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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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The crew of the Limon Local goes on duty at 12:00 (noon) on Sunday afternoons. After arriving at North Yard and getting some things ready to go, the crew is on UP 6168, which will be the leader for the eastbound local. The train is waiting for the local at Stapleton, doubled over on two tracks. Today, an LTEX GP38-2 joins the train to be delivered at a rail park out near Bennett, CO.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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238 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Union Pacific has (or has had) a lot of C44-9Ws in long term storage around the system. UP definitely prefers AC powered units to DC powered units, so they have contracted with Wabtec to rebuild a lot of the older DC units into AC units. UP 9823 is a great example! It was originally CNW 8719, delivered in May 1994. It has now been rebuilt into a C44ACM.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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254 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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MRLX, Union Pacific
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A close up shot of MRLX 1659 sitting in North Yard. The car was originally built in 1950 by Pullman-Standard for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The C&O ordered 284 streamlined cars from Pullman-Standard in 1946 (later reduced to 185 cars), and this was part of that order. After the C&O, the car spent time on the rosters of the Seaboard Coast Line, Chicago & North Western, Southern Pacific, and Nacionales de Mexico, before landing on the roster of Mid America Rail Car Leasing. It is rumored that it is now headed for a museum in Illinois.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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MRLX, Union Pacific
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Earlier in the day, I got a shot of this Mid America Rail Car Leasing (MRLX) passenger car in North Yard. Later in the day, the sun had moved to the west side, so I decided to go back for some better shots. The car is sitting on Track 22, waiting to be taken to North Platte, NE, and eventually, a railroad museum in Illinois.
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Photo ID: 113067
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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Burnham Yard
Denver, CO
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260 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific, Rio Grande
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A good overview of what little remains of UP's (and, before that, Rio Grande's) Burnham Shops in Denver. This was taken near the south end of the yard, looking north toward the 8th Avenue Viaduct and the main engine maintenance facility. On Valentine's Day, 2016, Burnham was closed. Some shop personnel were offer transfers to North Platte, NE. Others were offered "golden parachutes" to retire. Still, others were just let go.
5-10 years from the date of this shot, this same perspective will likely show a brand new stadium for the Denver Broncos. It is said the stadium will include a retractable roof with the hopes of attracting the Super Bowl. The Broncos current stadium, Empower Field, which opened in 2001, is visible in this shot in the distance. Look for the orange and blue in the top-left quadrant of the shot.
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Photo ID: 113065
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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Burnham Yard
Denver, CO
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248 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific, Rio Grande
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The 8th Avenue viaduct was constructed well after the main engine maintenance facility at Burnham, so the viaduct had to curve around the south side of the building, only a few feet away. It sounds as though the Denver Broncos are going to get a new stadium build on these grounds, so it is likely that the 8th Avenue viaduct will be demolished. Time is also running out for the engine maintenance building as well. It is the only building (as of the taking of this picture) that hasn't started (or completed) demolition at Burnham.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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Burnham Yard
Denver, CO
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266 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific, Rio Grande
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This shot shows where Rio Grande main car maintenance facility was once located. The pit with weeds growing in it once had a transfer table to shuffle cars around. The building, some of which the rubble is still visible, is where Rio Grande took great care to maintenance the passenger cars on the Rio Grande Zephyr (along with many others) for years. Now, it slowly fades into history.
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