Photo ID: 113016 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 350 (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 416 (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 374 (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 362 (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 367 (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 377 (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 358 (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 380 (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 404 (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 505 (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. Photo ID: 113006 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed KYLE in Limon Denver, CO 611 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP's Limon Local is leaving the mainline behind to drop off 40 cars with the KYLE railroad. The Limon Depot rests right in between UP's Limon Subdivision (to the left) and the west end of the KYLE railroad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113005 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed KYLE in Limon Denver, CO 548 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 7719 leads the Limon Local right by the Limon Depot. This track was once owned by the Rock Island until its demise in 1980. Rock Island trains coming from Chicago would join the UP KP line here in Limon for the trip west to Denver. Now, the line is owned by the KYLE railroad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113004 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Limon (8,841ft) Denver, CO 467 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Just over an hour before sunset, UP's Limon Local has arrived in Limon. It has come to a stop on the main, and the conductor will soon hop off and throw the switch that leads from UP's Limon Sub over to the KYLE railroad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113003 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Denver, CO 495 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific At the start of Golden Hour, UP's Limon Local passes the west switch of Cedar Point, roughly ten miles west of Limon. While I am not complaining about the opportunity to chase a train on the Limon Sub, it would have been great if the ES44AC had been left behind and the train had run with just the pair of SD40-2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113002 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers to Agate Denver, CO 475 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific The Limon Subdivision used to see a lot of traffic in the early 2000s. Coal trains coming from or headed to mines in Western Colorado, during the height of coal, would run on the Limon Sub. These days, the eastern mainline has all but been deserted. The Limon Local makes periodic trips from Denver to Limon. There is an occasional oil train, but most of the UP oil trains run on the Overland. There's also a grain train from time-to-time, but otherwise, not much runs out here. You could easily spend an entire day trackside and not see anything moving. Fortunately, I was able to catch the Limon Local this afternoon as it heads east, just west of Agate. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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