Photo ID: 113021 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 341 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific The conductor has finally walked the train to make sure all the hand brakes are released. The engineer is now on the train alone, and the conductor is going to watch the train roll by to, again, ensure there are no sticking hand brakes for the journey east to Limon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113020 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 362 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific After spending two hours pulling cars out of the yard at Stapleton, the Limon Local is getting close to being ready to depart east. However, the conductor still has to walk the entire 84-car train to make sure all the hand brakes have been released. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113019 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 383 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific I shot the Limon Local a week earlier, and the leader the crew was given was in much better shape than this AC4400CW! This particular unit is probably wearing the same paint as when it was delivered to Union Pacific in November 1995. An interesting note about this unit. It was actually ordered by Chicago North Western. But it was ready for delivery after the UP acquired the CNW, so it was delivered in UP colors. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113018 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific The crew on UP 6873 brought the AC4400CW out of North Yard over to Stapleton here on the Limon Sub. The unit is sitting on Main 1, getting ready to enter the yard. You can see there are a lot of cars waiting. 84 cars in all, plus a GP40-2 and an SD40-2. The crew will have to triple over to build the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113017 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 336 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific An SD70M leads this eastbound light power move toward a diverging clear signal (away from the camera) at Havana Street. The crew light power is going all the way to Kansas to pick up a grain train. It is the harvest season! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113016 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 336 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific These three units are approaching a diverging clear signal at Havana Street, where Main 2 ends. The light power has a long journey ahead, as it is headed to Ogallah, KS to pick up a grain train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113015 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 401 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Three GEs lead this westbound ballast train, which came down the Greeley Sub. It now sits on Bypass 1, just east of C&S Junction. The train is waiting for a crew to be called to take it west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113014 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 352 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Sitting on Bypass 1 at C&S Junction, a westbound ballast train is awaiting a crew to be called to take the train west on the Moffat. The train will need some DPUs added before taking on the grade of the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113013 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog Some maintenance of way cars are stored in the house track at Rocky, waiting for their next assignment. As part of ballast and tie replacement project UP is undertaking, there are some new ties along the house track. The gondolas are filled with tie plates. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113012 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 353 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog A pair of GEs brings up the tail end of a westbound ballast train, currently in the siding at Rocky. These ballast cars, incidentally, are pretty amazing. They each have onboard computers and satellite link-ups. Each car knows where it is on the rails and how fast the train is moving (when it is moving). This allows the ballast cars to automatically dump ballast at the exact correct rate. As a result of being GPS enabled, the cars stop dumping ballast when crossing grade crossing and over switches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113011 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 360 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog This westbound ballast train was setup in a 3x2 configuration. However, when it started pulling out of the siding at Rocky, the drawbar on the front of the lead ballast car broke, and the train went into emergency. Fortunately, the train was not further west when it broken, as there is a chance the train would've blocked the mainline. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113010 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 338 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog A westbound ballast train has suffered a broken drawbar. When the drawbar broke, the engines (obviously) pulled away from the cars, putting the train into emergency. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113009 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 362 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog Union Pacific is starting a significant maintenance project on the Moffat. It appears they are going to re-ballast much of the line (if not the entire thing). They are also going to re-tie the Moffat Tunnel itself. Here, a ballast train was preparing to head west and drop ballast. Unfortunately, the train broke the drawbar on the lead ballast car, so it is not going anywhere anytime soon! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113008 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 388 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog This westbound ballast train stopped in the siding at Rocky to meet the westbound Rocky Mountaineer. After the Mountaineer passed, the ballast train started pulling west and broke the drawbar on the west end of the lead ballast car! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113007 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed KYLE in Limon Limon, CO 481 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP's Limon Local is pulling into the three track yard at the west end of the KYLE railroad. After dropping off 40 cars for the KYLE, the local will pick up the string of tank cars here that the KYLE left for the local. The KYLE was formed in 1982 by the Willis B Kyle Organization after the fall of the Rock Island. The railroad has gone through several owners over the years, and since 2012, it has been owned by the Genesee & Wyoming. The railroad operate roughly 510 miles of track, with 420 miles in Kansas, and the 90 or so remaining miles in eastern Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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