Photo ID: 111241 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A handful of BNSF units sit near the engine facility in Denver. There are actually typically more units sitting here, but things are a bit light on this Sunday morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111242 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 30 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF I love that nearly 30 years after the merger between Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, you can still find units holding on to their Cascade Green schemes! True, the paint is a bit shoddy, but it is still BN green. An SD40-2 and a former GP30, rebuilt into a GP38-3, hang out near the engine house. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111243 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF An interesting pairing between an SD75I and an SD60M sit near the BNSF engine house in Denver. It has been a full decade since I last shot a BNSF SD75I and nine years since I shot a BNSF SD60M! Indeed, I suspect it is the first time I've ever seen these models paired up together. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111244 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 32 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF An SD60M and an SD75I, in matching New Image schemes, sit near the engine house in Denver. BNSF 1448 was sported Cascade Green with a white BN herald on the nose. BNSF 290 originally wore the Warbonnet scheme. Very interesting finding these two units together. They are pretty rare in 2024 as most of either model have been in long term storage. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111245 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 48 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is making its scheduled stop at Denver Union Station in a scene that is now an urban jungle, radically different from how it looked 20 years earlier. The Zephyr has received all of its releases and will be ready to pull at its scheduled departure time of 8:46am. Note the A-Line and N-Line commuter trains sitting on the tracks to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111246 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 36 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr passes underneath the signal bridge at C&S Junction. The Zephyr is running right on time as it charges west on Main 3 (changing to Main 2 here at C&S). Four tracks collapse down to just two when heading westbound here at C&S. The four tracks, from left-to-right, are Bypass (Main) 1, Bypass (Main) 2, Main 3, and the North Yard Siding. The two tracks in the foreground, from left-to-right, are Main 1 and Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111247 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 31 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It is a reasonably pleasant November morning here at C&S Junction as the westbound Zephyr crosses Federal Blvd on Main 2. It is around 50°F outside, and slowly warming up. It may be the last temperate day for awhile as, starting tomorrow, there is at least a 40% chance for snow all the way until next Sunday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111248 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hudson to Keensburg Keensburg, CO 32 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A BNSF coal train that loaded in the Powder River Basin, specifically at the East Black Thunder Mine, now heads west on the main on the western edge of the small Colorado Plains town of Keensburg. Once reaching Denver, the crew will change and the train will turn south on the Joint Line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111249 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hudson to Keensburg Keensburg, CO 25 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A coal load from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming is likely headed for a power plant somewhere in Texas. The train will continue west on the Brush Sub to Denver before turning south on the Joint Line, down in to Texas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111250 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hudson to Keensburg Keensburg, CO 25 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A pair of SD70ACes bring up the back of a westbound loaded coal train moving away from the camera. With very few exceptions, BNSF coal trains run in a 2x2 configuration, and this train falls right in to that standard category. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111251 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Irondale Adams County, CO 31 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Four ES44s (a mix of ES44ACs and ES44C4s) lead an extremely long intermodal train that is actually originating from the Logistics Center Hudson, about 30 miles northeast of Denver. The massive train is headed for the piers in Long Beach, CA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111252 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS007 (Arvada) Arvada, CO 33 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Are you familiar with a moveable point frog as it related to a switch (turnout)? Most switches have a frog that is a single piece of steel with groves for wheel flanges. However, in situations where the turnout needs to support higher speed and/or it needs to support heavier trains, railroads will sometimes install a moveable point frog. Similar to the standard switch point, a moveable point frog requires a second turnout motor and it moves the frog back and forth, create a far smoother (and safer) turnout for heavier trains at higher speeds. This particular moveable point frog is located at CP DS007 (Arvada). When UP added a second main track between C&S Junction and Arvada, the added this turnout for coal trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111253 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS007 (Arvada) Arvada, CO 32 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 6558 leads UP's MGJNY east on Main 2 at CP DS007 (Arvada), just a few miles west of North Yard. The train is on Main 2 as it approaches the grade crossing at Lamar Street on the eastern edge of Arvada. To the left is the Arvada siding and to the right is Main 1. The train departed the yard in Grand Junction the previous day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111254 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed C&S Jct to Arvada (MP 4.8 to MP MP 7.5) Denver, CO 26 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Four units lead a relatively short (compared to this trains typical length) 67 car manifest east on Main 2. This is the only manifest UP still runs on the Moffat. The cars come from industries in Grand Junction as well as on the Craig Branch. A few coal loads and a lot of covered hoppers are pretty typical for the train, and today is no exception. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111255 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos X-Over to C&S Jct (MP 4.0 to MP 4.8) Denver, CO 30 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver, with elephant-style GEs on the point, approaches the I-76 overpass between C&S Junction and Pecos Crossover. The train would normally be on Main 3 (second from the right), but UP's MGJNY arrives just minutes earlier and is working on getting into North Yard. To avoid delaying this train, DS-378 aligned it east on Bypass (Main) 2. At Pecos Crossover, the train will move to Main 3 to continue east to BNSF's 31st Street Yard. 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