Photo ID: 105164 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 3, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Strasburg Strasburg, CO 1552 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF As the push to move from coal to oil and natural gas continues, long unit trains of hoppers are slowly being replaced by long unit trains of tank cars. That's good news for some lines out there, one of which is the UP Limon Sub. Other than a daily freight and a few locals, the Limon Sub is primarily supplied by coal trains. Fortunately, oil trains will hopefully help to bring traffic to a line that is seeing a decrease in coal. Here, an empty oil train heads west through Strasburg, about 35 miles east of Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105162 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 3, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Byers Byers, CO 1578 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF BNSF train on the Limon Sub? No, this UP oil train is just borrowing some BNSF power for the journey. The train original in St James, LA and is headed for Carr, CO where it will be loaded and return back to Louisiana. The train is crossing over the West Bijou Creek (west of Byers, CO) over a good looking truss bridge. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105150 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 1978 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A pair of SD40-2s starts pulling on a long string of double stacks out of the loading area at Rennicks. These containers are quite possibly bound for Chicago on the highest priority train BNSF runs out of Denver, the ZDENCHI. If that is the case, they will see an early morning departure the following day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105148 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 1782 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Located on the east side of UP's North Yard in BNSF's Rennicks Yard. This yard represents BNSF's intermodal presence in Denver (which, admittedly, isn't much). BNSF runs an intermodal train between Denver and Tacoma, WA and one between Denver and Chicago, IL. Thus, the two tracks located at Rennicks are sufficient to get the job done! Here, a pair of SD40-2s prepare to pull a string of double stack containers south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105144 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1783 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's "Longmont Switch" has completed its work at Broomfield and is now on its way back to Longmont. The train just passed underneath the Northwest Parkway and is approaching the south end of Louisville. Note that there is actually a caboose (now referred to as a "shoving platform") on the tail end of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105143 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Westminster Fill Westminster, CO 1732 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This northbound coal empty has come to a stop, the end DPUs sitting on the Westminster Fill. The train will likely be meeting a southbound at the siding of Broomfield. However, Broomfield has two grade crossing and, as such, northbounds will usually hold near Church Ranch Lake until the dispatcher tell them to pull in to the clear when the southbound is close enough. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105142 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wesminster Westminster, CO 2300 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF For about a decade, the SD70MAC reigned king on BNSF coal trains. Today, it is somewhat rare to find a pair lashed up together! However, that was the case on a beautiful Thursday afternoon as this pair of SD70MACs bring up the rear of a northbound coal empty. Longs Peak makes for a great backdrop as the train hustles across Wadsworth Blvd in Westminster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105141 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wesminster Westminster, CO 1666 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF To alleviate some congestion on the Brush and Angora Subs, BNSF will frequently send a few coal empties north on the Front Range Sub. One such example is this empty, which is headed for a mine in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Here, the train is passing underneath 92nd Avenue in Westminster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105140 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1699 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF It's pretty great that in 2015, twenty years after the BN / ATSF merger, you can still find C44-9Ws running around in the first (official) BNSF paint scheme. The Heritage scheme didn't last long before being ousted by the Heritage 2 scheme. The Heritage scheme greatly resembled the paint scheme of the Great Northern. The Great Northern used a goat on their herald and, it is for this reason, that these units are often referred to as "Goat Boats". The "boat" portion coming from an old designation of 1st and 2nd generation GE units as "U-Boats". Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105139 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1708 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF On the last day of March, a northbound manifest (most likely headed for Laurel, MT) passes through Broomfield on the main track. With the switches at both ends aligned for the main and no train to meet, the train rolled through town at track speed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105138 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Hudson Hudson, CO 2090 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF When this coal load derailed at the west switch of Hudson, it broke apart in to three pieces. Here, the front third (to the right) stayed on the tracks. The middle third can be seen back a bit. The last few cars on that section derailed, but stayed upright. The final section of the train had the most cars derail (and about 20 of them fell on their side). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105137 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Hudson Hudson, CO 2340 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 8802 was the lead unit on this westbound coal load that derailed at the west end of Hudson. Here, a fresh crew has arrived to assist in the cleanup operation. Later in the afternoon, the crew would take the front portion of the train that didn't derail down to the siding of Tonville. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105136 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Hudson Hudson, CO 2066 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Coal mixes with dirt, which mixes with steel a wood, among the wreckage of a derail coal train at the west switch of Hudson. The derailment was causing a lot of cars on I-76 to slow down and check out the scene. Local PD was patrolling the shoulder, keeping cars from stopping on the shoulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105135 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Hudson Hudson, CO 2032 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Cars lay on their sides...or in some cases, are piled on top of one another...after a westbound coal train derailed at the west end of Hudson. The road in the foreground is I-76. The derailment took place on the west edge of Hudson, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105134 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 22, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Hudson, CO 2227 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF When this BNSF coal train derailed, cars "accordioned" (as they often do in derailments), resulting in cars piled on top of cars and some of the cars perpendicular to the track. Or, to where the track was! Must have been an amazing site to see when this happened. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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