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Sunday, January 22, 2023
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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UP's North Yard is fairly empty on this Sunday morning, with only a handful of units hanging around, most of those being units for yard jobs, transfers, or locals. Granted there are only four destinations for road freights that North Yard has to contend with these days: Pueblo to the south, North Platte, NE to the east, and Grand Junction to the west, and Green River, WY to the west.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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549 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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A nice, elevated look at UP 1979 and the viewing area set up by UP for its employees at North Yard. Behind the unit, we find only a handful of units around the fueling and sanding racks. The yard itself looks to be a bit on the empty side. However, it is encouraging to see an empty coal train sitting on yard track 1!
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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652 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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UP set ups. pretty good viewing area for the "We Are ONE" unit, UP 1979 here at North Yard in Denver. A very large tent with chairs was set up, offering some shade. Employees are welcome to come over and check out the unit when they have a break or at the start or end of their shift. Or even if they are off duty and just want to make the haul down to the yard to check it out.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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The nose of UP 1979 is definitely rather creative! Behind UP's shield and wings is an orange and yellow heart, with the pink and green bands wrapping around the base from the sides of the nose. Overall, a pretty creative design to be sure! The unit is on display here for UP employees in Denver, not too far from the fuel and sand racks.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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677 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Multiple armor yellow units provide the backdrop at North Yard for UP 1979. UP painted this SD70M in a special scheme referred to as the "We Are ONE" scheme. The scheme includes the nine Employee Resource Groups that Union Pacific offers for its employees. The first such group, the Black Employee Network (or BEN) was created in 1979, indicating the reason for the number of the unit.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Along the top of the long hood of UP's "We Are ONE" unit, you can find the nine Employee Resource Groups that UP offers for its employees:
AERO - Asian Employee Resource Organization
BEN - Black Employee Network
BRIDGES - LGBT Employee Network
CONAH - Council of Native American Heritage
EASE - Educate. Advance. Support. Encourage.
LEAD - Women's Advancement: Lead. Education. Achieve. Develop.
LEN - Latino Employee Network
TIES - Connecting Employees. Uniting Communities. Emerging Professionals
VETS - Veterans and Employees Continuing to Serve
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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609 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Say hello to the latest specially painted Union Pacific unit. UP 1979 is an SD70M painted in the "We Are ONE" scheme. UP created the unit as a unifying unit amongst UP employees. It highlights all of the Employee Resource Groups UP has. The first such group was the Black Employees Network (called "BEN"). That group was created in 1979, hence the number choice for the unit.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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The area around has changed a lot over the decades, but by-and-large North Yard has remained the same for those same decades. This, along with Roper in Salt Lake, was Rio Grande’s main classification yard. Under SP, the yard was packed full still as many trains ran on the Moffat from the Pacific Northwest to Texas. Under UP, however...particularly in the last few years...traffic has dropped off quite a bit.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
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UP 1996, one of UP’s six heritage units, sits on one of the ready tracks in North Yard on a June afternoon. It is, perhaps, somewhat ironic that exactly 14 years ago that UP 1989, the Rio Grande Heritage Unit, sat a few hundred yards from this location under a tarp, waiting to be unveiled! UP 1996 is, of course, Southern Pacific’s heritage unit.
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