Photo ID: 112538 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed The Sag Douglas County, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF After the coal load ahead got a signal to continue south into the single track territory of the Joint Line south of Palmer Lake, this CN-led train train is now sitting in The Sag, waiting for its turn to continue south. After several hours of thunderstorms, there was a 10 minute break in the clouds, allowing for some fantastic sunlight to break through. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112537 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed The Sag Douglas County, CO 54 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Two units lead a northbound Q-Train on Main 2 a few miles north of Palmer Lake. You can see the train is passing an intermediate signal. The train is currently operating under a track warrant as Main 2 of the Joint Line has not had CTC added to it like Main 1 has. The Boeing 737 fuselage is a nice find on the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112536 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed The Sag Douglas County, CO 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF A BNSF Q-Train is heading northbound on Main 2, meeting a southound coal train that is wrapped around The Sag on Main 1. The Q-Train has a Boeing 737 fuselage, a string of double stacks, and some general manifest freight on the train. Most likely, this train is headed to Portland or Seattle. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112535 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed The Sag Douglas County, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF A southbound BNSF coal load is stopped on Main 1 at The Sag between Greenland and Palmer Lake. It is waiting on the second of two northbound trains. There is a massive thunderstorm coming off from the Rockies and over Colorado Springs. You can see the north face of Pikes Peak in the distance to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112534 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Greenland Douglas County, CO 60 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF CN 3321 is currently facing a red intermediate signal at MP 45.8. There is a coal train ahead that is currently stopped in The Sag, waiting for two northbounds. As such, the crew has the headlight on dim, and is patiently waiting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112533 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed The Sag Douglas County, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF This southbound BNSF coal train is currently stopped in "The Sag", just north of Palmer Lake. Southbound loads often stop here to cool their traction motors and/or wait on northbounds. It was here that the Santa Fe main once went over the Rio Grande main. With the creation of the Joint Line, Main 1 now zig-zags a bit, and heads down a grade briefly, hence the "sag". Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112532 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Larkspur Larkspur, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF As a fairly significant summer thunderstorm rolls east, a CN-led, BNSF grain train crosses East Plum Creek, Spruce Mountain Road, and Fox Farm Road on the old Santa Fe bridge, which still sports a faded Santa Fe label and herald. Shots from the north side of the bridge are hard to get due to lighting, but the overcast skies made it possible on this June 1st. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112531 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sedalia to Orsa Douglas County, CO 53 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF CN 3321, an AC44C6M (rebuild) crosses over East Plum Creek on the bridge at MP 26.60 on Main 1 on the Joint Line. The train is following a coal load, and is actually making better time than the coal load, so the grain train will make a few stops at (red) intermediate signals as it continues south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112530 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sedalia Sedalia, CO 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Several storm clouds move toward the plains from the Rockies at 12:30pm as a southbound BNSF coal train crosses Clay Street in Sedalia on Main 1. These cloud build ups are very normal for summer afternoons along the Front Range in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112529 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sedalia Sedalia, CO 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF On the north edge of Sedalia, a BNSF coal load headed for Texas from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming snakes its way through several S-Curves. With more and more power plants in the country switching away from coal, how much longer will coal dominate the Joint Line? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112528 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blakeland Douglas County, CO 57 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF A southbound BNSF coal load starts the real grind up toward Palmer Lake as the tracks increase around 1.2% and will remain around that for the trip to the top of hill. Longs Peak is visible in the background, as some clouds start to move toward the plains from the mountains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112527 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Evans Ave Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF This unit grain train originated in North Dakota on May 27th and is making its way south and west toward Barstow, CA. A nice little bonus is a Canadian National leader. Here, at the Evans Ave RTD station, the train is tied down and awaiting a crew that is currently enroute. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112526 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer While both the Mountaineer and the Zephyr load at Union Station, the two trains take very different routes initially out of Denver. The Zephyr uses the BNSF Buck Lead out of Union Station, running to Prospect Jct and the Moffat alongside North Yard. The Rocky Mountaineer has now contract with BNSF, so the RM has to run northeast through UP's 36th Street Yard and across the Belt to the Moffat. Here, RMRX 8020 leads the train on Bypass 2 at Pecos, having completed the run across the Belt. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112525 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broadway to Pecos Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Rocky Mountaineer UP's North Yard, CO to Green River, WY manifest sits on the Belt Lead to the right as the morning Rocky Mountaineer heads west on Bypass 2 to the left. Units on both trains are kicking up quite a bit of visible exhaust this morning! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112524 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak With the increased costs of transporting private passenger cars on Amtrak trains, it has become far less common for private cars to appear on the end of the Zephyr. However, on this evening, private cars "Colonial Crafts" and "NYC-3", the first in a Pennsylvania railroad scheme, and the second in a New York Central scheme, ride along on the back of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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