Photo ID: 111330 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 136 (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 145 (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 121 (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 121 (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 107 (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 119 (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 239 (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 192 (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 218 (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. Photo ID: 111206 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 195 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 4014, a 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotive, was built by ALCO (American Locomotive Company) in 1941. After spending 20 years in service, it was retired in December 1961 and wound up at a museum in Southern California. UP reacquired 4014 from the museum in 2013 and moved it to Cheyenne in 2014. It was then rebuilt and once again runs under its own (steam) power. Here, on the final day of a two month tour that covered ten states (Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111205 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 174 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Steam pour out from underneath the 48th Avenue overpass as UP 4014 backs up on the switch lead toward Track 9. Ten railfans are on the overpass, capturing pictures as the 4-8-8-4 steam engine makes its reverse move. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111204 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 183 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 4014, UP 9625, and a half dozen passenger cars back down the North Yard switch lead toward Track 9 to pick up a string of freight cars for the final leg of the 2024 Heartland Tour, heading back to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111203 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 209 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific I cannot pretend to be a steam expert, so I do not fully understand all the ins and outs of where steam is emitted and why. But I also cannot deny just how cool the engine looks as steam is blowing out of it as it slowly rolls on one of the North Yard lead tracks just south of I-70. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111202 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 171 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Perhaps the best shot of UP 4014 I have to date, the engine has just crossed underneath I-70 as it pulls south on one of the south leads for North Yard. The train is going to back into North Yard, specifically into Track 9 to pick up a string of UP freight cars for the journey north to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111201 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 You can see a lot of railfans (or, at least, steam fans) lining the overpass on 48th Avenue as UP 4014 pulls out of the storage track at North Yard. Soon, it will back down into Track 9 and 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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