Photo ID: 102438 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 1754 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Just in case you wake up one morning and you are not sure what city you are in, you can always check to see if you can see the Quest Building. If you can, you're in Denver! Power for the Denver to Green River (WY) train sits waiting for a crew...and a train! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102439 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 4 Denver, CO 1616 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Two C44AC-CTEs and an AC4400CW bring a coal load headed for Paducah, KY down Bypass Two just east of C&S Junction. The empty just barely visible to the right will depart westbound as soon as the load is in the clear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102440 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed DS004 (Pecos) Denver, CO 1491 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The crossover at Pecos was installed when the Belt Bypass was built. Its main purpose is to allow coal trains to cut out their mid-train swing helpers before continuing east on the Limon Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102441 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stazio Boulder, CO 1805 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Empty hopper cars for the Valmont power plant are spotted on a storage track along the Stazio Fields in Boulder. Here, north of the fields, power for the Valmont train is about to back up and attach to the empty hoppers. Just ahead of the lead unit (in the distance) is the end of the line! Once upon a time, the track continue to UP's Dent Branch, but long gone are those days... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102442 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stazio Boulder, CO 1664 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just south of Butte Mill Road, power for the Valmont coal empty pause to give the conductor time to walk to the back of the train to protect a reverse move back to the main line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102443 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 24 Boulder, CO 1713 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Holding just shy of MP 24, the HDENLAU (Denver to Laurel) has a long wait ahead of it! The Valmont coal empty is working on putting its train together and this train won't be moving until the coal train is clear...about two hours later. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102444 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 24 Boulder, CO 1718 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The north side of Burke Hill has a 2% grade coming down into Boulder. The DENLAU has an H2 C44-9W, Warbonnet C44-9W and an H2 SD75M for power. The train is stopped at MP 24 to wait for the Valmont empty to clear ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102445 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 28 Boulder, CO 1827 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF For decades, coal for the Valmont power plant has come from western Colorado. However, starting in November 2008, the coal is now coming from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. BNSF now gets all the business (whereas UP ran the train to and from the mine). BNSF will route the loaded train down the Brush Sub and the empty north on the Front Range Sub. Here is the first train headed north on on the Sub, approaching the Foothills Blvd Underpass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102446 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 31 Boulder, CO 1957 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF On the approach to MP 32 (and the 47th Street grade crossing), An ES44AC and a pair of SD70ACes have the northbound Valmont empty on the roll in Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102447 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 35 Boulder, CO 2431 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Northbounds are always hard to shoot on the Front Range Sub, but that problems tends to get worse in the winter months when the sun is further to the south. The sun is almost directly behind this Valmont empty as it makes its way north past 63rd Street along the Diagonal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102448 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 44 Longmont, CO 2253 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Main Street USA! Also know as Atwood Street in Longmont. The Front Range Sub runs right up the middle of Atwood Street and a Valmont coal empty is currently occupying the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102449 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 15, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 34 Boulder, CO 2107 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF There's about 15 minutes left before the sun will duck behind the mountains. After waiting a few hours for the Valmont empty to clear, the Denver to Laurel finally has a warrant to proceed north toward Longmont. Cars are pacing the train on the Diagonal here has three engines work to take the train north in the setting sun. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.