Not a wide cab unit to be seen! Three SD40-2's (the third a former MoPac unit with no dynamic brakes) sit on the Lodo Siding just south of the 31st Street Yard.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
While moving this SD40-2 back to the service tracks next to the engine house, the engineer throttles up. The result is quite a bit of exhaust being produced by the 16-cylinder, 645E prime mover!
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
The eastbound Denver to Chicago Z-Train (led by BNSF 4979 with NS 7503 and NS 9053 along for the ride) enters the siding at Tonville to meet with a very late-running Amtrak 5. Tonville is nearly a 7200-foot siding and the Z-Train stretched nearly from east signal to west signal!
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
Got trains? Two northbound coals empties are tied down on Main Two and Main Three. A third coal empty slows to a stop at the intermediate signal at Evans to tied down as well. Meanwhile, a southbound coal load passes by on Main One, and an RTD Light Rail train makes a stop at the Evans Street Station.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
Never a dull moment on the Joint Line, a coal empty moves quickly north on Main Two while a coal load creeps slowly by on Main One, just north of Sedalia.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
Wrapping its way through an S-Curve in between Greenland and Larkspur, this northbound is making good time moving at track speed, 45 MPH. If you look, you can just barely see I-25 in the background.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
Making its way north on the single track mainline, BNSF 9844 is about to pass underneath the bridge leading to the north entrance of the United States Air Force Academy.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
After meeting two coal empties at Colorado Springs (both of which are visible on the right), BNSF 5656 south approaches Bijou on a clear signal.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
Creeping forward on a restrictive signal, BNSF 5645 passes the crossover at Bijou, following another northbound coal empty ahead of it in the siding. The signal on the main looks as though it is "dark" over red, but it is actually flashing yellow over red (Advanced Approach). I caught this picture in mid-flash!
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
Cheyenne Mountain stands tall in the background as BNSF 9844 moves slowly through the siding at Colorado Springs.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
The heat distortion of a southbound coal load blurs the headlights of a northbound coal empty.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
South of the single track CTC between Palmer Lake and Crews, BNSF 9676 passes the location where the Santa Fe once crossed over the Rio Grande prior to the "joint" operation of the Joint Line.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
While a coal empty slowly makes its way into the 31st street yard on Main One, a yard job works on switching (using one leg of the wye).
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
A northbound coal empty is led by seven units, six of which are "Green and Cream" SD70MACs. The second unit was once a high nose Norfolk Western SD40 (#1616). The unit (now GCFX 3073) was rebuilt to SD40-2 specs.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
What were once warehouses used for industries are now upscale lofts in much of LoDo (Lower Downtown). Two of these lofts sit behind 9389 in this shot as 9389 sits on the passenger special on Track Three at Denver Union Station.
Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster
or add a comment to the picture.
