Photo ID: 110404 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 8745 sits on the ready track at North Yard, awaiting its next assignment. Looks as though the trucks may have recently been swapped out. The shade of gray definitely does not quite match the fuel tank! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110403 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 284 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 6696 sits near the North Yard shops with blue flags posted. Behind UP 6696, a string of engines sit on the ready track. As the name implies, engines on the ready track are ready for their next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110402 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 315 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An SD70M sits just south of the engine shop at North Yard. With all heavy maintenance having been moved to North Platte, I'm not even sure to what extent maintenance on engines can be done at North Yard these days. Regardless, the shop door is open on a Sunday afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110401 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 315 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A GP38-2 (now designated as a GP38N after a rebuilt by UP) and an SD40-2 sit together near the yard office in North Yard. These two units are idle at the moment, but when needed, they'll be used as switcher in the yard. It is pretty easy to trace the heritage of UP 737 by virtue of the fact that it has no dynamic brakes. With very few exception, nearly any unit without dynamic brakes is of Missouri Pacific heritage. MoPac ordered many units that had no dynamic brakes as MoPac ran in (relatively) flat lands. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110400 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 371 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The ZLBDV has arrived in Denver and is currently shoving cars back in to the intermodal facility located just off of UP's 36th Street Yard. This entire area, known as the Rhino District of Denver, has radically changed in the past 10-15 years. Massive apartment complexes have built up all around the yard. New restaurants have opened in the area and new bridges cross the yard to connect either side of the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110399 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 502 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Rio Grande caboose 01447 has been saved from the scrapper. It was donated to the Forney Museum of Transportation and it sits in the parking lot of the museum. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110398 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 359 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver has a lot of great, classic equipment. Trains, cars, motorcycles, and even a few small planes. One of the "crown jewels" of the train collection is UP 4005. It is one of only 25 that were produced between 1941 and 1944. This particular one is "stuffed" meaning it is no longer operable. But it looks pretty great sitting inside the museum, safe and protected from the outside conditions of the world. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110397 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 489 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande The Forney Museum has done a great job of working on restoration of DRGW 3006. The graffiti has all been cleaned off, and the class lights and Mars lights have been restored. I really liked this perspective, looking up toward the number board and nose from the ground inside the Forney Museum. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110396 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 531 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande Six years prior to this shot, DRGW 3006 was moved from Burnham to this location inside the Forney Transportation Museum. To the best of my knowledge, it is one of only two Rio Grande GP30s that have been preserved as Rio Grande units, both being in Colorado. In my very early days of rail photography back in 1997, I actually got a very similar shot (in terms of perspective) of DRGW 3006 when it was working in North Yard! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110395 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Forney Museum of Transportation Denver, CO 568 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande With a mid-day lull in action, I decided to stop by the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver. This is the forever home of Rio Grande GP30 #3006! This unit sat at Burnham for over a decade, waiting for find out what would happen to it. Fortunately, it has a great home, protected from the conditions of the outside world. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110154 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bur Denver, CO 269 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An overview of the Burnham property from the north side. You can see that a lot of rail used to run through the property, but evidence of them is disappearing as weeds overtake what is left on the property. Rumor has it that CDOT (the Colorado Department of Transportation) has purchased the property. For exactly what reason, it is not clear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110153 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Denver, CO 285 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific From the northeast side of Building #3, the fire damage does not look quite as severe, save for the clearly charred black roof that no longer really exists. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110152 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Denver, CO 282 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific From the north side of Burnham, we look south and see a few refuel pads that were once used, with their concrete bases. The rails have all long since been removed, and mother nature is trying to reclaim the property. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110151 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Denver, CO 331 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific You can pretty obviously tell which parts of Building #3 were built out of brick and/or concrete, and which parts were build out of wood. The roof of the main part of the building is gone, and most of the walls (and roof) of the secondary part of the building are also gone. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110150 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Denver, CO 287 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific From the south side of Building #4 and Building #3, we look north. You can see the top of Building #3, clearly burned out from the fire in the summer of 2021. And, as is the case throughout Burnham, graffiti is absolutely everywhere. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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