Photo ID: 101851 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 24, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 8.5 Westminster, CO 2158 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Near the Westminster Mall on the Front Range Subdivision, the Valmont coal train stalled out! After an hour of waiting, two units from the HPASSAG - which tied down in Broomfield - showed up and tied onto the front of the train. After another hour of working, the train was finally ready to pull. Five units on the point of the Valmont coal train on the Front Range Sub...not something you see very often! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101850 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 24, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 10 Westminster, CO 1777 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Power from the HPASSAG heads south - light - at Olde Wadsworth Blvd. The power is headed toward MP 8.5 to save the Valmont coal load. The Valmont train lost a unit and stalled out on Westminster Hill, blocking 80th Avenue. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101849 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 24, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 1980 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Valmont coal load stalled out on Westminster Hill. To lend a helping hand, the power from the HPASSAG (Pasco, WA to Saginaw, TX) cut away from its train and is heading south here around Church Ranch Lake. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101842 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 11.5 Westminster, CO 1740 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF With instructions to clear the main track on the siding at Broomfield, this QDENTAC is only moving along at 10 MPH. The switch at the sound end of Broomfield must be aligned for the siding, so the conductor will have to get out. The DENTAC usually consists entirely of COFC (Containers on Flat Car), but on this day, a few cars carrying concrete ties were found on the front of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101828 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 9 Westminster, CO 1888 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This Valmont coal empty has a colorful consist on the point as the train makes its way through Westminster heading toward Denver. The train is passing underneath 92nd Avenue in the distance and is on the approach to Pierce Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101794 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 11 Westminster, CO 2479 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Clipping through the snow, BNSF's QTACDEN (Tacoma, WA to Denver, CO) train has a warrant all the way into the yard. The "TAC-DEN" is typically composed of auto racks and double stacks. On this day, all the auto racks were on the point and the double stacks are on the rear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101620 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 8, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 1664 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A quick "grab" shot of a snoot-nose BNSF SD40-2. The unit behind the Dash 2 is EMDX 9099. This was the last of 100 SD60s leased to BNSF through Oakway Leasing. A beautiful fall morning in Colorado near Church Ranch Road and US-36. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101619 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 8, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 1750 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF With the mountains in the distance, a northbound BNSF manifest passes Church Ranch Lake led by three Warbonnets. Two of the three were originally lettered for BNSF, the third was originally lettered for Santa Fe (which has since, of course, been patched). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101618 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 8, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 2049 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Thanks to a friend, I got a good heads up that BNSF's HDENLAU was being led by three Warbonnets! Up front was an SD75I followed by a C40-8W and a C44-9W. I caught the train coming around Church Ranch Lake, about to pass underneath US-36. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101276 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 7, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Westminster, CO 2164 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A sign of the conditions of the day, snow blows off the ballast and the cars as this northbound HDENLAU-07 moves quickly north near Lower Church Lake. The train was moving at 48 MPH on the approach to Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101214 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 7 Westminster, CO 1721 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF That unit on the point kind of looks like a CEFX SD90MAC leaser, but in fact it is one of the dirtiest Warbonnet's I have ever seen. BNSF 8230, an SD75M, leads the northbound HDENLAU-24 through Westminster near 80th Avenue on its journey northward. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101075 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 24, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 10 Westminster, CO 1929 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) EMD Leasing A very long string of military vehicles ride on the backs of flat cars on their way north. EMD 9082 and BNSF 7031 lead the train, elephant style, north through Westminster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101048 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 28, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Westminster, CO 1676 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF It can be very difficult to shoot northbound on the Front Range Sub, particularly between the months of September and March. Regardless, here FURX 7223 (ex-BNSF) leads the HDENLAU north at MP 12. Note the third unit, a Montana Rail Link F45XR #392! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100936 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 9, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Westminster, CO 2023 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This was the location where, on August 2, 1985, two Burlington Northern freights collided head on. Extra 6311 west (north) and Extra 6575 east (south) struck each other directly underneath the US-36 overpass shown in this image. The crewman on Extra 6311 read the incorrect train orders and the train departed Clear Creek before Extra 6575 had arrived. The resulting explosion melted the bridge! Today, the QDENTAC-09 is stopped, waiting for the MLAUDEN to arrive at Broomfield for a meet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100935 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 9, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Westminster, CO 1888 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This train is slowly crawling past this lake located near US-36. I tried to cut as much of the development out of the shot as possible. This location is not nearly as rural as it was twenty years ago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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