Pacific On a crystal clear June afternoon, UP's Fort Collins local sits on the Fort Collins Sub along Riverside Avenue. The train has completed its switching and is waiting to receive a warrant from the dispatcher to make the 30 mile journey back to La Salle, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102503 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 76 Fort Collins, CO 2033 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Great Western The Longmont Switch approaches the yard office at North Yard in Fort Collins.A GP40-2L of Canadian National descent rests near the yard office as well. Soon, a fresh GWR crew will hop on and continue switching. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102502 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 76 Fort Collins, CO 2019 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Any guesses where this shot was taken!? The Longmont Switch, short one unit, has arrived at North Yard in Fort Collins with a string of cars. These cars will be dropped off here for interchange with the Great Western. Typically, the Longmont Switch would have two units, but the second unit (a GP60M) was not cooperating and was left in Longmont. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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