Photo ID: 108992 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W952 (Greeley Jct) Greeley, CO 343 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific NS 4004 leads an empty unit grain train off the Great Western Railroad, across the US-85 business loop in Greeley, toward UP's main track on the Greeley Subdivision. The width of the four lane highway, including shoulders and center median, is approximately the length of one unit! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108991 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Greeley, CO 302 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific Great Western Railroad is a shortline that switches dozens of businesses in northern Colorado. The railroad interchanges with BNSF in Longmont and Ft Collins and interchanges with UP in Milliken and Greeley. Due to the volume of interchange traffic in Greeley, in 2016, UP built a full CTC control point to make interchanging easier. In this shot, NS 4004 leads an empty grain train off GWR tracks and on to UP's Greeley Sub at Greeley Jct (CP W952). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108990 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W952 (Greeley Jct) Greeley, CO 377 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific Great Western Railroad is a shortline that switches dozens of businesses in northern Colorado. The railroad interchanges with BNSF in Longmont and Ft Collins and interchanges with UP in Milliken and Greeley. Due to the volume of interchange traffic in Greeley, in 2016, UP built a full CTC control point to make interchanging easier. In this shot, NS 4004 leads an empty grain train off GWR tracks and on to UP's Greeley Sub at Greeley Jct (CP W952). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108989 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Greeley Greeley, CO 314 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Great Western Railroad Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific NS 4004 has completed unloading in Windsor on the Great Western Railroad. The GWR crew has been replaced by a Union Pacific crew (still on GWR trackage). The train just received word from UP's Greeley Sub dispatcher that the train can continue east and watch for a signal indication for the turn north on to the Greeley Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108988 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Windsor Windsor, CO 353 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Great Western Railroad Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific In the market for a location for you business that needs access to rail? Consider the Great Western Industrial Park in Windsor, CO! There are currently lots available. Meanwhile, NS 4004 works on unloading a unit grain train within the industrial park. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108987 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Windsor Windsor, CO 303 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Great Western Railroad Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific Starting in late 2015, Norfolk Southern teamed up with GE to start rebuilding some of their older Dash-9s with DC traction motors to AC traction motors. The cost was only 50%-60% that of a new AC unit. The units were designated as AC44C6Ms, and several of them at the start of the series received special paint schemes. NS 4004 is one such unit, currently on the Great Western Railroad, emptying covered hoppers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108986 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Windsor Windsor, CO 340 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Great Western Railroad Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific A grain train unloads at Windsor, CO on the Great Western Railroad. UP brought the train down on the Greeley Sub and delivered it to the Great Western, whose crews took over for the unloading. A unique visitor from the east happens to be leading the train! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108960 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific UP's MGJNY includes a visitor from the east today! The third unit on the manifest is a Norfolk Southern SD70ACe, #1010. Always great to catch a foreign visitor to change up the colors a bit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108659 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 3, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 656 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, Norfolk Southern After meeting its eastbound counterpart, the Denver-Provo continues to hold the siding at Rocky to meet an eastbound hyrailer! This track maintainer observed a defect in the rail around Coal Creek Canyon that is going to require repair before the westbound can get underway. The hyrailer will meet with a crew from Leyden that will head up to Coal Creek and conduct repairs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108658 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 3, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 651 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, Norfolk Southern Near the west end of Rocky, BNSF's westbound Denver-Provo sits in the siding, waiting patiently. The train has just met an eastbound BNSF manifest, but now needs to wait for some track repairs that were found by a hyrailer up at Coal Creek Canyon. The crew has been told to get comfortable and expect to wait for at least 90 minutes, and quite probably longer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108215 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 22, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 861 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern A coal empty passes by the open hoppers that wrap around the inside curve of Big Ten. Those hoppers have been sitting there alongside the main for nearly 50 years, serving as a wind break. This morning, An SD70ACe and an NS AC4400CW lead four other UP GEs west around the curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107071 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1165 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific UP's eastbound rail train had a Norfolk Southern SD60E in the consist! A rare visitor to Colorado, this was original a (standard cab) SD60 that Norfolk Southern rebuilt at its Altoona, PA shops. In addition to adding a wide cab, the unit received some electrical upgrades as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106926 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 30, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 1311 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ferromex, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, BNSF This massive Provo-Denver (with six units on the point and one DPU on the tail end) had to stop and tie down here at Rocky. At the time, BNSF had no room train in the yard. A van is coming out from Denver to pick up the crew and take them to their hotel. When the yard is ready, a Denver-based crew will come out and take the train the remaining 17 or so miles in to the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106924 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 30, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 1168 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern You may note that the cab on this Norfolk Southern looks a little different. This unit is designated as an SD60E. Norfolk Southern has rebuilt 100 or so SD60s at their locomotive shops in Altoona, PA. Electronics were upgraded and the standard spartan cabs were replaced with Norfolk Southern's own version of a wide cab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106923 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 30, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 1243 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ferromex, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, BNSF I caught this train above the tracks at East Cliff and then hustled down to the base of Coal Creek to get ready for a shot. Fortunately, the train was restricted to 20 MPH between Crescent and Rocky due to high winds. That gave me some extra time to climb around in the Jefferson County Open Space to try to find the best perspective possible. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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