Photo ID: 102023 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 1817 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific This 52-car MNPDV-02 (if my counting is accurate!) left North Platte, NE a day earlier and is seen here coming down the inbound track to UP's 36th Street Yard off the Greeley Sub. A day later, this same power would be used on the MDVNP and return north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102024 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 49 Longmont, CO 1941 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A few miles north of Longmont at Vermillion Road, this southbound HPASSAG has stopped so as not to block any crossing. Two southbounds ahead of it and the crew will hold here until they get a warrant south of Longmont. Note the new ties along the side of the track. Looks like BNSF is planning some maintenance for the summer! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102025 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 47 Longmont, CO 1928 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF After receiving a new warrant south of Longmont, this southbound has just started pulling at Vermillion Road. The new warrant will take the train south to MP 25 in Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102026 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 1817 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF At Longmont, this southbound manifest is slowly making its way through the street course known as Longmont! Over a 5 1/2 mile section of track, trains have to blow their horn through 17 grade crossing (including the run down Atwood Street). Here, the train is running parallel to 1st Avenue, about to pass underneath the Terry Street overpass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102027 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32.5 Boulder, CO 2076 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just north of Boulder, this HPASSAG (with a rather colorful consist) is getting close to the end of its warrant at MP 25. Fortunately, the southbound ahead of this train will roll up its warrant to MP 17, allowing this manifest to continue without stopping through Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102028 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 13 Broomfield, CO 1777 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just south of Broomfield, this southbound HLAUDEN is finally on the roll again after waiting for nearly an hour at Broomfield for the HDENLAU to get out of town and into the clear in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102029 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 13 Broomfield, CO 1696 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The HLAUDEN had some colorful power on this particular day. The second unit has to be just about the cleanest H2 units on the roster! It is one of the few SD75Ms on BNSFs roster to lose its Warbonnet scheme in favor on the Heritage 2 scheme. Meanwhile, it looks like that CSX C40-8W has seen better days! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102030 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1664 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A few weeks ago, the Longmont Turn power consisted of two Cascade Green SD40-2s. Both of those units must have gone in for inspections because this Yellow-Bonnet SD40-2 and New Image ES44AC are in charge now! The light power is headed down the main at Broomfield. Once in town, it'll pick up cars to take back north to Longmont. 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 1709 (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: 102032 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 17 Broomfield, CO 1709 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Two southbounds ahead of this train meant its warrants ran out at MP 17, so it had to stop and wait for the train ahead of it to get further down the track. With that requirement completed, a new warrant has been issued and the crew throttles up to continue south. You can always count on GE's to put on a good show when throttling up! 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 1825 (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: 102034 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1771 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) EMD Leasing I have heard the question come up in the railfan community how many siding there are that aren't quite parallel to the main. The siding of Broomfield is an excellent example of this! Not only are the tracks not quite parallel, but they actually lay on two different grades. The HPASSAG (in the foreground) heads south on the main while the HDENLAU (in the background) holds on the elevated siding. It will be interesting to see how much this changes with the introduction of commuter trains along here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102035 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14 Arvada, CO 2658 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A barge in the Mississippi slammed into a BNSF bridge in Iowa on Thursday, shutting down the bridge. Unfortunately, this is the same bridge that the California Zephyr uses to cross the Mississippi! Consequently, the Zephyr had to take a very long reroute. Here, the westbound Zephyr is running nearly nine hours late as it heads west of Leyden in late afternoon light. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.