Photo ID: 106613 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1316 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF UP's has maintenance ongoing on the Moffat until 12:30-1:00pm at the moment. That has meant that, once that time hits, there tends to be a flood of westbound released out of Denver. BNSF's Denver to Provo manifest is approaching the grade crossing at Blue Mountain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106602 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1193 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This picture is a little bit like the book game "Where's Waldo"! Can you spot the train is the scene? A westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest is holding on the main at Leyden. You can see his headlight toward the lower-left quadrant of the image. The train is waiting for the Zephyr to run around it through the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106599 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tonville Lochbuie, CO 1631 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The Brush Sub dispatcher has done a great job keeping this Q-Train running on clear signals ever since leaving New Hillrose, north of Brush. Here, the three GE units on the head end knock down the signal at West Tonville. The west switch is located nearly a small pond that helps to offer a nice foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106598 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Keensburg Curve Weld County, CO 1862 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF On this first day of fall, the further west I travelled back toward Denver, the thicker the cloud coverage got. When I setup for this shot, the scene was bathed in great lightning. Alas, a cloud blew in and added shade to the scene a mere 30 seconds prior to the arrival of the train! Ah well...the curve at Keensburg still looks mighty fine, even in the shade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106597 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wiggins Wiggins, CO 1723 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF This particular Q-Train that BNSF runs on the Brush Sub is something of a "potpourri" train. The makeup of the train is one of the more interesting ones I've seen. Box cars, covered hoppers, open hoppers, tank cars, centerbeam flats, TOFCs, and COFCs...all found on the same train! Most of the time, intermodal is kept separate from other manifest traffic. Not the case on this Alliance, TX-bound train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106596 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wiggins Wiggins, CO 1883 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Evidence of some of the maintenance that BNSF has sunk in to the Brush Sub is visible lying alongside the right-of-way in this shot. Piles of old wood ties and tie plates are waiting to be picked up by a scrap train at Wiggins. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106595 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Brush Morgan County, CO 1796 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Hard to believe that the GE "Evolution Series" engine (in all its various forms) has been around for nearly 15 years now. And man has it proven to be a popular model! GE has produced of 4,000 units just for BNSF and UP alone! More than 7,000 units have been produced for all North American railroads combined. Here, an ES44C4 leads a westbound Q-Train in between Brush and Fort Morgan. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106594 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Brush Morgan County, CO 1829 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF If you are a fan of corn on the cob, there is a chance that the last corn you ate came from Colorado! This westbound Q-Train is passing by a corn field in between Brush, CO and Fort Morgan, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106593 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 1728 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Several new trains have appeared on in Colorado in the past year or so. BNSF has started some new intermodal service between the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Coast. There is also a Q-Train also runs to Alliance, TX on the Brush Sub. Here, that Q-Train is just coming in to the town of Brush. The Brush Sub will converge with the Akron Sub (although it will remain the Brush Sub) here in Brush. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106592 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Otis Otis, CO 1440 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF Like virtually all plains towns in the United States, the small town of Otis has a water tower standing tall over the town, the town's name proudly painted on the tower. This BNSF stack train is crossing one of the two grade crossing in the town as it journeys east toward its destination of Omaha, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106591 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Otis Otis, CO 1802 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF An eastbound stack train approaches the Washington Street grade crossing in the small plains town of Otis, CO. This train originated in Tacoma, WA five days earlier and is headed for Omaha, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106590 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Yuma Yuma County, CO 1376 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF This will be the end of the chase of this Denver to Chicago Z-Train on this particular day. Commitments back home later in the day, mixed with the time it'll take to get back home (with a little chasing along the way) means this is the eastern-most point of this trip. The Z-Train approaches a clear signal at the west end of the siding of Yuma. We are about 40 miles west of the Colorado-Nebraska border here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106589 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Yuma Yuma County, CO 1387 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF There is a great bridge just west of Yuma, CO in which US-34 crosses over the tracks. It offers a nice opportunity to get some elevated shots of both eastbounds and westbounds. Here, an eastbound Z-Train is moving at track speed (around 60 MPH) as it approaches a clear signal at West Yuma. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106588 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Yuma Yuma County, CO 1460 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF Even though the plains are indeed quite flat, you might find it curious that this eastbound Z-Train has only two units. The reason being that, despite this train being loaded with containers (up front) and trailers (toward the back), it is actually almost entirely empty. Denver tends to be a net receiver of goods, so intermodal trains come to Denver loaded, but frequently end up leaving largely empty. That fact is reflected in the trains symbol. This is the ZDENCHI7-22. The "7" in the symbol indicates this train is an extension off another high priority train. If this was a loaded train, it would have the symbol ZDENCHI9-22. The "9" in the symbol (on Z-Trains) indicates the train 1st section, critical arrival. There are no higher-priority trains on the system than "Z9" trains. Still, the dispatcher will keep this "Z7" rolling over most other trains on the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106587 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Akron Washington County, CO 1454 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) BNSF It rather goes without saying that there are not too many spots with decent elevation out on the plains! So it is always nice to find a hill to take advantage of. Just west of Akron, the Akron Sub and US-34 converge right at a nice hill and the tracks run through a cut. Standing on the north side of the cut here, there is a nice view of this Z-Train as it continues east on green signals. At this point, we are too far east to even see mountains to the west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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