Photo ID: 110820 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Of UP's six heritage units, UP 1983 is the one I had not seen the longest (eight years earlier, as of this shot). The angle and clutter in the shot isn't great, but I still wanted to get a shot while it was in Denver. It is currently sitting on the ready track in Denver, awaiting its next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110821 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An SD60M, with a bit of a sketchy paint scheme, sits on a shop track in North Yard. Not sure where the unit is headed from here. Storage? Sale? Rebuild? Any of the three seems like a possibility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110822 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A pair of SD60Ms sit on a shop track in North Yard. UP 2465 was delivered to UP in March 1992 and UP 2498 was delivered to UP in October 1992. 32 years later and both units are still on the roster. I don't recall the last time I saw an SD60M on the main, so not entirely sure where these two units came from or where they are headed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110823 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 51 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific With the cost and seemingly frequent mechanical issues of Tier-4 locomotives, many railroads have taken to rebuilding rather than buying new. UP is no exception, as they have been rebuilding C44-9Ws, C44AC-CTEs, and others into C44ACMs. UP 5830 is a good example, as it sports UP's newest official scheme on the ready tracks in North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110824 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian Pacific, BNSF In a sea of BNSF orange is a single spot of red with a Canadian Pacific ES44AC. I don't see a lot of these units in Denver, and with the CPKC merger, it is only a matter of time before this paint scheme fades in to history. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110825 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Kansas City Southern de Mexico A pair of KCS units sit on ready tracks at BNSF's engine facility in Denver. KCS 4548 is actually a KCS de Mexico unit, and one of the few-remaining gray units on the roster. Of course, both units are now under the CPKC banner and, eventually, will be repainted accordingly. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110826 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 51 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Unlike UP, which has essentially moved all maintenance out of Denver, BNSF still has a fair amount of maintenance that takes places in Denver. Additionally, BNSF tends to have more power hanging out in Denver compared to UP. As seen here, the service and ready tracks around the shops are packed full of power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110827 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF I have long appreciated the fact that, when patching old Santa Fe and Burlington Northern units, BNSF matched the color scheme for the patches. Unlike UP, which simply slapped a yellow and red patch on the cabs. Nearly 30 years after the BNSF merger, a blue and yellow GP39-2 is seen hanging out around the Denver yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110828 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern de Mexico So in this shot, we have a Canadian unit in CP 8860 and a Mexican unit in KCSM 4548 sit in the middle of the US here in Denver. Of course, both these units are now owned by CPKC, the first (and so far only) railroad to span from Canada to Mexico. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110829 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 54 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF It looks like a well car must have been bad-ordered and set out here near the engine house. Considering it has two JB Hunt double stacks, it seems possible this was cut out of the Denver to Chicago Z-Train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110830 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Here is a wide variety of classic EMD units, most of which have been rebuilt to one extent or another. BNSF 2549 is a GP39-3, rebuilt from a GP30. You can still see the GP30 dynamic brake intakes and two of the three radiator fans. Back in the distance on the next track over, you can see what was once an SD45-2, now an SD40-2. The power is sitting at the shop, just off of the main through Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110831 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A BNSF yard job is waiting on a string of covered hoppers for BNSF's Laurel to Denver manifest (that just came off the Front Range Sub) to clear so it can continue switching. The train is pulling in to Track 46. In the distance, Sunday morning traffic hustles along on I-25. Further in the distance, you can see the interchange between I-25 and I-70, referred to by locals as "The Mouse Trap". Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110832 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS050 (West East Portal) Gilpin County, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Three lights in a triangle arrange, reflecting off the rails, are the tell-tail sign of an approaching eastbound train coming up to the east end of the Moffat Tunnel. Of course, the question is what train is about to emerge. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110833 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS050 (West East Portal) Gilpin County, CO 52 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A BNSF SD70ACe emerges back into the sunlight at the east end of the Moffat Tunnel. The east end of the tunnel also happens to be the west end of East Portal. This train went into emergency in the tunnel, about halfway through. Fortunately, the crew was able to take care of the problem, and it continued east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110834 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS050 (West East Portal) Gilpin County, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Eastbounds, other than (perhaps) Amtrak, are kind of tough to shoot coming out of the Moffat Tunnel. With the fall of ATCS, there is no real way to know when one might emerge, so it tends to be luck of the draw. Today, luck was on my side as I was able to get a shot of BNSF's Provo-Lincoln manifest, all tank cars at the head end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

Next Page