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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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788 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Multiple armor yellow units provide the backdrop at North Yard for UP 1979. UP painted this SD70M in a special scheme referred to as the "We Are ONE" scheme. The scheme includes the nine Employee Resource Groups that Union Pacific offers for its employees. The first such group, the Black Employee Network (or BEN) was created in 1979, indicating the reason for the number of the unit.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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697 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Along the top of the long hood of UP's "We Are ONE" unit, you can find the nine Employee Resource Groups that UP offers for its employees:
AERO - Asian Employee Resource Organization
BEN - Black Employee Network
BRIDGES - LGBT Employee Network
CONAH - Council of Native American Heritage
EASE - Educate. Advance. Support. Encourage.
LEAD - Women's Advancement: Lead. Education. Achieve. Develop.
LEN - Latino Employee Network
TIES - Connecting Employees. Uniting Communities. Emerging Professionals
VETS - Veterans and Employees Continuing to Serve
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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706 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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Say hello to the latest specially painted Union Pacific unit. UP 1979 is an SD70M painted in the "We Are ONE" scheme. UP created the unit as a unifying unit amongst UP employees. It highlights all of the Employee Resource Groups UP has. The first such group was the Black Employees Network (called "BEN"). That group was created in 1979, hence the number choice for the unit.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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878 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific
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The area around has changed a lot over the decades, but by-and-large North Yard has remained the same for those same decades. This, along with Roper in Salt Lake, was Rio Grande’s main classification yard. Under SP, the yard was packed full still as many trains ran on the Moffat from the Pacific Northwest to Texas. Under UP, however...particularly in the last few years...traffic has dropped off quite a bit.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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North Yard
Denver, CO
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1051 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
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UP 1996, one of UP’s six heritage units, sits on one of the ready tracks in North Yard on a June afternoon. It is, perhaps, somewhat ironic that exactly 14 years ago that UP 1989, the Rio Grande Heritage Unit, sat a few hundred yards from this location under a tarp, waiting to be unveiled! UP 1996 is, of course, Southern Pacific’s heritage unit.
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Monday, June 1, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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Kimball, NE
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Yard Shots
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HPC
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When was the last time you recall seeing a high nose unit? This GP9 has found a nice "retirement" job, working as the High Plains Co-Op switcher in Kimball, NE. The GP9 started life as Pennsylvania Railroad #7011, built in 1955. It went through the New York Central merger and became Penn Central #7011. When Penn Central went belly up and Conrail was former, this guy survived and became Conrail #7011 and was then renumbered to Conrail #7516. It was finally retired and purchased by High Plains Co-Op.
I found some pictures of the unit in previous lifes on Railroad Picture Archives. Here are some links:
Pennsylvania 7011
Penn Central 7011
Conrail 7516
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Monday, June 1, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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Sidney, NE
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1006 (Add a Comment)
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Yard Shots
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PRLX, SLGG
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A quartet of brand new (or at least freshly painted) PR30C rebuilds sit on the Sidney and Lowe shortline near Sidney, NE. Former BNSF SD40-2s, the units are now lettered for PRLX, which is Progress Rail Services, the company that rebuilt them. Not sure why they would have fresh BNSF paint but be lettered PRLX. Regardless, here they sit!
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