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Sunday, August 4, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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BNSF Engine House
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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BNSF
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I have long appreciated the fact that, when patching old Santa Fe and Burlington Northern units, BNSF matched the color scheme for the patches. Unlike UP, which simply slapped a yellow and red patch on the cabs. Nearly 30 years after the BNSF merger, a blue and yellow GP39-2 is seen hanging out around the Denver yard.
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Sunday, August 4, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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With the cost and seemingly frequent mechanical issues of Tier-4 locomotives, many railroads have taken to rebuilding rather than buying new. UP is no exception, as they have been rebuilding C44-9Ws, C44AC-CTEs, and others into C44ACMs. UP 5830 is a good example, as it sports UP's newest official scheme on the ready tracks in North Yard.
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Sunday, August 4, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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A pair of SD60Ms sit on a shop track in North Yard. UP 2465 was delivered to UP in March 1992 and UP 2498 was delivered to UP in October 1992. 32 years later and both units are still on the roster. I don't recall the last time I saw an SD60M on the main, so not entirely sure where these two units came from or where they are headed.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Cherokee Power Station
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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XCLX
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This blue building houses a rotary dump. When coal trains powered the power plant here, trains were pulled through this building. One car at a time, the car was secured to the track and the entire car was rotated upside down to dump out the coal. Underground conveyor belts took the coal to the plant. This rotary dump has now been silent for seven years, likely to never be active again, as the power plant is now entirely fueled by natural gas.
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Cherokee Power Station
Denver, CO
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Yard Shots
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XCLX
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Echoes of the Past
At Xcel Energy's Cherokee Power Station in northeast Denver, a string of Xcel Energy owned coal hoppers sit silent on slowly rusting rails. Until 2017, the plant was powered by coal from the Colorado high country. For the last seven years, the plant has been fired exclusively by natural gas. The coal trains were emptied in the rotary dump within the blue building to the left.
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Sunday, July 7, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
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There are only five AC4400CWs still on UP's roster that have not received a full UP repaint. UP 6236 is one such example, still in its original scarlet and gray, with yellow UP patches applied. Here, it sits in North Yard awaiting assignment after arriving on the MGJNY. The unit actually served on the Minturn Local (which hasn't gone as far as Minturn in decades) just a few days ago in the Colorado high country. This was originally SP 257.
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