Photo ID: 102506 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 15 (Burns Junction) Broomfield, CO 1976 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF With a track warrant all the way from south siding switch of Broomfield to MP 72 in Fort Collins, the Denver-Laurel freight heads west into the setting sun at Burns Junction. The caboose (now referred to as a "shoving platform") sits on the Lafayette Industrial Lead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102414 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 18, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 15 (Burns Junction) Broomfield, CO 1994 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian National A rare treat on this Denver to Laurel, MT freight as a Canadian National cowl SD60F joins the lead power. Internally, the unit is just an EMD SD60. However, there are no external walkways. You can walk alongside the prime mover inside the shell of the unit to get to the next unit. Canadian National has 86 such units on their roster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102411 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 18, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 15 (Burns Junction) Broomfield, CO 1807 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF At Burns Junction (the north end of the Broomfield Siding), sitting on the Lafayette Industrial Lead, was a B40-8 wearing a very nice Heritage I paint scheme. I'm not sure why the unit was there as power for the Buck Local typically comes from Longmont. In the distance, you can see the HPASSAG siting on the mainline waiting for a northbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102050 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1674 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Longmont Switch, after carrying out the duties normally handled by the Buck Local, just completed a rare daylight move up to Lafayette. The Longmont Switch has dropped off its cars and is now returning as light power north back toward Boulder. There, it will switch a recycling plant before returning north to Longmont. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102049 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1608 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This is not an uncommon view to find here on my website...with one notable exception! Typically there isn't a train actually on the Lafayette Industrial Lead. Burns Junction is the location where the C&S main and the CB&Q main diverged and took their own routes to Longmont. Today, the old CB&Q main on the right only runs as far as Lafayette and only serves a few industries along the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102033 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1887 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This is a scene that will be changing a lot in the next five years! Those buildings in the distance originally housed a company called StorageTek, although as of the time of this photo they were being leased to Sun Microsystems through the end of 2008. ConocoPhillips has purchased the "campus" and will tear down the existing buildings (beginning in 2009) in favor a brand new buildings as part of a new 432-acre training facility. For now, however, this HPASSAG is making its way south on the main at Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102031 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1805 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Some nice power to be had on the HDENLAU-03. The "BNSF" patch has almost rubbed off the cab of the Warbonnet. And that paint is pretty good by modern Warbonnet standards! Technical problems kept this train is the yard most of the morning and early afternoon, so the crew stopped at Broomfield to wait for a relief crew to take it north to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101976 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 10, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1503 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A lot of maintenance work on the BNSF Angora Sub (in northeastern Colorado) has forced the rerouting of several coal empties up the Front Range Sub in order to reach the Power River Basin. This particular empty sits in the siding at Broomfield to wait for a meet in a fresh coating of spring snow. The train is sufficiently long that it has had to cut Nickel Street in Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101975 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 10, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1418 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF At the north end of Broomfield at Burns Junction, a northbound Power River Basin coal reroute is stopped and waiting for a meet with a southbound. Some very nice (matching) power is on the point of the coal empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101887 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 1, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1838 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The first day of March in 2008 was a really beautiful one. Temperatures were in the 70's; near-record highs. The HDENLAU is passing Burns Junction at the north end of Broomfield. The mainline and the siding at Broomfield were once two separate mainlines owned by two different railroads. A short section of the track built by the Denver, Western and Pacific Railway still exists between Burns Junction and Lafayette. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101215 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 24, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1611 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF An extraordinarily grungy SD75M (in the Warbonnet scheme) leads a colorful consist on the HDENLAU-24 north through Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100938 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 9, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1865 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This wide angle shot shows the newly built road connecting Broomfield with the Northwest Parkway. In addition, these new apartments are quickly being built next ot the tracks. No doubt the future home of people complaining about the noisy trains running next to their house. Imagine what this will look like in twenty years when commuter rail runs through this location! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100937 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 9, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1799 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Amazing what a few months can do! Less than two years ago, the road in the foreground and the apartments in the background hadn't even been thought up yet! Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get good shots of this wonderful S-Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.