Photo ID: 102050 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1846 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Longmont Switch, after carrying out the duties normally handled by the Buck Local, just completed a rare daylight move up to Lafayette. The Longmont Switch has dropped off its cars and is now returning as light power north back toward Boulder. There, it will switch a recycling plant before returning north to Longmont. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102049 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1770 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This is not an uncommon view to find here on my website...with one notable exception! Typically there isn't a train actually on the Lafayette Industrial Lead. Burns Junction is the location where the C&S main and the CB&Q main diverged and took their own routes to Longmont. Today, the old CB&Q main on the right only runs as far as Lafayette and only serves a few industries along the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102048 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1749 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Buck Lead (BNSF) BNSF With most of its journey on the Lafayette Industrial Lead completed, the Longmont Switch (which is pretending to be the Buck Local here) is almost back to Burns Junction. Once there, the crew will drop off the five bulkhead flats and leave them for the Longmont Turn to pick up later that afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102047 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lafayette Lafayette, CO 1681 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Buck Lead (BNSF) BNSF After picking up five bulkhead flats from the Lafayette Lumber Company, the Longmont Switch is headed back down the branch line to the main line in Broomfield. The train is about to pass the new Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center just off to the left in this shot. The Northwest Parkway can be seen in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102046 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lafayette Lafayette, CO 1930 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Buck Lead (BNSF) BNSF Near the north end of the Lafayette Industrial Lead, the BNSF tracks cross over Coal Creek. Yup, the same Coal Creek found near Blue Mountain along the Moffat! Here, the Buck Local pull forward across the wooden trestle, getting ready to head back to the main line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102045 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed US-287 Broomfield, CO 2551 (3 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Buck Lead (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Longmont Switch (posing as the Buck Local) runs from the main track in Broomfield up the spur branch to Lafayette. Typically, this local runs at night. However, due to maintenance on the north end of the main track, the local ran in daylight on this Thursday afternoon! Here, the local is back across US-287 while traffic patiently waits. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102044 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 10.5 Arvada, CO 2738 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The weather was all over the place on this particular afternoon. Clear skies could be found to the east while a thunderstorm rolls in over the front range of the Rockies. This is BNSFs QSTDVJ-04, which was almost 7,000 feet long when it left Grand Junction! At this point, the train was about 6,000 feet long after dropping off several cars in Kremmling. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102043 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 17 Broomfield, CO 2036 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Beef! It's what's for dinner (apologies to all you vegetarians!) ... The northbound Valmont coal load, led up by BNSF 5807 and two UP AC4400CWs, passes a field along Brainard Road in Broomfield. A few cows looks on with disinterest as they search for fresh grass to graze on. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102042 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1976 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF An Officers Special, train symbol O-LAUTOP1-04A, head south through the siding at Broomfield with Longs Peak standing tall in the background. The special came down the Front Range Sub from Laurel, MT and is ultimately headed back to Topeka, KS (where it originated a few days earlier). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102041 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1835 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF On Cinco de Mayo, this five-car BNSF Officers Special runs south through the siding at Broomfield, meeting a northbound coal load headed for the Valmont power plant in Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102040 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 16 Broomfield, CO 2223 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This BNSF Officers Special departed Topeka, KS on May 2, ran to Denver, up the Brush Sub and around through Wyoming up to Laurel, MT. And now down again on the Front Range Sub, through Denver, down the Joint Line and back out to Topeka. A quick 4-day run around the block! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102039 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Broomfield, CO 2273 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The HPASSAG has become a very common train on the Front Range Sub, showing up just about daily in addition to the HLAUDEN and HDENLAU. BNSF 844 is one of the few C40-8Ws to wear the New Image scheme as of this date. The train is about to pass underneath US-36 just south of the siding of Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102037 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pecos Crossover (DS004) Denver, CO 1986 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In the 1980s, Santa Fe ran a high priority intermodal from Big Lift (south of Denver on the Joint Line) to La Juanta. The train was symboled QDVLJ and QLJDV. It was very common for this train to run with GP30s, GP35s and GP39-2s. Some twenty years later, it was a nice surprise to find a GP30 and a GP35 - both wearing the Yellow Bonnet - heading to town from the Golden Spur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102036 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 6 Denver, CO 2206 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF This train might be running on BNSF's Golden Subdivision, which primarily serves to transport cars into and out of the Coors Brewing company, but this is not the so-called "Beer Run". It is actually the Golden Switch job. There are several industries that run along the line that have nothing to do with Coors that need to be switched. Here, the switch job is bringing a few cars into town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102033 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 2078 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This is a scene that will be changing a lot in the next five years! Those buildings in the distance originally housed a company called StorageTek, although as of the time of this photo they were being leased to Sun Microsystems through the end of 2008. ConocoPhillips has purchased the "campus" and will tear down the existing buildings (beginning in 2009) in favor a brand new buildings as part of a new 432-acre training facility. For now, however, this HPASSAG is making its way south on the main at Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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