Photo ID: 104867 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1492 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Longs Peak stands tall in glorious December morning light as a southbound manifest rolls down the main at Broomfield. The train just received a track warrant between the north and south ends of Broomfield. It will hold the main to meet two northbound coal empties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104868 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1542 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) NREX, BNSF In the last few years, Union Pacific retired some of its older power such as C40-8's and SD60's. Frequently when old power is retired by a Class 1, it either winds up on a smaller railroad, or it is picked up by a leasing company. Such is the case here. This SD60 was picked up by National Railway Equipment Leasing and is currently putting in hours on BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104869 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1455 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF While I do not personally care for the short days of winter, I do like the quality of light generated by the low sun in the morning and the evening. This southbound Cheyenne-Denver manifest, with power representing three different decades, heads south on the main at Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104870 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 1476 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just north of milepost 12, along Church Ranch Lake, a northbound coal empty picks up some speed as it approaches a work zone. The bridge that carries US-36 over the tracks in Westminster is being rebuilt, requiring a Form B to protect the construction workers. Everyone is in the clear here and the empty is now headed for Broomfield where it will run through the siding and meet a southbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104871 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Boulder, CO 1530 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF It has been seven years since I worked in Boulder, so it is good to swing through town once in awhile and get a shot of train. The flat irons looks good in the background as this coal empty approaches 55th Street along the Diagonal Highway on the north side of Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104872 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berthoud Berthoud, CO 1722 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF 2014 or 1994? This southbound local has a trio of SD40-2s for power. The lead unit has the "white face" that Burlington Northern developed to try to increase visibility to oncoming trains. You may recall that they also developed an "orange face" as well that was applied to some GP50s. So if you use your imagination, maybe that second BNSF SD40-2 is just an orange face GP50! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104873 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berthoud Berthoud, CO 1424 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF I have no problem admitting that the SD40-2 (and its variants...such as the SD40T-2, of course!) is my favorite engine of all time. I doubt that will every change. So, when there is a train (even if it is a local) that is running with a solid set of SD40-2s, it makes me happy! The SD40-2 is about 40 years old now and it isn't going to be around forever. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104874 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1420 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF You want to talk about and interesting power combination on an interesting train! A Warbonnet matched up with a Canadian Nations C40-8M (a cowl unit), sitting together on a "blade train" (windmill blades) in the siding at North Yard. A Great Western crew just brought this train from the Vestas plant in Windsor, CO and tied it down here on the siding at North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104875 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1439 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Notice anything special about this Warbonnet? How about the fact that there isn't a "BNSF" patch visible anywhere on the engineer's side! Not sure why there isn't one, but I'm not complaining about a Warbonnet that looks to be "pure Santa Fe" in 2014, 19 years after the creation of BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104876 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1490 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian National Canadian National has a fair number of "cowl" units, meaning the walkways along the sides of the unit are inside the car body rather than outside. Internally this unit is simply a GE C40-8. Since it has the cowl body, it is designated as a C40-8M. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104877 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1475 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF This southbound train with very unique power is tied down in the siding at North Yard in Fort Collins (right at milepost 76)! A Great Western crew brought the train to this point (it was interchanged from the Great Western). A BNSF crews has been called out of Cheyenne and was enroute at the time of this picture. Upon arrival, the crew would untie the train and take it to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104878 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cheyenne Cheyenne, WY 1901 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Norfolk Southern One of Norfolk Southern's 20 heritage units (NS 8099, the Southern Heritage Unit) has been spending some time on the left side of the country! It came to Cheyenne on the HLAUDEN (Laurel, MT to Denver, CO) manifest and was pulled off in the yard at Cheyenne. It was not in a particularly accessible location, so this was about the best shot I could get. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104879 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cheyenne Cheyenne, WY 1509 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Norfolk Southern A 500mm shot of the Southern Heritage Unit (NS 8099). It is sitting in the yard at Cheyenne, awaiting its next assignment. At least it wasn't entirely obstructed! I'll take a long, slightly awkward angle over no shot at all. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104880 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cheyenne Cheyenne, WY 1482 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A northbound coal empty glides along the fill that will take it across UP's Overland Route in Cheyenne. This crews journey is nearing their end as they have taken the train from Denver to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104881 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cheyenne Cheyenne, WY 1521 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF In Cheyenne, BNSF's north/south Front Range Subdivision crosses over UP's Overland Route. A BNSF Coal empty is approaching the BNSF yard (the train is ultimately headed for the Powder River Basin in northern Wyoming) while all four UP main tracks currently lie empty and quiet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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