Photo ID: 108141 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 942 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF has a pretty substantial yard in Alliance. This dates back to the Burlington Northern days, when this was one of BNs largest midwest yards. Due to a downturn in the economy, the yard is actually not all that full. Many of the yard tracks either have empty hoppers or power stored in them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108121 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 979 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF If you've ever heard the term "Pink-bonnet" to describe a Warbonnet-painted engine, here is a good example! It has been so long since these units were painted, many of them have faded to the point that the red is definitely now a pink color. BNSF 699 is one such unit, stored in the middle of Edgemont Yard in South Dakota. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108120 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 949 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Three strings of stored units extend to the far end of the yard in Edgemont, SD. A downturn in the economy, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic started, has resulted a major decrease in power needs for Class 1 railroads. Hopefully the economy will have a swift recovery and many, if not all, of these units can be placed back in service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108119 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 1012 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This Warbonnet looks to be in mighty fine shape as it sits in the yard in Edgemont, SD in storage. Note that the exhaust stack has been "capped", indicating a long term storage. This is a C44-9W, although these units are often referred to as Dash 9-44CWs. You can even note this designation painted on the frame! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108118 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 1051 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF After discovering around 500 units stored in Donkey Creek Yard in Gillette, WY, I discovered that another 200 or so units are being stored in the yard in Edgemont, SD! Whereas a lot of the stored units in Gillette were SD70MACs, a majority of the ones in Edgemont are C44-9Ws. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108115 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 922 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF To help illustrate how (relatively) slow things are for the railroads right now, only of these yard tracks has something on it that is actually being used at the moment! The cars to the left are all in storage. The engines to the right are also all in storage. The hoppers to the left of the power are actually part of a current train that is waiting for a recrew to depart the yard for the Powder River Basin to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108114 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 1075 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While SD70MACs and C44-9Ws dominate the stored power in Donkey Creek yard, there are a few other units that can be found here. Such is the case for BNSF 2324, a GP38-2, buried in the middle of a string of units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108113 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 993 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This telephoto shot helps bring in to perspective just how many units BNSF currently has stored in Donkey Creek Yard. There are about 100 units on each of five different yard tracks. You can clearly see the vast numbers of Grinstein SD70MACs in storage here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108112 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 974 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF There were quite a few C44-9Ws in storage in Donkey Creek Yard in Gillette, WY at the time of this photo. Those included a smattering of Warbonnets, or "Pink-bonnets", as some refer to the now-faded classic ATSF scheme. BNSF 649 is one such example, sitting at the head of a string of 100+ units stored on one of the yard tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108111 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 1070 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Got Power? With the decline in coal and downturn in the economy thanks to COVID-19, a lot of power is now in storage on Class 1 railroads. Case-in-point is Donkey Creek Yard. BNSF has roughly 500 units stored here. Mostly SD70MACs and C44-9Ws, but some others thrown in to the mix as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108110 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Gillette Energy Park Gillette, WY 956 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Burlington Northern If only this engine could talk! A throw back to older times, and a tribute to Burlington Northern. This GE U30C was built in January 1972 and spent many years as a work horse for BN. Unlike most old units that end up scrapped and turned in to tomorrows razor blades, this unit was spared the torch and is now on display for all to see in Gillette Energy Park. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108090 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Antelope Mine Converse County, WY 932 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This is an aerial view of one of 11 coal loadouts found in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. This particular loadout is the Antelope loadout, the southern most loadout in the Powder River Basin. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108089 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Antelope Mine Converse County, WY 912 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF One of three trains starts to make its away around the balloon track, ready to proceed underneath the tipple at the Antelope Mine and load up. Two other empties will have to wait a bit longer for their turn to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108067 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1047 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Here is a real sign of the downturn in the economy thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic! North Yard has far more yard tracks open than it has filled right now. One of the tracks (the one that is mostly tank cars with some white covered hoppers at the end) is the end of a train. The MNYNP is about to depart for North Platte, NE and Bailey Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108066 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A pair of SD40-2s, saddled with switching duties, come to a stop on the "third rail" in North Yard near the yard office. A GP48-2 and another SD40-2 sit on an engine track a few tracks over. The relative lack of cars in the parking lot at the yard office is an indication of the slim economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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