Photo ID: 112266 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A pretty decent looking warbonnet, particularly for 2025, sits amongst a sea of orange, waiting for its next assignment. This unit, BNSF 4706, is one of the few that actually received the warbonnet scheme with "BNSF" lettering after the merger, prior to the original Heritage scheme being decided upon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112265 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 3 (MP 25.8, 369 ft) Arvada, CO 103 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As this westbound oil empty exits Tunnel 3, the clouds were nice and gave way to a bit of sunlight on the head end of the train as it works to traverse through the Tunnel District. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112264 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 99 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 6386 passes by a tramper and a regulator that are tied down in the house track at Plain. These guys have been working on the main in various locations between Rocky and Crescent recently. For a few days, they were tied down on the bottom end of the Rocky Spur. The oil empty passing by is headed for the oil transload facility at Wash, UT to load up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112263 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 91 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After getting stuck in the siding at Rocky for about an hour to wait on maintenance working on the track, this BNSF oil empty finally got the green signal to continue west. Here, the train is headed west on the main at Plain. After loading, the train will return east in a 3x3 configuration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112235 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A BNSF coal load climbs Big Ten Curve, headed west on the Moffat. The train loaded in the Powder River in Wyoming, and is headed for the Valmy Power Plant in Nevada. This coal train's days are actually likely limited. Like so many other power plants, the Valmy station is transitioning to natural gas. The coal-burning stations are slated for retirement by the end of 2025. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112234 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 93 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Three units lead this westbound BNSF coal load on the main at Rocky. A few hours ago, the ground was entirely covered in snow. But rapidly rising temperatures, now around 38°F, is resulting in the rapid melting of the snow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112233 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 81 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I really like the contrasting foliage all visible right here in a single scene. As a loaded BNSF coal train heads west through Barbara's Gulch, the foliage in the gulch is covered in snow. Meanwhile, warming temperatures has melted most of the snow outside of the gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112195 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos Junction Denver, CO 80 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A GP39-3 and a GP39-2, both of Santa Fe heritage, are working at Rennicks this morning. Rennicks is BNSF's intermodal facility in Denver. yard job has come to a stop, and after a switch being thrown at the back of the long string of cars, the job will make a reverse move back into Rennicks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112191 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A BNSF yard job, hauling a long string of JB Hunt double stacks, pulls across UP's Belt Line on the Front Range Sub. After crossing through the CTC limits across the diamond, the head end of the yard job is now in Restricted Limits. No track warrant needed for this switching. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112190 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 87 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Three units, including a UP unit, pull four covered hoppers. Meanwhile, four units, including another UP unit, sit nearby. A yard job is currently idle toward the right. Note the two guys walking the yard as well, helping switch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112189 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF An overview of BNSF's 31st Street Yard in Denver. A couple of trainset looks to be switching around, as well as a yard job working. A BNSF coal train sits tied down on Coal 1, waiting for a recrew. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112188 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Considering how time marches on and things continue to change, I always figure it is a good idea to get shots of some of the Denver rail infrastructure. 20 years from now, this could all be apartments... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112186 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 77 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF An RTD N-Line commuter rail train slowly descends toward Union Station, passing by BNSF's engine facility. An NS unit and two cascade green units break up the sea on orange. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112163 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 107 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This is one of the more interesting covered hoppers you might come across. It looks like a box car that was modified to be a covered hopper. Regardless, on this particular day, it is serving as a buffer car between the head end power and the loaded oil train behind it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112162 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 105 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Whenever a train is tied down in a siding along the mainline, a derail is always set. As you can see here, a derail does exactly what it sounds like. It is intentionally causes the train to derail. Should something fail, resulting in the train rolling without a crew, it will derail here, on the siding, before it can roll out onto the main, possibly striking another train, or derailing in a populated area. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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