Photo ID: 104875 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1649 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Notice anything special about this Warbonnet? How about the fact that there isn't a "BNSF" patch visible anywhere on the engineer's side! Not sure why there isn't one, but I'm not complaining about a Warbonnet that looks to be "pure Santa Fe" in 2014, 19 years after the creation of BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104874 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1640 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF You want to talk about and interesting power combination on an interesting train! A Warbonnet matched up with a Canadian Nations C40-8M (a cowl unit), sitting together on a "blade train" (windmill blades) in the siding at North Yard. A Great Western crew just brought this train from the Vestas plant in Windsor, CO and tied it down here on the siding at North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104873 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berthoud Berthoud, CO 1629 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF I have no problem admitting that the SD40-2 (and its variants...such as the SD40T-2, of course!) is my favorite engine of all time. I doubt that will every change. So, when there is a train (even if it is a local) that is running with a solid set of SD40-2s, it makes me happy! The SD40-2 is about 40 years old now and it isn't going to be around forever. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104872 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berthoud Berthoud, CO 2148 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF 2014 or 1994? This southbound local has a trio of SD40-2s for power. The lead unit has the "white face" that Burlington Northern developed to try to increase visibility to oncoming trains. You may recall that they also developed an "orange face" as well that was applied to some GP50s. So if you use your imagination, maybe that second BNSF SD40-2 is just an orange face GP50! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104871 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Boulder, CO 1743 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF It has been seven years since I worked in Boulder, so it is good to swing through town once in awhile and get a shot of train. The flat irons looks good in the background as this coal empty approaches 55th Street along the Diagonal Highway on the north side of Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104870 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 1708 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just north of milepost 12, along Church Ranch Lake, a northbound coal empty picks up some speed as it approaches a work zone. The bridge that carries US-36 over the tracks in Westminster is being rebuilt, requiring a Form B to protect the construction workers. Everyone is in the clear here and the empty is now headed for Broomfield where it will run through the siding and meet a southbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104869 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1679 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF While I do not personally care for the short days of winter, I do like the quality of light generated by the low sun in the morning and the evening. This southbound Cheyenne-Denver manifest, with power representing three different decades, heads south on the main at Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104868 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1777 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) NREX, BNSF In the last few years, Union Pacific retired some of its older power such as C40-8's and SD60's. Frequently when old power is retired by a Class 1, it either winds up on a smaller railroad, or it is picked up by a leasing company. Such is the case here. This SD60 was picked up by National Railway Equipment Leasing and is currently putting in hours on BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104867 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield (8,976ft) Broomfield, CO 1708 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Longs Peak stands tall in glorious December morning light as a southbound manifest rolls down the main at Broomfield. The train just received a track warrant between the north and south ends of Broomfield. It will hold the main to meet two northbound coal empties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104864 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 30, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 2138 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A northbound BNSF manifest approaches the Northwest Parkway underpass in Broomfield, not far south of Louisville. The apartment and condo complex in the background is very new. Ten years ago, none of that had been built and that area was occupied by an empty field. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104863 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 30, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1617 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Being a rather cold and gloomy day, black and white felt appropriate for this shot as a northbound BNSF manifest passes by a lone tree near recently constructed apartments and condos. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104862 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 30, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wesminster Westminster, CO 1725 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) CSX, BNSF Far from home, this CSX C40-8W is putting in some power sharing miles as it heads north on BNSF's Front Range Sub. This is the first C40-8W that I've seen (well, at least shot) in nearly six years. Highlighting the fact that older power is being utilized as much as possible by railroads right now. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104861 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 30, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wesminster Westminster, CO 1653 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This northbound manifest sports a very colorful consist as it charges north at track speed through Westminster. The train is just about to pass underneath 92nd Avenue in Westminster. With no southbounds nearby, the train has a warrant to Longs Peak north of Longmont! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104860 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 30, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 1820 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This northbound BNSF manifest is just starting its journey on recently laid tracks just north of Utah Junction. In the background, you can see a new commuter rail bridge which is nearing construction. The commuter rail will serve the "Gold Line", running from Union Station in Denver out to Arvada and Wheat Ridge northwest of Denver. The track is also passing underneath UP's North Yard Bypass tracks (primarily used by coal trains). Up and to the right, you can see UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub mainline and North Yard siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104447 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 19, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 1847 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Other than the still-flowing Boulder creek washout in Boulder, this was the most severe example of a washout I found along the BNSF Front Range Sub after the recent flooding. (Granted, this is actually the Lyons branch near milepost 39). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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