Photo ID: 103577 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 140 Hillrose, CO 1602 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF In the last rays of the setting sun, an eastbound coal empty turns off the main track and into the siding at Hillrose. A westbound grain train sits on the main track. When the coal train clears, the grain train will continue. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103576 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 140 Hillrose, CO 1978 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF This shot caught my eye as I was watching this westbound coal empty heading into the siding at Hillrose. With the change off Daylight Savings Time the night before, the sun does set much earlier, but you can get some fantastic light right before sunset! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103575 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 1659 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF After meeting a westbound grain train at Hillrose, this coal empty heads toward Union, CO where it will receive a track warrant and continue on Union Pacific track to Sterling. There, it will turn north on the BNSF Angora Sub into Nebraska toward the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103574 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 2187 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF There is an explosion of light from behind the clouds along the western horizon as the sun gets closer to setting. In the foreground, a coal empty proceeds east out of the siding at Hillrose. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103573 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 1670 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Less than twenty minutes before sunset, the sun has come out from behind the clouds and an eastbound coal empty throttles up to leave the siding of North Hillrose to continue on to Sterling. The grain train it just met sits on the main, a pair of C44-9Ws are DPU'd on the end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103572 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 141 Hillrose, CO 1947 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF At the east switch of Hillrose, a westbound unit grain train proceeds on a yellow signal. The "earth worm" (as these unit grain trains are often referred to) is will stop on the main at Hillrose to meet two eastbounds. One eastbound is a coal empty on the siding and the second is an empty just south of the siding, holding the main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103551 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 23, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 522 Brighton, CO 1606 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Fall colors are pretty well in full swing down at the lower altitudes on the plains. The Edgemont to Denver manifest is just east of Barr running on clear signals headed back toward town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103550 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 23, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tonville Lochbuie, CO 1706 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF There is a nice lake, which is somewhat difficult to shoot, at the west switch of Tonville on the Brush sub. An Edgemont to Denver manifest heads for the signal alongside the lake. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103549 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 23, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 527 Brighton, CO 1903 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF After meeting two eastbound coal empties at Barr, this westbound load is coming off the siding and headed toward town. The overpasses in the distance include E-470 (closest), an off-ramp and Buckley Road. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103548 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 23, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 529 Brighton, CO 1740 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A westbound loaded coal train makes its way down the Brush Sub between Barr and Irondale. The overpass in the background is 120th Avenue. The tracks run parallel here to I-76. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103495 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 536 Commerce City, CO 1732 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF After summer showers threaten to move in from west as a BNSF coal load heads south on the Brush Sub toward the diamond at Sand Creek. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103494 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 534 Commerce City, CO 2040 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Ahh, how times have changed! There was a time not long ago when you could count on seeing GE units putting on a great show, kicking up a ton of thick black smoke. Well, here we see a coal load doing just that. But it is the SD70ACe that is spitting out the black stuff! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103235 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 27, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 515 Lochbuie, CO 2070 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak, BNSF A pair of C44-9Ws lead up a nine-hour-late California Zephyr about 30 miles northeast of Denver along I-76. The train is running on clear signals on the approach to Tonville. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103234 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 27, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 518 Lochbuie, CO 2045 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Denver, CO to Edgemont, SD manifest is pulling into siding at Tonville. Here, the train will wait for about 45 minutes for a very late westbound California Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103233 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 27, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 524 (East Barr) Brighton, CO 1772 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A BNSF local is heading toward the Oil Refinery plant in Commerce City. The train is being led by a nicely painted GP38 and a GP40M. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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