Photo ID: 112200 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific At Platteville, the MGRNY takes the siding for a meet with two northbounds. The first will be this trains counterpart, the MNYGR which departed from North Yard in Denver about 90 minutes earlier. UP 9795's train is 5500 feet long, which will easily fit in the siding. However, the train will hang out the north end of the siding for a little while so it can avoid blocking County Road 32, one of the main roads in town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112201 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A couple years ago, UP's Greeley Sub was the busiest single track mainline in the country! I am not sure if it still holds that title today in 2025. Regardless, it is still a very busy mainline. Not only due to through trains, but there are dozens of customers that are active along the line, taking and making shipments by rail. UP 9795 is taking the siding here at Platteville as two northbounds, one through and one local, are both out of Brighton. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112202 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fort Lupton (MP 25.8) La Salle, CO 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 7609 crosses County Road 14½ on the way north on the Greeley Sub. This train is UP's daily North Yard to Green River, WY manifest, and is quite massive today. The train was broken across three tracks in North Yard due to its length. The train has 166 cars, totaling 9,618 feet in length! Pretty impressive, particularly when considering there are only three units! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112203 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 10 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 7609 and two additional units leads a very long MNYGR on the main at Platteville. The 9600-foot train is well-blocked, with stretches of like cars that are probably headed to the same customer, or at least the same city. The train is slow rolling as it just passed an Approach (yellow) signal. It is meeting a southbound that has not yet cleared the north switch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112204 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Essentially all of the general manifest traffic that rolls between Denver, CO and points west (on Union Pacific) is in this shot! UP has a daily train that runs west from Denver to Green River, WY (the train on the left), and a counterpart that comes to Denver from Green River, WY (the train on the right). Since UP stopped running general manifest trains west of Grand Junction, CO, cars running between Denver and Salt Lake City are also on these trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112205 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) La Salle, CO 10 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 9795 has cleared the north switch of Platteville, and the northbound it is meeting is starting to accelerate after receiving a clear (green) signal at the north end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112206 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detector (MP 28.4) La Salle, CO 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific One of the locals that UP runs out of La Salle, the LDI07, has completed its work at Brighton. It is headed back to La Salle with four tank cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112207 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Vestas Brighton, CO 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) WAMX The Vesta plant in Brighton makes use of a leased SW1200 to switch cars around in their yard. On this particular Sunday afternoon, the unit is shut down and sitting quiet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112208 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Vestas Brighton, CO 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots WAMX The plant at Vestas in Brighton, CO, located right off of UP's Greeley Sub, You can see the strings of cars that are loaded with nacelles for windmill generators. Sunday looks like a quiet day for the plant at Vestas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112209 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hazeltine (8,232ft) Henderson, CO 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A single ES44AC is getting ready to pick up a string of empty autoracks that are currently tied down in the siding at Hazeltine. The conductor just attached an EOT device to the end of the string, and the unit is about to head to the east end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112210 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hazeltine (8,232ft) Henderson, CO 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 8139 is headed south alongside the string of autoracks that are tied down in the siding at Hazeltine that the single unit is about to pick up and depart south with. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112211 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hazeltine (8,232ft) Henderson, CO 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The siding of Hazeltine is often plugged with autoracks that have been switched at Rolla, UP's auto facility just south of Hazeltine. 112th Avenue crosses the siding near the north end, which means that autoracks tied down frequently need to be broken up across 112th to allow traffic to cross. You can see that situation here. UP 8139 will soon put this train together so it can depart south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112212 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W011 (South Hazeltine) Henderson, CO 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific After getting stuck north of Hazeltine for a short time to allow a power move onto a train on the siding at Hazeltine, UP 9795 gets to continue south toward North Yard. A few years ago, UP extended the track from the siding at Hazeltine south to the auto facility at Rolla, effectively creating a long switching lead for Rolla. Previously, the Rolla job would often have to use the main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112213 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W004 (Beltline Connection) Denver, CO 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific I have wanted to try to get a shot at this location for quite a long time, and was finally able to make it happen. UP 9795 and train are coming off the Greeley Sub, wrapping around the north leg of a wye that leads to the Belt Industrial Lead. You can see the inbound main for the 36th Street Yard in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112214 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS903 (UP Jct) Denver, CO 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific After coming off of UP's Greeley Sub, the MGRNY is at the far east end of the 4½ mile Belt Industrial Lead. The train has just passed underneath BNSF's Brush Sub, and is about to pass underneath Brighton Blvd on its journey toward North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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