Photo ID: 103578 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 140 Hillrose, CO 2364 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The last shot of the day and, as it turns out, probably my favorite too! After meeting two eastbound coal empties at Hillrose, this unit grain train is heading west toward Brush and then Denver. Ahh, the end of Daylight Savings Time, when the sun is gone by 5:00pm! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103577 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 140 Hillrose, CO 1659 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF In the last rays of the setting sun, an eastbound coal empty turns off the main track and into the siding at Hillrose. A westbound grain train sits on the main track. When the coal train clears, the grain train will continue. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103576 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 140 Hillrose, CO 2043 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF This shot caught my eye as I was watching this westbound coal empty heading into the siding at Hillrose. With the change off Daylight Savings Time the night before, the sun does set much earlier, but you can get some fantastic light right before sunset! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103575 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 1723 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF After meeting a westbound grain train at Hillrose, this coal empty heads toward Union, CO where it will receive a track warrant and continue on Union Pacific track to Sterling. There, it will turn north on the BNSF Angora Sub into Nebraska toward the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103574 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 2252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF There is an explosion of light from behind the clouds along the western horizon as the sun gets closer to setting. In the foreground, a coal empty proceeds east out of the siding at Hillrose. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103573 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 1728 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Less than twenty minutes before sunset, the sun has come out from behind the clouds and an eastbound coal empty throttles up to leave the siding of North Hillrose to continue on to Sterling. The grain train it just met sits on the main, a pair of C44-9Ws are DPU'd on the end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103572 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 2060 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF At the east switch of Hillrose, a westbound unit grain train proceeds on a yellow signal. The "earth worm" (as these unit grain trains are often referred to) is will stop on the main at Hillrose to meet two eastbounds. One eastbound is a coal empty on the siding and the second is an empty just south of the siding, holding the main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102080 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 17, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Hillrose, CO 1733 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Julesburg (UP) BNSF UP once ran trains between Julesburg, NE and La Salle, CO along the Julesburg Sub. At Union, BNSF's Brush Sub connected with the Julesburg Sub and BNSF coal train had trackage rights on the Julesburg Sub for 25 miles to Sterling. In 1993, UP abandoned the Julesburg Sub from Union to Kersey (near La Salle) and ripped the track out. Now, at Union, operations switch from CTC to TWC/ABS and ownership changes from BNSF to UP. However, BNSF dispatches the line between Union and Sterling as they have the only trains that run on the tracks! Here, a BNSF coal load enters CTC and moves from UP tracks on the Julesburg Sub to BNSF tracks on the Brush Sub at Union. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102079 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 17, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Hillrose, CO 1822 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Julesburg (UP) BNSF A few miles north of Hillrose, CO is the rail location of Union. This is where the BNSF Brush Sub connected with the UP Julesburg Sub. In 1993, UP abandoned and ripped up the Julesburg Sub between Union and Kersey (near La Salle). In this shot, I would have been standing in the middle of the UP tracks. Now, the switch is gone and the line just curves to the BNSF Brush Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.