Photo ID: 110314 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 382 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak Consider the status of many of the passengers onboard this special Amtrak move from Denver to Longmont, including Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Longmont police and BNSF police were present in Longmont to protect the people and chase away railfans that tried to make a move onto railroad property to get some pictures. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110313 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 256 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak The equipment for Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train, temporarily borrowed for a special move to Longmont, sits across Emery Street in Longmont on a bland, overcast afternoon. The train ran 1x1 north and, of course, will do so for the trip south as well. Several people who took the train north, including Colorado Governor Jared Polis, will actually take the purple bus (parking on the street above AMTK 174) back to Denver rather than returning on the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110312 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 186 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak A pair of BNSF geeps and a pair of BNSF SD70MACs sit near the Longmont depot in the distance as Amtrak's colorful AMTK 174 sits on what is now the tail end of a soon-to-depart southbound special that will run from Longmont back to Union Station in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110311 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 255 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak Long time Amtrak conductor, "Conductor Brad", leans out the cab of AMTK 174 in Longmont to thank some fans for their interest in the special move from Denver to Longmont. Momentarily, Brad will disappear back into the cab to help conduct an air test for the return trip to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110310 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 198 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak I must admit, Amtrak's new Phase 7 paint scheme is my personal favorite scheme since the Phase 3 scheme that reigned through the 1980s and much of the 1990s. All but 10 of the new ALC-42 Chargers will sport this new scheme. AMTK 174 is, as of the date of this picture, the only P42DC to receive the scheme. No idea if Amtrak plans to (eventually) repaint the entire P42 fleet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110309 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 232 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak The configuration of BNSF's Front Range Sub is rather interesting in Longmont. The main track actually takes the diverging route at a switch. That switch is seen here, with AMTK 174 taking the diverging route, sitting (stopped) on the main track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110308 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 307 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Amtrak Amtrak's special Front Range train has arrived at its northern destination in Longmont. The city of Longmont shut down the intersection and grade crossing at Emery Street. The train came to a stop right across the street and the passengers on board, including Colorado Governor Jared Polis, de-boarded and went to a pub for a quick conversation. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108709 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 702 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF An ES44C4 leads a wind blade train south down the middle of Atwood Street in Longmont. Cars line either side of the tracks as Atwood Street is a one way on either side of the rails here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108708 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 716 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF One of the more interesting places to check out trains along the Front Range, in my opinion, is in Longmont on Atwood Street. BNSF's Front Range Sub runs right down the middle of the street! This is a residential street that is lined with houses and a park. Several times a day, the silence in the neighborhood is shattered by the sound of a train, such as this one, running down the middle of the street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106012 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Longmont Longmont, CO 1791 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) High Iron Travels Just south of Vermillion Road on the north edge of Longmont, a special passenger excursion rolls north in front of Longs Peak. The train largely consists of passenger cars painted to resemble the scheme used by the Great Northern Railroad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106011 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Longmont Longmont, CO 1806 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) High Iron Travels Just north of Longmont finds a pair of Amtrak P42s on the point of the Front Range Explorer excursion train. 14,259-foot Longs Peak, one of the 53 "14ers" in Colorado, stands tall in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105644 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 1845 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Introducing the ET44C4. If you are looking at this picture in 2025, then this is most likely a common site. However, here in 2015, this was the first production version of this model I saw in person. BNSF took delivery of roughly 100 units in 2015. The unit is Tier 4 compliant and, like the ES44C4, it is an A1A-A1A unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105643 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 1879 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF What would think of this as the view from the end of your driveway!? Longmont residents that live on Atwood Street get exactly that. A northbound manifest proceeds down the median, offering a fair amount of horn when approaching each cross street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105642 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 1804 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Clear of the main track, this BNSF local is backing toward the yard at Longmont. Once there, the crew will break the train across two tracks and tie down for the night. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105641 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 1845 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Running from Denver to Cheyenne (or vice versa) on the Front Range Sub takes time. In addition to the lack of signals, there are multiple stretches of track that have reduced speeds. Atwood Street in Longmont is one of those. The track run down the median of the street, which one direction running on either side. Here, a local heads south down said median. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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