Photo ID: 113333 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W005 (Sand Creek Junction) Commerce City, CO 223 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific At Sand Creek Junction, the inbound and outbound tracks converge down to a single track that makes up the Greeley Sub mainline northbound. UP's MNYGR is entering the single track as it passes through the Suncor refinery. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113332 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W004 (Beltline Connection) Commerce City, CO 207 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific UP's MNYGR (Manifest from North Yard, CO to Green River, WY) is coming off the Belt Industrial Lead and headed north on the Greeley Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113330 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 634.5 (Sandown) Denver, CO 250 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific A Canadian National SD70M-2 and a C44-9W, both DC-traction motor units, lead a westbound UP coal empty on the Limon Sub at Sandown. The train is waiting for signals to continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113329 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 634.5 (Sandown) Denver, CO 261 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific At Sandown, a westbound UP coal empty sits on Main 1 at a red signal. A pair of Canadian National units is the power on the train this morning! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113325 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 229 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Three units led UP's MGRNY from Green River, WY to North Yard. The train came west on the Moffat at Pecos Crossover on Bypass 2 so it could back into the yard after the MNYGR departs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113324 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 222 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's MGRNY, which ran from Green River, WY to North Yard, CO arrived off the Greeley Sub and came across the Belt. But, instead of heading straight into North Yard, the train came across Bypass 2 and will wait for its counterpart, the MNYGR, to depart before backing into the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113323 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 136 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A pair of tampers work to ensure that the ballast is properly set, the ties are positions, and the rails are aligned and stabilized so that trains can run over the rails after new ties have been inserted under the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113322 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 130 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This machine is a continuous-action surfacing tamper. It lifts, lines, and tamps the track, as well as dynamically stabilizes the rails so that trains can safely run at track speed over the track. This is the final piece of equipment in the tie gang. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113321 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 130 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Here, we see a Union Pacific track tamper. It moves from tie-to-tie...every tie, regardless if it is new or not...grabs the tie and shakes it to ensure the ballast falls properly under and around the ties. The long pole/extension in front of the tamper ensure that the rails are aligned and in gauge. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113320 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 120 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This machine is a small tamper that is making sure that the new ties are positioned properly under the rails before they are spiked down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113319 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 168 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This tie plate inserter is setting out new tie plates on top of the new ties that have been installed just minutes earlier. Once the tie plates are in place, a spiker will come next and spike down the plates/ties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113318 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 129 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This Tie Extractor/Inserter (TE/IE) is currently working as an inserter. A crane has placed new ties along the right-of-way and the inserter is sliding the ties underneath the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113317 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 121 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A string of maintenance equipment works to replace the ties along the right-of-way west of Leyden. UP has laid new ballast and is now replacing thousands of ties on the Moffat over the course of the next few months. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113316 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In this overhead shot of the mainline west of Leyden at MP 14.5, you can clearly see the tie gang and the work they are doing. All of the ties you see that are perpendicular to the rails are new ties that are waiting to be installed beneath the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113315 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 146 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This is what a major maintenance project on a Class 1 railroad looks like! A long line of machines, each with its own specific purpose, stretch west on the tracks west of Leyden. At the front of the line (closest to the camera) is a crane that is piling up old ties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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