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 76 (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 104 (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. Photo ID: 112161 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A trio of units lead an eastbound BNSF oil train. The train arrived Rocky roughly 12 hours ago. It was tied down and the train has been waiting for a fresh crew since then. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112151 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 89 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The paint on this AC4400CW has definitely seen better days! Most likely, there was a fire on the long hood of the unit at some point, scorching the paint. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112150 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest is typically configured in a 3x2 setup. However, this instance of the train is significantly shorter than most, so BNSF apparently decided to run it with five units all on the point. The train tied down in the siding at Rocky about six hours ago, and it is waiting for a crew to come out of Denver and take it the rest of the way into town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112122 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 99 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As frequently happens, BNSF's Provo-Denver is currently tied down on the siding at Rocky, awaiting a recrew and a spot in the yard. Spring is refusing to fully kick in, as a bit of snow powders the area. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112119 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Nolan Tunnels Carbon County, UT 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Canadian Pacific, BNSF CP 8804 is about to disappear into Nolan Tunnel on Main 1. The unit is putting in some power sharing time on BNSF, currently serving on a westbound coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112118 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lynn to Kyune Carbon County, UT 124 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) Canadian Pacific, BNSF A Canadian Pacific ES44AC is the final DPU on a westbound loaded coal train, the front half of which has passed through Nolan Tunnel on Main 1. I actually got a shot of this same CP unit just two days earlier in Colorado on the Provo-Denver. Looks like it go to Denver and was immediately added to this coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112117 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lynn to Kyune Carbon County, UT 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF BNSF's loaded coal train, headed for the Valmy Power Plant in Nevada, is approaching the Nolan Tunnels on Soldier Summit. Upon reaching Provo, the BNSF crew will get off the train and a UP crew will take over for the trip to Nevada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112116 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lynn to Kyune Carbon County, UT 113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF A westbound BNSF coal load is taking on the 2% grade of Soldier Summit on Main 1. The train loaded in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and is now making its way west across the former-Rio Grande. It is ultimately headed for the Valmy Power Plant in Nevada. The two coal-fired generating units at the plant are scheduled to be decommissioned in 2025, so this coal train is likely near the end of its life. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112094 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, UT 80 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF A string of six BNSF units sit on one of the yard tracks at the transload facility at Wash. Three of the units will run around to the east end of a loaded oil train for the trip back east toward Denver and beyond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112038 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Thompson Springs, UT 86 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF At the grade crossing in Thompson Springs, a westbound BNSF oil train blasts through town at track speed, having just made it up and over the 1% grade of Thompson Hill. The train will now enjoy a downhill grade of around 0.7% in to Green River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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