Photo ID: 111393 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 88 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific One of UP's six heritage units, the Western Pacific unit (UP 1983) was hanging out in North Yard this afternoon. The unit cannot be run on a train as its 92-day FRA inspection is due. The unit will be transported (dead-in-consist) to North Platte so its 92-day inspection can be completed again. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111335 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP's Green River, WY to North Yard manifest has completed its journey on the Greeley Sub and is pulling into Track 6 in North Yard off the Belt Line. The train is too long to entirely fit on Track 6, so it will split in half, the back half being shoved into Track 5. The conductor is currently riding on the front platform, keeping a close eye on switches to ensure they are properly aligned. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111334 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 159 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific DRGW 1357 sits waiting for its next assignment, most likely as power on a local. In the distance, an SD40N and a GP38N also wait for their next assignment, but as remote control yard power for switching in North Yard. UP 1357 was originally DRGW 3102. Indeed, you can clearly see where its MARS light was once located, as well as the class lights on the nose. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111333 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A pair of GP40-2s sit near the yard office in North Yard, awaiting their next assignment. Neither of these geeps started life as Union Pacific units. The further unit, UP 1506 was SP 7128 when UP merged with Espee. However, the units history dates further back. It was originally delivered to the Baltimore and Ohio in September 1971 as B&O 4011! UP 1357, on the other hand, was delivered to Rio Grande in April 1972 as DRGW 3102. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111332 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 93 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A GP38-2 (now a GP38N) and an SD40-2 (now an SD40N) sit idly in North Yard. These units are the currently power used for switching cars in the yard. At the moment, no cars need to be switched! Without knowing anything about the numbering scheme for UP's roster or specific history of units, I can guarantee that this GP38-2 is either of Missouri Pacific or MKT heritage. How? Note that it lacks dynamic brakes. Missouri Pacific and MKT, both being plains railroads, ordered some units without any dynamic brakes. In this case, this was originally MP 2188, delivered to Missouri Pacific in February 1980, just shy of three years before UP would take over MP. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111331 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 82 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While the lighting is not fantastic for this shot, I could not resist getting a shot of this UP GP60. My favorite two four axle units are the GP30 and the GP60, so anytime I come across either, I have to try for a shot. This guy was built in September 1989 and was delivered to Espee as a Cotton Belt unit! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111330 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A string of units sits on the ready track in North Yard. The name "ready track" comes exactly where you might imagine. These units have been serviced and are ready for their next assignment, whatever that might be. It appears the crew that moved the units accidentally left the headlights on on UP 7849! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111305 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 106 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Bird on a wire? The birds are all lined up to watch the rail action as a remote control UP yard job is switching cars out the south end of the yard, underneath the 48th Avenue overpass. The units are being controlled by a UP employee that is also throwing switches back in the yard. This remote control zone is called "Zone 1" here at North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111303 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific It has been said that the only thing that is consistent is change. Forty years ago, this shot of the engine tracks at North Yard would have been filled with black and gold Rio Grande power. Thirty years ago, it would have been largely filled with scarlet and gray Espee power. Now, as it has been for the last few decades, it is a sea of UP yellow. At some point in the future, it will no doubt change again. But to what? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111302 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 93 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An SD40-2 (now SD40N) seems to be having a pretty substantial mechanical issue, and is spewing large amounts of exhaust all over the engine tracks in North Yard. Perhaps it has a blown turbocharger? Whatever the issue, the unit will be shut off and ultimately sent to North Platte, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111301 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 81 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A GP38-2 sits near the engine shop, which now has very limited abilities to do work on engines. The vast majority of maintenance requires engines be sent to the shops in North Platte, NE. Later in the day, this geep had been moved, so I am not sure if whatever issue(s) it may have had were resolved, or if it would be headed to Nebraska. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111300 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific It appears that this SD40-2 (now designated as an SD40N) wishes it had been born as a steam engine a few generations earlier, based on the exhaust it is pumping out! Clearly, there is some sort of a mechanical issue with the unit, and a few minutes later, the unit was shut down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111212 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 165 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific In order to face north for the trip to Cheyenne, UP 4014 and train are backout out of North Yard, across the diamond at Utah Junction, and on to the Belt Line. The train will back all the way across the Belt Line to UP Junction, then down to 36th Street in order to depart north on the Greeley Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111211 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 166 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An interesting view looking straight down on UP 4014 as it slowly backs up on Track 9 in North Yard. Surrounded by cars destined for customers, the steam train is going to pick up a string of UP-owned freight cars at the north end of Track 9 for the trip north to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111207 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 164 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Not every day that you see the nose of a spartan cab EMD next to the nose of steam locomotive. For that matter, it certainly is not every day that you'll find a steam locomotive in the middle of North Yard in Denver! UP 4014 is backing down Yard Track 9 to pick up a string of freight cars for the trip to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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