Photo ID: 112206 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detector (MP 28.4) La Salle, CO 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific One of the locals that UP runs out of La Salle, the LDI07, has completed its work at Brighton. It is headed back to La Salle with four tank cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112205 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 88 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 9795 has cleared the north switch of Platteville, and the northbound it is meeting is starting to accelerate after receiving a clear (green) signal at the north end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112204 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Essentially all of the general manifest traffic that rolls between Denver, CO and points west (on Union Pacific) is in this shot! UP has a daily train that runs west from Denver to Green River, WY (the train on the left), and a counterpart that comes to Denver from Green River, WY (the train on the right). Since UP stopped running general manifest trains west of Grand Junction, CO, cars running between Denver and Salt Lake City are also on these trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112203 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 7609 and two additional units leads a very long MNYGR on the main at Platteville. The 9600-foot train is well-blocked, with stretches of like cars that are probably headed to the same customer, or at least the same city. The train is slow rolling as it just passed an Approach (yellow) signal. It is meeting a southbound that has not yet cleared the north switch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112202 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fort Lupton (MP 25.8) La Salle, CO 80 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 7609 crosses County Road 14½ on the way north on the Greeley Sub. This train is UP's daily North Yard to Green River, WY manifest, and is quite massive today. The train was broken across three tracks in North Yard due to its length. The train has 166 cars, totaling 9,618 feet in length! Pretty impressive, particularly when considering there are only three units! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112201 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 95 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A couple years ago, UP's Greeley Sub was the busiest single track mainline in the country! I am not sure if it still holds that title today in 2025. Regardless, it is still a very busy mainline. Not only due to through trains, but there are dozens of customers that are active along the line, taking and making shipments by rail. UP 9795 is taking the siding here at Platteville as two northbounds, one through and one local, are both out of Brighton. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112200 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific At Platteville, the MGRNY takes the siding for a meet with two northbounds. The first will be this trains counterpart, the MNYGR which departed from North Yard in Denver about 90 minutes earlier. UP 9795's train is 5500 feet long, which will easily fit in the siding. However, the train will hang out the north end of the siding for a little while so it can avoid blocking County Road 32, one of the main roads in town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112199 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W045 (South La Salle) La Salle, CO 78 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific No stops in La Salle on this Sunday for UP's Green River, WY to North Yard manifest. La Salle has a yard, and is the base of operations for several locals that serve customers along the Greeley Sub. Some manifests will stop here to pick up or drop off cars, but such is not the case for UP 9795 today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112198 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W045 (South La Salle) La Salle, CO 73 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific As UP 9795 heads south out of La Salle, take note of the siding as it bows out and away from the mainline before converging with the main at the switch. This is very common with many sidings and is done to provide a better angle for the siding as it joins the main at the switch. This can allow trains to proceed through the switch at a slightly higher speed than they would otherwise be allowed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112197 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Evans (MP 48.3) La Salle, CO 81 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Just south of the bridge that crosses the South Platte River, UP 9795 crosses over Latham Ditch. This is an irrigation ditch that actually branches off from the South Platte just a few thousand feet west of this picture. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112196 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Evans (MP 48.3) La Salle, CO 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP's Green River, WY to North Yard manifest (MGRNY) crosses over a very low South Platte River just north of La Salle. Hopefully, with temperatures increasing, the spring runoff will start soon and the river will get filled up a bit more. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111217 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Evans (MP 48.3) La Salle, CO 149 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific After getting a shot of the Big Boy steam train at Sand Creek Junction, I skipped ahead all the way to just north of La Salle. The Big Boy always attracts quite a crowd and I did not want to get stuck in traffic on US-85! Here, the train is crossing over the South Platte River amidst some very nice fall colors on a pleasant Wednesday afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110393 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W045 (South La Salle) La Salle, CO 238 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 8205 and train have a clear (green) signal on the main at the south switch of La Salle. You may note that there is a derail set on the siding here. That is due to a local that is currently in the siding and switching out cars at the yard in La Salle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109608 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed La Salle (8,800ft) La Salle, CO 251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A southbound local led by an SD70M is being overtaken by a southbound manifest led by an C44AC-CTE at La Salle. The side-by-side of the EMD and GE units makes for a pretty good comparison. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109607 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed La Salle (8,800ft) La Salle, CO 284 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP has a small yard in La Salle, CO. Several locals originate and terminate here in La Salle, UP 4528 being one such local. The train is stopped on the siding as a southbound manifest approaches alongside the train from the north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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