Photo ID: 110592 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 319 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific Wanted to grab a quick roster shot of UP 6294 specifically because, under that yellow paint scheme, you'd find scarlet and gray. Indeed, the AC4400CW started life as SP 241. This summer, the unit celebrates its 29th birthday, as it was originally delivered in June of 1995. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110591 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 337 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 7855 is slowing toward a stop on the Belt Industrial Lead. They do not have a route in to the yard yet, so the engineer will bring the train to a stop just east of Washington Street so as not to block any grade crossing while waiting to get in to North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110590 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 337 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific A southbound UP manifest is slowly climbing the grade west on the Belt Industrial Lead alongside some local industry tracks. In the background, the newest power stations (that burn natural gas) at Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110589 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Stock Yards Denver, CO 338 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The Belt Industrial Lead, which connects North Yard to 36th Street Yard and the Greeley Sub, also has quite a few connections to local industries along the way. You can see two tracks that curve north toward industries in the area. Meanwhile, UP's MGRNY (Manifest, Green River, WY to North Yard, CO) approaches on the main train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110588 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rolla (MP 10.6) Commerce City, CO 458 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP 5872 has recently been rebuilt by UP from an C44AC-CTE to a C44ACM (UP's designation). In the world of expensive Tier-4 compliant units from EMD and GE (Wabtec), most railroads are starting to focus money on rebuilds rather than new planes. After the rebuild, UP 5872 also got the latest UP paint scheme, moving the American flag from the long hood to the nose, and removing the wings from the front of the nose entirely. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110587 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rolla (MP 10.6) Commerce City, CO 443 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Just south of Rolla, a northbound UP manifest approaches the grade crossing at 96th Avenue. It appears that the yard crew at North Yard blocked the train quite nicely for its trip to Green River, WY. There, the train will likely be broken up (to some extent) before cars continue on to their final destinations. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110586 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Dupont (MP 8.2) Commerce City, CO 499 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The long days of summer are great for having plenty of daylight to try to find trains, but the sun resting almost directly straight up in the sky results in short shadows. Black and white, with a bit of a contrast bump, actually can be quite helpful. Note the Denver skyline in the distance and the Rocky Mountains even further off in the distance as a northbound UP manifest approaches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110585 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 16, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South Platte River Denver, CO 342 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP's MNYGR (Manifest, North Yard, CO to Green River, WY) departs from North Yard six days a week, typically departing right after the Zephyr and, when necessary, the Rocky Mountaineer have passed by. Here, the train is crossing over the South Platte River on the Belt Industrial Lead. The lead connects North Yard to the Greeley Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110576 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 411 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Just minutes after existing Eisele (Clay) heading geographically south above, this oil train has made the long 180° turn around Big Ten Loop and is now headed geographically north on the approach to the west switch of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110575 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 323 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943 and train depart the east end of Eisele (Clay) on a clear (green) signal on the journey east toward Denver and points beyond. The foliage is just about at peek colors, with a lot of vivid greens and yellows, despite the sun having descended behind the mountains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110574 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele to Plain (MP 21.8 to MP 24.0) Arvada, CO 388 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As the sun casts a pleasant ray of light from behind the clouds as it sets to the west, UP 1943 rolls slowly east on the head end of an eastbound unit oil train. If you look closely, you can see a pair of DPUs on the grade below Tunnel 1 to the right side of the picture. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110573 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 316 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943 leads a loaded eastbound oil train out of Tunnel 1, slowly descending down the 2% grade. UP runs loaded oil trains very slow, typically coming down from the Moffat at right around 15 MPH. This beautiful June evening is no different. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110572 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele to Plain (MP 21.8 to MP 24.0) Arvada, CO 350 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943 leads a pair of GEs eastbound on an oil train just west of Tunnel 1. It took about 90 minutes to get from East Portal to this spot, rolling slow as UP oil trains typically do. Alas, that meant the direct sunlight was gone, but there was still enough ambient light to capture the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110571 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 361 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The sun has already ducked behind the mountains as UP 1943, the unit painted in celebration of the US military, leads an eastbound oil train out of Plain and toward Tunnel 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110550 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 331 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific I do not have many shots of SD70M-2s, so it is great to pick up one more with this shot. The SD70M-2 was not widely popular, with only 331 being produced between 2005 and 2011. The majority of the units went to Canadian National and Norfolk Southen. None of those 331 units went to western railroads (UP, BNSF, etc). By comparison, over 2,000 SD70ACes have been produced and are still in the EMD catalog in 2024. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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