Photo ID: 103419 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Greeley (8,349ft) Greeley, CO 1893 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific A northbound empty soda ash train rolls north on the main track at Greeley. The train is waiting for a southbound which will run down the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103418 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 60 Ault, CO 2377 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Rio Grande A look at a funeral train which is transporting 21 units (17 tunnel motors) from Ogden, UT to Denver, CO. Once reaching Denver, the units will be moved to Burnham and placed in storage until they can be auctioned off. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103417 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 61 Ault, CO 2114 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande This was the third to last SD40T-2 that Rio Grande received. This was DRGW 5411, delivered in March 1980. The unit is headed for retirement at Burnham in Denver. Appropriate, considering the time it must have spent at Burnham over the years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103416 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 61 Ault, CO 2080 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific A side view of a snoot-nose SD40T-2 headed for retirement. This tunnel motor started off as Espee 8330 when delivered in April 1979. So as of this photo, it had just celebrated its 31st birthday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103415 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 61 Ault, CO 3016 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande This was the second Rio Grande unit that came on the property in October 1974. While many tunnel motors received a full repaint over the years, this unit was only patched! It'll be retired off UP's roster as it is seen here, and it'll spend its time at Burnham in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103414 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 61 Ault, CO 2238 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande In January 1977, this unit arrived on Rio Grande's property as DRGW 5382. 22 years later, the unit was renumbered to UP 4008. It then lived as UP 8578 before being moved to UP 2900. After 33 years of service, this unit is headed for retirement at Burnham. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103413 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 61 Ault, CO 2563 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande This unit has a long history of numbers! It was delivered as DRGW 5351 in in October of 1974. It was then painted in Espee colors and fly letters after the Rio Grande / Espee merger. After the Espee / UP merger, it was renumbered to UP 4004 on March 29, 1999. It kept that number for less than a year. It moved to UP 8574 on March 17, 2000 to make room for the SD70Ms. UP then moved it one more time, to UP 2885 on December 20, 2002. Just over seven years later, it is off to retirement. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103412 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pierce (MP 66.7) Pierce, CO 2491 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific I suspect there is a good chance that this going to be the last time that I will be able to shoot multiple tunnel motors on the mainline. This is a "funeral" train and every unit in this picture is dead, on its way to retirement. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103411 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W071 (South Nunn) Nunn, CO 3612 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Here is a very depressing train! It is known as a "hospital train" or "funeral train". It is so named because all but the first three units are heading for retirement. 21 units are headed for retirement. 17 of those units are SD40T-2s. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103410 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 42 Platteville, CO 2226 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The Brighton Local is rolling south between La Salle and Gilcrest. The train will go in to the siding at Platteville to meet a northbound soda ash empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103305 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 20, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 18 Brighton, CO 2264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The MNPNY (Manifest, North Platte to North Yard) is passing underneath E-470 about a mile south of Brighton. It may be nearing the end of March, but there's still plenty of snow on the ground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103304 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 20, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 27 Fort Lupton, CO 1819 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific It is the last day of Winter for 2009-2010 and the grass is slowly starting to turn green again. A southbound manifest passes through a field just north of Fort Lupton, CO Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103303 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 20, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 34 (CP W034) Platteville, CO 1846 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific Union Pacific has been slowly replacing the signals along the Greeley Sub. The signal at south Platteville has yet to be replaced. While the signal hasn't been replaced, the codeline has. Not the ATCS radio tower seemingly coming up out of the middle of the lead unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103302 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 20, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 34 (CP W034) Platteville, CO 2335 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific US-85 parallels the Greeley Sub for most of the trip from Hazeltine to Nunn. Here, cars heading north on the highway are likely indifferent to the MNPNY-20, which is approaching the south switch of Platteville. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103301 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 20, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 38 Gilcrest, CO 1891 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Union Pacific The daily North Platte to North Yard manifest enters a super elevated curve just south of Gilcrest on its way toward Denver. The train is being led by a pair of GE AC's, the first of which was an AC6000CW until it was converted from 6,000 HP to 4,400 HP. 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