Photo ID: 111291 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 373 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Union Pacific An eastbound UP MGJNY has just crossed Kipling Street in Arvada, and is continuing east on the final seven miles or so in to North Yard. Snow has been falling all day and continues now, but the relatively warm temperatures (34°F / 1°C) are keeping the snow from accumulating too much on the ground. You may have noticed the above caption is the same as the previous picture. I could not decide which perspective I liked more, so I decided to include both pictures, even though they were basically shot at the same time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111143 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 2, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 331 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF A look at the radiator section of BNSF 4272 after a derailment in which the unit fell onto its side, denting and damaging all portions of the unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111101 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 253 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Union Pacific A westbound oil empty emerges from Tunnel one on a beautiful September afternoon. The day did not start quite as beautiful as it was overcast, drizzling, and cold this morning. In fact, I took a picture of another oil empty at this same spot in the morning. Note the crazy change in weather! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110537 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 6, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr wraps around the curve at the base of the north edge of Big Ten Loop. AMTK 60 and (freshly painted) AMTK 75 are leading the train this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109902 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 356 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr rolls along at Rocky, entering the curve that will take it through Little Ten, and then Big Ten curves. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109882 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 3, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 682 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Amtrak The morning Zephyr crossing Blue Mountain crossing in a December snow storm. The train departed Denver on time, but several 15 MPH slow orders is causing it to lose just a little bit of time on the journey west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109741 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 384 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF Since the Provo-Denver was stopped in the siding, I decided to take advantage and get several different shots of BNSF 4729, sporting a paint scheme that mixes the Heritage 2 scheme and the Warbonnet scheme. It is somewhat surprising that, after four years, BNSF has not yet paint or swapped out the long hood on the unit to get back to a uniform scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109723 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 9, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 343 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Amtrak The morning westbound Zephyr is running about 1 hour and 15 minutes behind schedule as it leaves the west end of Rocky. A storm came through yesterday that left a couple inches of snow in the foothills. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106592 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Otis Otis, CO 1415 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF Like virtually all plains towns in the United States, the small town of Otis has a water tower standing tall over the town, the town's name proudly painted on the tower. This BNSF stack train is crossing one of the two grade crossing in the town as it journeys east toward its destination of Omaha, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106591 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Otis Otis, CO 1759 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF An eastbound stack train approaches the Washington Street grade crossing in the small plains town of Otis, CO. This train originated in Tacoma, WA five days earlier and is headed for Omaha, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106590 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Yuma Yuma County, CO 1347 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF This will be the end of the chase of this Denver to Chicago Z-Train on this particular day. Commitments back home later in the day, mixed with the time it'll take to get back home (with a little chasing along the way) means this is the eastern-most point of this trip. The Z-Train approaches a clear signal at the west end of the siding of Yuma. We are about 40 miles west of the Colorado-Nebraska border here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106589 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Yuma Yuma County, CO 1349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF There is a great bridge just west of Yuma, CO in which US-34 crosses over the tracks. It offers a nice opportunity to get some elevated shots of both eastbounds and westbounds. Here, an eastbound Z-Train is moving at track speed (around 60 MPH) as it approaches a clear signal at West Yuma. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106588 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Yuma Yuma County, CO 1418 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF Even though the plains are indeed quite flat, you might find it curious that this eastbound Z-Train has only two units. The reason being that, despite this train being loaded with containers (up front) and trailers (toward the back), it is actually almost entirely empty. Denver tends to be a net receiver of goods, so intermodal trains come to Denver loaded, but frequently end up leaving largely empty. That fact is reflected in the trains symbol. This is the ZDENCHI7-22. The "7" in the symbol indicates this train is an extension off another high priority train. If this was a loaded train, it would have the symbol ZDENCHI9-22. The "9" in the symbol (on Z-Trains) indicates the train 1st section, critical arrival. There are no higher-priority trains on the system than "Z9" trains. Still, the dispatcher will keep this "Z7" rolling over most other trains on the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106587 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Akron Washington County, CO 1420 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF It rather goes without saying that there are not too many spots with decent elevation out on the plains! So it is always nice to find a hill to take advantage of. Just west of Akron, the Akron Sub and US-34 converge right at a nice hill and the tracks run through a cut. Standing on the north side of the cut here, there is a nice view of this Z-Train as it continues east on green signals. At this point, we are too far east to even see mountains to the west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106586 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Akron Washington County, CO 1248 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF A BNSF eastbound Z-Train, which departed Denver earlier in the morning, makes its way across the open plains of eastern Colorado. We are just east of Akron, CO and a little Sepia tone seemed appropriate for this shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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