Photo ID: 113752 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 76 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific So close and yet so far away! UP 1996 and three other units lead Union Pacific's MNYGR. The train is currently picking up its DPU back in north yard. A utility crew is getting its air hose, etc hooked up. If the train were three or four cars shorter, Washington Street would have been cleared. Alas, traffic is going to have to wait a bit longer. While most motorists are probably not railfans, perhaps a few note the uniquely painted Espee heritage unit leading the train! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113751 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The Belt Industrial Lead, which is only four miles long, is often time a bit of a bottleneck in the Denver area. It connects North Yard to 36th Street Yard, the Limon Sub, and the Greeley Sub. The line also has numerous switches and industries that are regularly switched by a yard job. Since it is a single track main, one train can stop several others. At the moment, this MNYGR is slowing to a stop to pick up its DPU, way back in North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113750 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 1996 is technically moving away from the camera, making a reverse move back in to North Yard on the Belt Industrial Lead. The train needs to pick up its DPU before it officially departs and heads for the Greeley Subdivision. The grade crossing is Washington Street, and the overpass in the distance is I-25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113749 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 1996 and train have come to a stop on the Belt Industrial Lead. A North Yard utility crew is throwing a few switches behind the train, so it make a reverse move and pick up its DPU. At the moment, the train is crossing Broadway and Washington Street, likely aggravating a lot of motorists. Momentarily, the train will make a reverse move to pick up the DPU. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113748 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 68 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific In one of the more industrial parts of Denver, UP 1996 and the MNYGR pass by a billboard advertising Southwest Airlines. The train is on the 4-mile-long Belt Industrial Lead, which connects North Yard with the Greeley Subdivision (and the Limon Subdivision and 36th Street Yard). The train is just about the pass underneath I-25, the busiest highway in the state of Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113747 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 73 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 1996 leads the MNYGR (Manifest, North Yard to Green River) across Broadway as it pulls through CP DS900. The train has picked up the rest of its train from Track 7, and needs to pick up its DPU next. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113743 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 54 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific A very long UP switch job, which has picked up some cars from the 36th Street Yard, is headed west across the 4-mile-long single track mainline known as the Belt Industrial Lead. Four units pull the train across Washington Street across Copeland Lake. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112833 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 381 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP's only steam train excursion for 2025 backs up on the Belt Industrial Lead alongside Copeland Lake, a small retaining pond on the north side of the Belt Industrial lead, just east of I-25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112571 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 290 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The morning Rocky Mountaineer makes its way across the South Platte River on UP's Belt Industrial Lead. The Belt line connects UP's Greeley Sub (and 36th Street Yard) with the Moffat Sub (and North Yard). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110592 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 272 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific Wanted to grab a quick roster shot of UP 6294 specifically because, under that yellow paint scheme, you'd find scarlet and gray. Indeed, the AC4400CW started life as SP 241. This summer, the unit celebrates its 29th birthday, as it was originally delivered in June of 1995. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110591 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 286 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 7855 is slowing toward a stop on the Belt Industrial Lead. They do not have a route in to the yard yet, so the engineer will bring the train to a stop just east of Washington Street so as not to block any grade crossing while waiting to get in to North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110590 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 286 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific A southbound UP manifest is slowly climbing the grade west on the Belt Industrial Lead alongside some local industry tracks. In the background, the newest power stations (that burn natural gas) at Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110589 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 290 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The Belt Industrial Lead, which connects North Yard to 36th Street Yard and the Greeley Sub, also has quite a few connections to local industries along the way. You can see two tracks that curve north toward industries in the area. Meanwhile, UP's MGRNY (Manifest, Green River, WY to North Yard, CO) approaches on the main train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.