Photo ID: 108192 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 999 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific The area around has changed a lot over the decades, but by-and-large North Yard has remained the same for those same decades. This, along with Roper in Salt Lake, was Rio Grande’s main classification yard. Under SP, the yard was packed full still as many trains ran on the Moffat from the Pacific Northwest to Texas. Under UP, however...particularly in the last few years...traffic has dropped off quite a bit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108190 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1028 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1996 was painted in honor of Southern Pacific, which became part of Union Pacific in September 1996. About four years after that merger, UP 4395 was delivered as part of 1,000 unit order of SD70Ms. Crazy to think it has been nearly 24 years since UP and SP merged. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108189 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1234 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Southern Pacific UP 1996, one of UP’s six heritage units, sits on one of the ready tracks in North Yard on a June afternoon. It is, perhaps, somewhat ironic that exactly 14 years ago that UP 1989, the Rio Grande Heritage Unit, sat a few hundred yards from this location under a tarp, waiting to be unveiled! UP 1996 is, of course, Southern Pacific’s heritage unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108188 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1232 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1996 sits among a few other units in North Yard. It came in on the MNPNY yesterday and, after being fueled, is now waiting for its next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108160 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kimball, NE 1073 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots HPC When was the last time you recall seeing a high nose unit? This GP9 has found a nice "retirement" job, working as the High Plains Co-Op switcher in Kimball, NE. The GP9 started life as Pennsylvania Railroad #7011, built in 1955. It went through the New York Central merger and became Penn Central #7011. When Penn Central went belly up and Conrail was former, this guy survived and became Conrail #7011 and was then renumbered to Conrail #7516. It was finally retired and purchased by High Plains Co-Op. I found some pictures of the unit in previous lifes on Railroad Picture Archives. Here are some links: Pennsylvania 7011 Penn Central 7011 Conrail 7516 Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108159 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kimball, NE 1053 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots HPC One of many, many grain elevators that can be found across the fruited plain, High Plains Co-Op has a large elevator in Kimball, NE. They even have an old GP9 to shuffle covered hoppers around the elevator! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108156 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney, NE 1127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots PRLX, SLGG A quartet of brand new (or at least freshly painted) PR30C rebuilds sit on the Sidney and Lowe shortline near Sidney, NE. Former BNSF SD40-2s, the units are now lettered for PRLX, which is Progress Rail Services, the company that rebuilt them. Not sure why they would have fresh BNSF paint but be lettered PRLX. Regardless, here they sit! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108155 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney, NE 1071 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots PRLX, SLGG Here is an interesting looking creature! PRLX 1323 is a PR30C, a Progress Rail Services rebuild from an SD40-2. The prime mover has been replaced and the unit upgraded to Tier 2 emissions standards. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108154 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney, NE 936 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots PRLX, SLGG A former BNSF (and, before that, Santa Fe) SD75M sits waiting an assignment near Sidney, NE. This unit was BNSF 8241 until being sold to Progress Rail Services, which operates the Sidney and Lowe shortline near Sidney. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108153 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney, NE 954 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots PRLX, SLGG The Sidney and Lowe Railroad is a shortline railroad consisting of about 11 miles of track in the Sidney, NE area. They interchange with both BNSF and UP and are owned by Progress Rail Service. Here, two former BNSF SD75Ms sits shut off, awaiting their next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108146 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 957 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF In the main classification yard in Alliance, BNSF has about 500 units stored, most of which are C44-9Ws or ES44ACs (CitiRail leasors). Tack on another 100 or so units, most of which are SD70MACs, on one of the tracks on the engine maintenance facility side of the yard. This string of units brings the total number stored in Gillette, WY, Edgemont, SD, and Alliance, NE to somewhere around 1,300! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108145 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 946 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A sole BNSF SD40-2 makes a reverse move in the yard at Alliance to pick up a few cars for switching on the far side of the yard. A manifest sits on one of the yard tracks, ready to depart, just waiting on a crew. A ton of surplus units also sit in storage throughout the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108144 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 932 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While BNSF does have a fairly large classification yard in Alliance, NE, it has a huge locomotive maintenance facility here. Most, if not all, of the major locomotive maintenance items required on engines in the mid-west are handled here in Alliance. In the days of Burlington Northern, this was the largest engine maintenance facility on the railroad. A good chunk of BNs units were maintained here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108143 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 959 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX After finding about 500 units stored in Gillette, WY and another 200 units stored in Edgemont, SD, an additional 500 or so units are currently being stored in Alliance Yard in Alliance, NE. About 300 of the units are visible in in this long lens shot. Nearly all (if not all) of the CitiRail leasor ES44ACs are currently here in Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108142 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 1014 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX You may remember that a lot of gray and blue CitiRail leasor units showed up on BNSF a few years ago, when BNSF was encoutering a power shortage. Well, unfortunately, due to the currently economy, BNSF now has the opposite problem! A major surplus in power. Most of the Citirail units are currently being stored on a single, seemingly endless track in the Alliance Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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