Photo ID: 103675 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South Denver (MP 8) Denver, CO 2511 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific It is a beautiful President's Day 2011 as UP's South Local proceeds through a clear signal on Main 1 at South Denver. This is the local where two main tracks go to triple track when heading south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103676 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Military Jct (MP 10) Sheridan, CO 2387 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific The branch line at Military Jct runs across Santa Fe Drive west a few blocks along Oxford Avenue to Western Metals Recycling. I've wanted to get a shot of a train on this branch for years and finally got the opportunity on this afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103677 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Military Jct (MP 10) Sheridan, CO 2264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific UP's South Local backs down the Military Jct branch on the south side of Oxford Avenue. Empty gondolas are being spotted at Western Metal Recycling so the scrap can be hauled away by rail. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103678 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Military Jct (MP 10) Sheridan, CO 2599 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific Near the east end of the Military Jct branch, UP's South Local throttle up in order to pull a huge string of loaded gondolas up the steep grade on the branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103679 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Military Jct (MP 10) Sheridan, CO 2312 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific After picking up a string of empty gondolas, UP's South Local is backing away from the camera to head down the Military Jct branch after crossing Santa Fe Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103680 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Military Jct (MP 10) Sheridan, CO 2369 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Who knows how much longer this branch line will remain active! For the time being, however, it sees a train twice a week when UP's South Local comes to switch out one or two industries on the branch. Here, the power for the South Local is return light to the Joint Line, which crosses over Oxford on the bridge in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103681 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 8 Denver, CO 2068 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Just south of the old Gates Rubber plant, a southbound BNSF coal load is moving quickly along on Main 1. Coal empties awaiting new crews sit on both Mains 2 and 3. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103682 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South Denver (MP 8) Denver, CO 2428 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Here we go! 2011 and you can still find a train with nothing but Warbonnets on it from time to time. Granted there are only two units, but I'll take it. A C44-9W and an SD75M lead the Denver, CO to Pueblo, CO manifest. Here the train enters the "triple track" section of the Joint Line in south Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103683 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 11 Littleton, CO 2390 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF With the sun getting rather low in the western sky, the Warbonnet leading this manifest finds a sunny spot as the train climbs out of the Littleton Trench about a mile away from the end of CTC and the start of ABS and Track Warrants. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103684 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14 Littleton, CO 2365 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Despite being a bit on the tattered side, these Warbonnets still look fantastic in the afternoon light. An interesting thing happened just after this shot. The conductor on the train came down and opened the nose door, clearly with the intention of trying to screw up my shot. I've heard of crews doing that before, but this was my first (personal) experience with it. At least I got the good shot before they did that! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103685 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14 Littleton, CO 2042 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF We are a bit south of the triple track and BNSF's Denver, CO to Pueblo, CO manifest is rolling along on Main 1. There was about 10 minutes of sun when I nabbed this shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103686 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 15 Littleton, CO 2142 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Hopefully you aren't sick of all these Warbonnet shots just yet! Here is one final one taken two minutes before sunset. The train is on Main 1 and crossing over US-85 just north of Blakeland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103687 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 18 Blakeland, CO 2047 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Just south of Blakeland, this coal load went into emergency with power issues and had to come to a stop. The dispatcher let the train know they could go retrieve a spare unit from Castle Rock or have a manifest behind them cut off their power. I had to leave before hearing what the final resolution was. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.