Photo ID: 111868 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 82 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific At first glance, you might expect that I made a little trip to somewhere along the Canadian Pacific in Canada! In reality, a bit of Canada came to Colorado, in Brush, CO specifically. A pair of CP units leads this loaded grain train west on the Brush Sub. The train was loaded in Canada and was turned over to BNSF, the CP units staying on the train, in Sweet Grass, MT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111869 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Corona to Bijou Morgan County, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Between the sidings of Corona and Bijou, an eastbound BNSF coal empty is moving quickly along, but starting to slow as it will be taking the siding ahead at Bijou. You might not that the headlight has already been dimmed as the train is meeting a westbound grain train, already stopped and waiting on the main at Bijou. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111870 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Bijou Morgan County, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific A westbound BNSF grain train with a pair of CP units leading is stopped on the main near the west end of Bijou, just west of Fort Morgan on the Colorado plains. The train just met a coal empty and is waiting for a signal to proceed west. A pivot watering system sits in a farmer's field, waiting for spring time and seed planting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111871 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Bijou Morgan County, CO 87 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific Word of a pair of Canadian Pacific units leading a westbound grain train on the Brush Sub spread quickly to a lot of railfans. Six of them are gathered on the County Road 12 overpass at the west switch of Bijou, just west of Fort Morgan. The are getting their shots as the grain train slowly starts to accelerate after meeting a coal empty, which is visible in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111872 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Bijou Morgan County, CO 68 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific CP 7007 and CP 8501 just knocked down a clear (green) signal at the west end of Bijou on the BNSF Brush Sub. A half a dozen railfans (myself not included) came out here to the County Road 12 overpass to get a few shots of the visitors from the north. A pair of Canadian Pacific units is unusual enough, but the SD70ACu on the point, rebuilt from a SD9043MAC, is rare enough that it added even more motivation to get track side for a few shots. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111873 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Wiggins Morgan County, CO 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific Unfortunately, after a sunny day with virtually no clouds anywhere in the sky, the later afternoon gave way to clouds quickly moving in from the mountains to the west, eliminating direct sunlight for the pair of CP units leading a grain train west on the Brush Sub. Indeed, overcast skies are found here at the west switch of Wiggins and the train continues toward Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111874 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Keensburg Keensburg, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific I was hoping, along with several other railfans, to get a shot of this CP-led grain train in sunlight at the spot known colloquially among railfans as "Keensburg Curve". There was a sliver a sunlight between cloud layers that probably would have worked out perfect, if the train did not have to stop at Market Street in Keensburg. You might notice in this shot that the crossing gates are up. The conductor had to get off the train and protect the grade crossing as the engineer brought the train across the grade crossing. It had to stop again, of course, to let the conductor back on the train. I was able to get this shot at the grade crossing in some decent light. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111875 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Keensburg Curve Weld County, CO 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian Pacific After chasing this unit grain train for about 3 1/2 hours on the Brush Sub, I was really hoping that there would be some direct sunlight available here at "Keensburg Curve". Alas, overcast skies prevent that. However, it's still hard to complain with a unique shot like this one, regardless of the lighting. CP 7007 (a former SD9043MAC, #9119, now an SD70ACu) and CP 8501 (an AC4400CW) leads this loaded grain train, headed for Guernsey, CA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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