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: 112201 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 94 (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: 110023 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 249 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) BNSF, Union Pacific Baretable trains...which are trains that have empty well cars used for hauling (intermodal) containers...are some of the lowest priority trains on any railroad. They do not generate any revenue as the railroad is just relocating the empty cars. A single power-shared BNSF C44-9W is the power on this southbound, getting ready to leave the siding at Platteville. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110022 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 224 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) BNSF, Union Pacific A UP conductor from on the southbound baretable gives a roll by to the northbound North Yard, CO to Green River, WY. Many of the cars on the northbound manifest are likely headed for Salt Lake City, and once would have run over the Moffat on the MNYRO. But it is has been several years since the MNYRO ran. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109609 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The sun is getting low in the western sky as a southbound UP manifest overtakes a southbound military train sitting in the siding. The manifest, UP's MGRNY originated in Green River, WY and is headed for North Yard. The military train is going to have to run south through North Yard as well, so I am not sure why the military train is being run around. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109605 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 279 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific After meeting a northbound unit auto train, whose last car is just barely visible in the distance, UP 7219 has set its headlight to dim as they have been informed by the dispatcher that they will be sitting here in Platteville for next few hours. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109604 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 322 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific While UP 7219 sits at the south end of Platteville, looking at a red signal, a farmer in a tractor distributes some lime on his field in preparation for planting next season. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109603 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 240 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The crew on UP 6787 (the sole unit on a northbound empty auto train) waits for a southbound military train to clear the north switch so they can continue north toward Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109602 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 255 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP AC4400CWs meet each other at Platteville. UP 6787 is leading a northbound (empty) unit auto rack train on the main and UP 7219 is leading a southbound loaded military rain in to the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109600 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 8, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 255 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Slowly rolling north on the main at Platteville, a unit auto rack train with only a single AC4400CW for power approaches a red signal at the north end. The train is meeting a southbound military train that will be holding the siding in Platteville for the next few hours. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109531 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 241 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific Visitors far from home lead a coal empty north on the UP Greeley Sub at Platteville, about 35 miles north of Denver. Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merged earlier this year, creating CPKC (Canadian Pacific Kansas City), so it is not too surprising that the leased power has a unit from each road represented. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109529 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 229 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A southbound manifest sits in the siding at Platteville, waiting for a northbound. An even split of three GEs and three EMDs are on the point of the train. However, the last two SD70Ms are not loading. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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