Photo ID: 113389 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 35 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX Not a pair of units I ever expected to see individually in 2025, let alone in a lash-up together! A former Santa Fe SD45-2B and a former Amtrak F40PH are both being moved from California to Iowa. Neither is currently operational, and are being moved "DIC" (Dead-In-Consist). They will be transferred from BNSF to UP here in Denver to continue on to Iowa. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113388 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 31 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BUGX Amtrak's Phase 4 paint scheme has always been my personal least favorite of all of Amtrak's schemes. However, finding it on this retired F40PH is not something I am complaining about! The unit is on its way to Middletown, IA from Anaheim, CA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113387 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 41 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX A look at the engineer's side...such as it is, considering there is no cab...of this SD45-2B. It was pretty fantastic seeing a unit wearing Santa Fe blue and yellow in 2025. Particularly a unit as unique as this one! These B-units were not built by EMD, but were modifications made by Santa Fe. Santa Fe removed the cabs and created the B-units. A total of eight such B-units were created from SD45-2s. One thing worth noting is that some people confuse a B-unit with a slug. A slug has no prime mover, but still has traction motors with power for the motors supplied by other units in its consist. A B-unit still has its prime mover, but simply has no cab and therefore cannot be controlled unless in an MU-consist with other units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113386 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak This is quite an incredible catch that I lucked into the day before Thanksgiving. This was the very last F40PH (actually, an F40PHR) delivered to Amtrak by EMD. The units were numbered 200 to 409, and were the backbone of the long distance trains on Amtrak through the 1980s and most of the 1990s. As you can see, AMTK 409 is sporting Amtrak's Phase 4 paint scheme. After being retired by Amtrak in 2001, the unit spent years in storage in Bear, DE before being sold to BUGX in private ownership and moved to Anaheim, CA. Here, it is on its way to Middletown, IA, possibly for cosmetic restoration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113385 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 29 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A little GP60 action hanging around in Denver. This particular unit was originally delivered to Santa Fe in the Warbonnet scheme. In the early 1990s, Santa Fe often ran high priority intermodal trains with an A-B-B-A GP60 set. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113384 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 52 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX In the 1970s and 1980s, several railroads had a bit of a fad with B-units. Meaning units without a cab. The units still had a prime mover and traction motors, but could only be controlled when MU'd to other units. Such units are quite rare today, but it just so happened that an SD45-2B was coming through town at BNSF's Engine House today. SPTX 5703 has a bit of a storied history. It was actually originally delivered as a standard SD45-2 (with a cab). In fact, this was the unit that Santa Fe painted in red, white, and blue to celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976. However, in October 1987, Santa Fe converted three SD45-2s into B-units, removing their cabs. ATSF 5703 was one such unit. Note that the dynamic brakes were moved forward to the area where the cab had once been located to help improve cooling. The unit is now owned by a private individual named Noah McCann, and it is reportedly headed to Middletown, IA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113055 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 238 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF 2697 is a former GP35, that has been rebuilt as a GP39-3. You can clearly see where the smaller center radiator fan on the long hood was once located. I suspect it was removed to reduce maintenance costs, as the fan was a different size. I find it interesting that UP got rid of all of their old GP30s and GP35s, while BNSF opted to keep much of the power, simply rebuilding it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113053 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 262 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF I thought it pretty fantastic that you can clearly see five classic "Dash-2" EMD units in this shot! Four SD40-2s and a GP40M (originally a GP40-2) all sit on the north side of the BNSF engine house this Sunday afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113052 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 241 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Now here is a nice, classic lash-up of a quartet of "40s". Two Cascade Green SD40-2s, a New Image GP40M (originally a GP40-2), and a New Image SD40-2. Crazy to think that this would have been a fairly typical consist for a road train 30-40 years ago. Yet, today, it is all just power for switching the yard and running locals. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113051 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 249 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF It is not too common that in 2025 you can find a pair of Cascade Green SD40-2s lashed up together! Granted, the paint is pretty seriously faded, but it still nice to see. BNSF 1958 was once numbered BN 6351; you can see the old number starting to show through the pain at the tail end of the long hood. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112883 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 25, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 429 (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 371 (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 376 (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 350 (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 399 (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.

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