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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Stock Yards
Denver, CO
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Belt Industrial Lead (UP)
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Union Pacific
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An SD70ACe leads UP's MNYGR (Manifest from North Yard, CO to Green River, WY). The length of train varies from day-to-day. This Sunday morning, the train is an impressive 142 cars long. Over 8,000 feet in length, including the power. Here, the train is making its way across the Belt Industrial Lead, passing by the Stock Yards and about to cross over York Street.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Cherokee Power Station
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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XCLX
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Echoes of the Past
At Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station in northeast Denver, a string of Xcel Energy owned coal hoppers sit silent on slowly rusting rails. Until 2017, the plant was powered by coal from the Colorado high country. For the last seven years, the plant has been fired exclusively by natural gas. The coal trains were emptied in the rotary dump within the blue building to the left.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Cherokee Power Station
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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XCLX
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This blue building houses a rotary dump. When coal trains powered the power plant here, trains were pulled through this building. One car at a time, the car was secured to the track and the entire car was rotated upside down to dump out the coal. Underground conveyor belts took the coal to the plant. This rotary dump has now been silent for seven years, likely to never be active again, as the power plant is now entirely fueled by natural gas.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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East Portal (5,750 ft)
Gilpin County, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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BNSF
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It seems like there have been more C44-9Ws wearing the original Heritage scheme running around lately. These units earned the nickname "goat boats". The history there is in two parts. "Goat" comes from logo of the Great Northern railroad, from which much of the inspiration of the Heritage scheme was taken. "Boat" comes from the reference to 1st and 2nd generation GE units as "U-Boats", from their model IDs (U25B, U30C, etc).
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