Photo ID: 110391 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W086 (North Carr) Carr, CO 105 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 8205, leading the ZLBDV-12, knocks down a Diverging Approach (red over yellow) signal at the north end of Carr, heading in to the siding. The northbound train that is being met is already between switches on the main. Should be just another few weeks and the trees here will have their leaves back for the summer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110392 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Nunn Weld County, CO 97 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Not too far north of Nunn on the Greeley Sub, a quartet of GEs has this southbound Z-Train on the move at track speed. Since PSR (Precision Scheduled Railroading) has somewhat taken over several railroads, there are more "mixed" trains. Case-in-point is this Z-Train which has many auto racks on the front, and traditional stacks and pigs on the rear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110393 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W045 (South La Salle) La Salle, CO 111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 8205 and train have a clear (green) signal on the main at the south switch of La Salle. You may note that there is a derail set on the siding here. That is due to a local that is currently in the siding and switching out cars at the yard in La Salle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110394 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South of Platteville Weld County, CO 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific After passenger trains, the second most difficult train to get ahead of is definitely a Z-Train! I was able to set up for this shot just south of Platteville, with four GEs on the point. But this would be the last shot I was able to get prior to the train arriving in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110395 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 115 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande With a mid-day lull in action, I decided to stop by the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver. This is the forever home of Rio Grande GP30 #3006! This unit sat at Burnham for over a decade, waiting for find out what would happen to it. Fortunately, it has a great home, protected from the conditions of the outside world. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110396 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 102 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Six years prior to this shot, DRGW 3006 was moved from Burnham to this location inside the Forney Transportation Museum. To the best of my knowledge, it is one of only two Rio Grande GP30s that have been preserved as Rio Grande units, both being in Colorado. In my very early days of rail photography back in 1997, I actually got a very similar shot (in terms of perspective) of DRGW 3006 when it was working in North Yard! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110397 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 91 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande The Forney Museum has done a great job of working on restoration of DRGW 3006. The graffiti has all been cleaned off, and the class lights and Mars lights have been restored. I really liked this perspective, looking up toward the number board and nose from the ground inside the Forney Museum. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110398 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver has a lot of great, classic equipment. Trains, cars, motorcycles, and even a few small planes. One of the "crown jewels" of the train collection is UP 4005. It is one of only 25 that were produced between 1941 and 1944. This particular one is "stuffed" meaning it is no longer operable. But it looks pretty great sitting inside the museum, safe and protected from the outside conditions of the world. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110399 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 106 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Rio Grande caboose 01447 has been saved from the scrapper. It was donated to the Forney Museum of Transportation and it sits in the parking lot of the museum. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110400 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The ZLBDV has arrived in Denver and is currently shoving cars back in to the intermodal facility located just off of UP's 36th Street Yard. This entire area, known as the Rhino District of Denver, has radically changed in the past 10-15 years. Massive apartment complexes have built up all around the yard. New restaurants have opened in the area and new bridges cross the yard to connect either side of the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110401 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 91 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A GP38-2 (now designated as a GP38N after a rebuilt by UP) and an SD40-2 sit together near the yard office in North Yard. These two units are idle at the moment, but when needed, they'll be used as switcher in the yard. It is pretty easy to trace the heritage of UP 737 by virtue of the fact that it has no dynamic brakes. With very few exception, nearly any unit without dynamic brakes is of Missouri Pacific heritage. MoPac ordered many units that had no dynamic brakes as MoPac ran in (relatively) flat lands. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110402 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 89 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An SD70M sits just south of the engine shop at North Yard. With all heavy maintenance having been moved to North Platte, I'm not even sure to what extent maintenance on engines can be done at North Yard these days. Regardless, the shop door is open on a Sunday afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110403 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 83 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 6696 sits near the North Yard shops with blue flags posted. Behind UP 6696, a string of engines sit on the ready track. As the name implies, engines on the ready track are ready for their next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110404 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 8745 sits on the ready track at North Yard, awaiting its next assignment. Looks as though the trucks may have recently been swapped out. The shade of gray definitely does not quite match the fuel tank! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110405 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Golden, CO 96 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Sunday afternoon Beer Run runs alongside West 44th Avenue in Golden. The train has a pair of SD40-2s that will serve as the Golden Switch power for the upcoming week. The train is headed for the upper yard at Coors. This yard primarily contains cars for industries other than Coors along the branch that the Golden Switch will switch out in the coming week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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