Photo ID: 113067 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 389 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A good overview of what little remains of UP's (and, before that, Rio Grande's) Burnham Shops in Denver. This was taken near the south end of the yard, looking north toward the 8th Avenue Viaduct and the main engine maintenance facility. On Valentine's Day, 2016, Burnham was closed. Some shop personnel were offer transfers to North Platte, NE. Others were offered "golden parachutes" to retire. Still, others were just let go. 5-10 years from the date of this shot, this same perspective will likely show a brand new stadium for the Denver Broncos. It is said the stadium will include a retractable roof with the hopes of attracting the Super Bowl. The Broncos current stadium, Empower Field, which opened in 2001, is visible in this shot in the distance. Look for the orange and blue in the top-left quadrant of the shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113066 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 400 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande In this shot, you can clearly see the pit for the turntable that was actually in use at Burnham up until it was closed in 2016. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113065 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 371 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The 8th Avenue viaduct was constructed well after the main engine maintenance facility at Burnham, so the viaduct had to curve around the south side of the building, only a few feet away. It sounds as though the Denver Broncos are going to get a new stadium build on these grounds, so it is likely that the 8th Avenue viaduct will be demolished. Time is also running out for the engine maintenance building as well. It is the only building (as of the taking of this picture) that hasn't started (or completed) demolition at Burnham. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113064 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 401 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Part of a large transfer crane still stands on its rail tracks at the former Burnham shops. You can see Downtown Denver in the distance, only about a mile and a half away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113063 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 377 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Rubble from part of the car shop is still waiting to be hauled away from the former Burnham shops southwest of downtown Denver. In the bottom-right corner, note that you can still see a little bit of rail (actually three-rail; both standard and narrow gauge) in the concrete. This was once inside a the car shop facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113062 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 405 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande This shot shows where Rio Grande main car maintenance facility was once located. The pit with weeds growing in it once had a transfer table to shuffle cars around. The building, some of which the rubble is still visible, is where Rio Grande took great care to maintenance the passenger cars on the Rio Grande Zephyr (along with many others) for years. Now, it slowly fades into history. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113061 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 399 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The remnants of one of the buildings that was once located here at Burnham lays on the ground next to a bulldozer, the last remaining scraps waiting to be loaded onto a truck to be hauled away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113060 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 398 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande With demolition of the former yard at Burnham, the main engine facility is just about the only building still standing. Virtually every other building on the property has now been torn down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113059 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 369 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande On Valentine's Day in 2016, Union Pacific closed the Burnham Shops in Denver, permanently. This had been Rio Grande's main diesel and car repair facility in Denver, separate from North Yard. The rails have long since been pulled up, and the property has been sold. It sounds like the Denver Broncos will be getting a brand new stadium, built on this location! As such, a demolition crew has started tearing down the buildings. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113050 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 429 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots MRLX, Union Pacific Found this interesting-looking coach car sitting in North Yard. It is numbered MRLX 1659, and it supposedly came from Alamosa, CO. It is headed for a railroad museum in Illinois. It will catch a ride on the back of UP's MNYNP (to North Platte), and be forwarded further east from there. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113044 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 3 (MP 25.8, 369 ft) Jefferson County, CO 370 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 7816 leads a coal empty out of the west portal of Tunnel. Just around the curve behind the camera and to the right is Tunnel 4. Through the tunnel district, it can feel like you spend as much time in tunnels as out of them! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113043 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 3 (MP 25.8, 369 ft) Jefferson County, CO 416 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It was this time of year roughly 12 years ago that a "500 year storm" hit Colorado when it rained for four days straight. In that storm, the fill between Tunnel 2 and Tunnel 3 completely washed out, shutting down the Moffat for roughly two weeks. Fast-forward to this day as a westbound coal empty crosses the fill, through the cut, and toward Tunnel 3. In the distance to the left, you can see the back half of the train, still coming through Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113042 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS025 (West Plain) Jefferson County, CO 408 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At the west switch of Plain, a westbound coal empty is getting ready to dive into the Tunnel District! As the lead unit rounds the bend, the crew is looking straight into the east portal of Tunnel 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113041 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 398 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As this westbound coal empty, with four units on the point, heads west on the main at Plain, you might notice that there is ballast that appears much lighter in places. UP is in the process of essentially re-ballasting the entire Moffat right now! A project, along with tie and tie plate replacements, is supposed to last the next three months. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113040 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 405 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you are familiar with the Moffat, then you are probably well aware that in the early 2000s, coal was king on the line. You could expect to see as many as 16-20 coal trains (half westbound empties and half eastbound loads) in a 24 hour period. Now, coal train have essentially become the rarest train type (of the train types that run) on the Moffat. UP 7861 leads this westbound at Plain. Note the missing number board on the engineer's side. there is an array of LEDs providing lights for the should-be number board. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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