Photo ID: 108760 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 788 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108759 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 693 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A top-down view of UP's "We Are ONE" unit, UP 1979. I was a little surprised to find the multi-colored design that was added to the top of the long hood. Looks pretty good! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108758 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 697 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific 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 Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108757 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 706 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108408 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 929 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Another look at a UP passenger special sitting in the Storage Yard at North Yard. The ten car train will depart tomorrow morning for a trip west over the former Grande as far as Helper, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108407 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1093 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A UP Officer's Special sits on one of the tracks in the Storage Yard at the north end of North Yard. The train made the trip here from North Platte, NE today. It will sit in the yard overnight. A crew will be called at 8:00am tomorrow morning and the train is set to depart west for Helper, UT at 9:30am. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108350 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 10, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 876 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific There is barely a cloud in the sky on a July day that saw triple digit heat in the Denver Metro area. The Colorado Springs Utility coal train sits on Yard Track 1, awaiting for a crew. Once it gets a crew, it will depart on the Belt Industrial Lead and head to the Greeley Sub and north to the Powder River Basin. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108348 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 10, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 857 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The mercury hits triple digits (101°F) on a very hot summer day as a North Yard remote job switches cars in the storage yard. In the background, a train carrying wind nacelles enters in to the yard from the Belt Industrial lead, crossing BNSF's North Main and UP's own Moffat Tunnel Sub Main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108192 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 878 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108190 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 895 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1996 was painted in honor of Southern Pacific, which became part of Union Pacific in September 1996. About four years after that merger, UP 4395 was delivered as part of 1,000 unit order of SD70Ms. Crazy to think it has been nearly 24 years since UP and SP merged. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108189 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1051 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Southern Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108188 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1091 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1996 sits among a few other units in North Yard. It came in on the MNPNY yesterday and, after being fueled, is now waiting for its next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108160 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kimball, NE 968 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots HPC 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 Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108159 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kimball, NE 933 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots HPC One of many, many grain elevators that can be found across the fruited plain, High Plains Co-Op has a large elevator in Kimball, NE. They even have an old GP9 to shuffle covered hoppers around the elevator! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108156 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney, NE 1006 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots PRLX, SLGG 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! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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