Photo ID: 103681 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 21, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 8 Denver, CO 2476 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Just south of the old Gates Rubber plant, a southbound BNSF coal load is moving quickly along on Main 1. Coal empties awaiting new crews sit on both Mains 2 and 3. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103658 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 15, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 35 Castle Rock, CO 2505 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF The symmetry of a Unit Grain train is one of the things that makes it a lot of fun to shoot! With the sun finally coming out from behind the clouds, this grain empty passes south past milepost 35.40 on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103657 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 15, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 35 Castle Rock, CO 2679 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF A southbound "Earthworm" is heading south along I-25 just south of Castle Rock. I caught two trains on the Joint Line on this day and, to my amazement, neither was a coal train! Crazy how much Castle Rock has grown in the past decade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103656 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 15, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 33 Castle Rock, CO 2342 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF, NS The sun is playing hide and seek behind the clouds as BNSF's Denver, CO to Amarillo, TX manifest comes around the curve south of Castle Rock. The train had some interesting power with a pair of Norfolk Southern units on the point. The second unit was (obviously) Conrail, but is now on Norfolk Southern's roster! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103655 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 15, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 28 Castle Rock, CO 2082 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF, NS A BNSF southbound without a BNSF unit in sight. Heck, there's not even a unit from a western railroad in sight! BNSF's Denver, CO to Amarillo, TX is making good time on the approach to Castle Rock. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103652 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 22 Lafayette, CO 2225 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A pair of geeps (a GP38-2 and a GP60) sit on a bridge over Coal Creek in Lafayette. The Longmont Switch is stopped while the brakeman aligns a switch behind the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103651 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 22 Lafayette, CO 2028 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A brakeman working on the Longmont Switch is on the ground standing by at a switch. The caboose (now referred to as "shoving platform") is on the branch while the Switch picks up a few cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103650 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 22 Lafayette, CO 2346 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Longmont Switch back over none other than Coal Creek as it switches out some cars at the north end of the Lafayette branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103649 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 16 Broomfield, CO 2566 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Longmont Switch has just crossed over US-287 in Broomfield and is backing down the Lafayette branch. This local used to run at night, but has been running in the daylight for nearly a year. While I had caught it a few times in the Summer, this is the first time I've seen it on the branch in Winter! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103638 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 18, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 10 Westminster, CO 2717 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF When I first went to Helper, UT in 1999, I saw nine Rio Grande SD40T-2's cut into the middle of a coal train as swing helpers for the climb up to Soldier Summit. The sound was amazing. It's great to see that 11 years later, the Dash-2 series is still in extremely wide use, even if it technically on a local (the Longmont Turn). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103637 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 18, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Westminster Fill Westminster, CO 2187 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF As much as I love Cascade Green, I almost wish the lead unit here had been in the Heritage scheme just so it matched the other three SD40-2's in the set. However, I'm not complaining as the sight and sound of four EMD 645 engines running was beautiful! If you'd like to hear, I recorded a brief clip and posted it along with this shot. Click the link above. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103636 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 18, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 17 Broomfield, CO 2160 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The power on BNSF's Longmont Turn on this day is truly fantastic! A quartet of SD40-2's climb up the grade into Broomfield, pulling at 58 cars at milepost 17. As great as it was to watch, it was even more fantastic to listen too! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103633 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 5, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 532 Brighton, CO 2427 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Despite a very cloudy sky on this evening, there was a nice break in the clouds as the Hudson Turn heads west toward Denver. A nice shot to close out the day... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103632 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 5, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 532 Brighton, CO 2222 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The Hudson Turn, carrying a string of tanks, heads back west toward Denver in between Barr and Irondale. The train will meet a Denver-Edgemont manifest that is waiting in the siding at Irondale. I had wanted to get some shots of the manifest from this overpass (as it was led by a trio of SD60M's), but alas I was unable to. The brakes on the fifth car back on the Hudson Turn are sticking! The train stopped to inspect just east of Irondale, blocking the Denver-Edgemont. By the time the Hudson Turn moved out of the way, the manifest was held for a Z-Train and the sun set with it sitting at Irondale. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103631 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 5, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 534 (Irondale) Brighton, CO 2877 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Even though the lighting is horrible here, I included the shot because I was intrigued by the nose of this SD60M. For whatever reason, the white face is gone and instead it is a green face! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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