Photo ID: 109536 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed La Salle (8,800ft) La Salle, CO 277 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific In the roughly 25 years of taking train pictures, I have managed to shoot 150 (as of the date of this photo) of the over 1,400 SD70Ms that UP has on the roster. SD70Ms actually are not all that common in Colorado, with AC traction motor units being fall more common. Anyway, a Phase II SD70M, UP 3836, sits along in the north end of the yard in La Salle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109535 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eaton (MP 58.8) Eaton, CO 261 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific One of my personal favorite units of all time is EMD's SD70M. When first released, UP put in the largest single order (to that date) with 1,000 units. They followed that up over 400 additional orders. UP 4059 is one such unit, sitting at Eaton off the main track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109534 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eaton (MP 58.8) Eaton, CO 260 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Kansas City Southern This is a paint scheme that I am definitely going to miss! Granted, Kansas City Southern units don't make it to Colorado particularly often, but when they do, they are great to see. With the merger of CP and KCS, creating CPKC, both the Canadian Pacific and KCS paint schemes will be replaced by a new scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109533 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eaton (MP 58.8) Eaton, CO 270 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern A Canadian Pacific ES44AC and a Kansas City Southern SD70ACe lead a northbound UP coal empty by some new industries in Eaton. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109532 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Evans (MP 48.3) Evans, CO 287 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific The South Platte River has receded considerably since May and June when it was nearly bursting at the banks! That was after near-record rainfall in the Spring. With things drying out the snow long since melted, the waters have decreased as a northbound coal empty crosses alongside US-85 just north of La Salle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109531 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 256 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific Visitors far from home lead a coal empty north on the UP Greeley Sub at Platteville, about 35 miles north of Denver. Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merged earlier this year, creating CPKC (Canadian Pacific Kansas City), so it is not too surprising that the leased power has a unit from each road represented. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109530 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W034 (South Platteville) Platteville, CO 251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific A northbound coal empty is moving at track speed at the south end of Platteville, meeting a southbound sitting in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109529 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Platteville (8,299ft) Platteville, CO 244 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A southbound manifest sits in the siding at Platteville, waiting for a northbound. An even split of three GEs and three EMDs are on the point of the train. However, the last two SD70Ms are not loading. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109528 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North of Brighton Weld County, CO 263 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern A pair of CPKC units (one CP, one KCS) are quite a ways from home as they lead a coal empty north on the Greeley Sub. The train is slowing for the grade crossing at MP 29.99 (County Road 22). A previous train reported that the main lights and gates were working, but the lights on one of the gates were broken off and hanging down. Consequently, an "XH" order was placed on the crossing. This requires all trains to slow to ensure no cars are going through the crossing when they shouldn't. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109527 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brighton (8,203ft) Brighton, CO 277 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A local picks up a string of hoppers from an industry. Unfortunately, due to the location of the switch and the length of the train, the north switch at Brighton is blocked, preventing the coal empty on the siding from being able to continue north. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109526 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brighton (8,203ft) Brighton, CO 263 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific This coal empty was holding south of the siding of Brighton so as not to block grade crossing through town. When the southbound it was meeting showed up, the train pulled in to the siding. However, nobody informed the crew that the southbound is a local that is blocking the north end of the siding, preventing the coal empty from leaving! So the crossing in Brighton wound up blocked for over 30 minutes anyway. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109525 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brighton (8,203ft) Brighton, CO 252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific A CP ES44AC and a KCS SD70ACe lead a northbound coal empty through the siding at Brighton, passing alongside a few yard tracks that currently lay empty. These hoppers were pulled from Jansen, CO on the Raton Sub near Trinidad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109524 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brighton (8,203ft) Brighton, CO 258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A pair of SD70Ms serve as the power on a local that originated from La Salle earlier in the day. It is now stopped on the main at Brighton has the string of covered hoppers to the left need to be picked up by the local. The cars behind the power will be spotted in their place. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109404 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 357 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A southbound auto and intermodal mixed train crosses Sand Creek on UP's Greeley Sub. The train is crossing the BNSF Brush Sub right underneath (the extremely busy) I-270. The track above the UP power is BNSF's Brush Sub. Above that is a switching lead that BNSF can use to switch cars at the Suncor Oil Refinery. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109403 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A very short southbound UP intermodal train, consisting of two engines and 11 intermodal cars, pulls on to the inbound track at Sand Creek Jct in Commerce City. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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