Photo ID: 112883 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 54 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak Amtrak, working with the Washington State Department of Transportation, came up with a nice looking paint scheme for this AIRO train set that will run in the Cascades. The green scheme, with the Mt Rainier stamps, looks very nice. Here, the train set is back toward BNSF's 31st Yard so it can depart south on the Joint Line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112882 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 46 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak As we see this Amtrak Cascades AIRO train set back toward BNSF's 31st Street Yard, I cannot help but wonder if this site could become more often in the future. Not the Cascades livery, but CDOT is looking to try to start train service between Denver and Granby on the Moffat. I wonder if CDOT might look at a Siemens train set like this for their trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112880 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 41 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak This Amtrak Cascades AIRO trainset is departing Union Station on the Buck lead. It is going to back through the "wash rack" track toward BNSF's 31st Street Yard, and then depart south on the Joint Line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112879 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak Near BNSF's engine house, on the Buck lead, an Amtrak special is departing Union Station. An Amtrak Cascades trainset is going to head south on the Joint Line to go to the Transportation Technology Center near Pueblo, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112878 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Sitting near the BNSF engine house was this SD75M! SD75s (both SD75Ms and SD75Is) have become exceedingly rare in recent years. BNSF has been keeping most of them in long term storage. Loved catching this one on this Friday morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112877 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 45 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Love that this "yellow bonnet" GP39-2 has been hanging out around Denver lately, and working as a yard job switcher at BNSF's 31st Street Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112876 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF The fuel tracks and BNSF ready tracks are busy as ever as crew work to refuel and prep units for their next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112746 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 35 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This southbound coal load as slowed to a stop on Main 2, still in Yard limits and not yet in CTC limits. The train has briefly stopped to wait for the California Zephyr to clear the diamond at 23rd Street ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112743 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 32 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak The morning Zephyr passes underneath Park Avenue West as it departs Union Station. The train is currently on the Buck Lead, on the approach to 23rd Street, the control point that crosses the Buck Lead with the far north end of the Joint Line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112741 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 46 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Multiple units hang out on the ready tracks at BNSF's engine house. The refueling tracks are currently all empty, but a recently arrived McCook-Denver manifest will likely soon bring in some power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112740 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 36 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A BNSF GP39-2 sits among several other units in Denver. Love seeing a classic blue and yellow painted unit (a so-called "Yellow Bonnet"), particularly when the paint has held up as well as this one has. Railfans that remember railroading in the 1980s might remember a train Santa Fe ran called the "DVLJ". It was an intermodal train that ran out of Big Lift (south of Denver on the Joint Line) to La Junta. GP39-2s were very common on that train...perhaps this geep even led that intermodal train 40 years ago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112739 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 35 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF 7393 is sitting on a stub track near the engine house. It looks like the unit may have spent some time in Houston or SoCal, as those are locations where units are often tagged. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112709 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 89 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak There was a time when the tracks at Union Station were all CTC controlled by a local dispatcher. Then, for years, the station tracks were all uncontrolled yard tracks, as the Zephyr was virtually the only train to use the station. Now, the tracks are once again under the control of CTC, and Denver's RTD (Regional Transportation District) owns and dispatches the tracks. A-Line and N-Line tracks are the two commuter line tracks to the left. B-Line and G-Line tracks are the two commuter line tracks to the right. "Heavy" trains, such as Amtrak, the Winter Park Express, and Rocky Mountaineer, use the center track to get to Track 4 and Track 5 at Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112708 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 78 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak Union Station's Passenger Lead track passes beneath the intersection of Park Avenue and Delgany Street. With all the switches and derails verified to be properly aligned, the train is making a reverse movement beneath the intersection toward Denver Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112707 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 87 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak On a mostly overcast evening, the sun breaks through for a few minutes to light up a pair of GE units sitting near the BNSF Engine House while the eastbound Zephyr backs down the Passenger Lead to Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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