Photo ID: 102049 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 8, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1783 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This is not an uncommon view to find here on my website...with one notable exception! Typically there isn't a train actually on the Lafayette Industrial Lead. Burns Junction is the location where the C&S main and the CB&Q main diverged and took their own routes to Longmont. Today, the old CB&Q main on the right only runs as far as Lafayette and only serves a few industries along the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102043 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 17 Broomfield, CO 2047 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Beef! It's what's for dinner (apologies to all you vegetarians!) ... The northbound Valmont coal load, led up by BNSF 5807 and two UP AC4400CWs, passes a field along Brainard Road in Broomfield. A few cows looks on with disinterest as they search for fresh grass to graze on. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102042 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1988 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF An Officers Special, train symbol O-LAUTOP1-04A, head south through the siding at Broomfield with Longs Peak standing tall in the background. The special came down the Front Range Sub from Laurel, MT and is ultimately headed back to Topeka, KS (where it originated a few days earlier). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102041 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1851 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF On Cinco de Mayo, this five-car BNSF Officers Special runs south through the siding at Broomfield, meeting a northbound coal load headed for the Valmont power plant in Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102040 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 16 Broomfield, CO 2237 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This BNSF Officers Special departed Topeka, KS on May 2, ran to Denver, up the Brush Sub and around through Wyoming up to Laurel, MT. And now down again on the Front Range Sub, through Denver, down the Joint Line and back out to Topeka. A quick 4-day run around the block! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102039 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 5, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Broomfield, CO 2288 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The HPASSAG has become a very common train on the Front Range Sub, showing up just about daily in addition to the HLAUDEN and HDENLAU. BNSF 844 is one of the few C40-8Ws to wear the New Image scheme as of this date. The train is about to pass underneath US-36 just south of the siding of Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102034 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 2060 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) EMD Leasing I have heard the question come up in the railfan community how many siding there are that aren't quite parallel to the main. The siding of Broomfield is an excellent example of this! Not only are the tracks not quite parallel, but they actually lay on two different grades. The HPASSAG (in the foreground) heads south on the main while the HDENLAU (in the background) holds on the elevated siding. It will be interesting to see how much this changes with the introduction of commuter trains along here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102033 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 2105 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF This is a scene that will be changing a lot in the next five years! Those buildings in the distance originally housed a company called StorageTek, although as of the time of this photo they were being leased to Sun Microsystems through the end of 2008. ConocoPhillips has purchased the "campus" and will tear down the existing buildings (beginning in 2009) in favor a brand new buildings as part of a new 432-acre training facility. For now, however, this HPASSAG is making its way south on the main at Broomfield. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102032 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 17 Broomfield, CO 1977 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Two southbounds ahead of this train meant its warrants ran out at MP 17, so it had to stop and wait for the train ahead of it to get further down the track. With that requirement completed, a new warrant has been issued and the crew throttles up to continue south. You can always count on GE's to put on a good show when throttling up! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102031 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Junction Broomfield, CO 1997 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Some nice power to be had on the HDENLAU-03. The "BNSF" patch has almost rubbed off the cab of the Warbonnet. And that paint is pretty good by modern Warbonnet standards! Technical problems kept this train is the yard most of the morning and early afternoon, so the crew stopped at Broomfield to wait for a relief crew to take it north to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102030 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield Broomfield, CO 1922 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A few weeks ago, the Longmont Turn power consisted of two Cascade Green SD40-2s. Both of those units must have gone in for inspections because this Yellow-Bonnet SD40-2 and New Image ES44AC are in charge now! The light power is headed down the main at Broomfield. Once in town, it'll pick up cars to take back north to Longmont. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102029 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 13 Broomfield, CO 1960 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The HLAUDEN had some colorful power on this particular day. The second unit has to be just about the cleanest H2 units on the roster! It is one of the few SD75Ms on BNSFs roster to lose its Warbonnet scheme in favor on the Heritage 2 scheme. Meanwhile, it looks like that CSX C40-8W has seen better days! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102028 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 13 Broomfield, CO 2014 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just south of Broomfield, this southbound HLAUDEN is finally on the roll again after waiting for nearly an hour at Broomfield for the HDENLAU to get out of town and into the clear in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102027 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 32.5 Boulder, CO 2358 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just north of Boulder, this HPASSAG (with a rather colorful consist) is getting close to the end of its warrant at MP 25. Fortunately, the southbound ahead of this train will roll up its warrant to MP 17, allowing this manifest to continue without stopping through Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102026 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 3, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Longmont Longmont, CO 2085 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF At Longmont, this southbound manifest is slowly making its way through the street course known as Longmont! Over a 5 1/2 mile section of track, trains have to blow their horn through 17 grade crossing (including the run down Atwood Street). Here, the train is running parallel to 1st Avenue, about to pass underneath the Terry Street overpass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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