Photo ID: 105037 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 1, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS902 (UP Junction) Denver, CO 1489 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific A relatively new SD70AH is third out on this days MNYNP (Manifest, North Yard to North Platte). The SD70AH weighs 7,000 pounds more than a standard SD70ACe. The "H" in SD70AH represents "Heavy". UP ordered these units (with their extra steel) to put down more weight on the rails and increase their tractive effort. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105036 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 1, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS902 (UP Junction) Denver, CO 1802 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Kansas City Southern I always enjoy running across a Kansas City Southern unit. I think it may be due to the fact that KCS has managed to endure through all of the mega-mergers of the last 20 years. While railroads like SP, CNW, and Conrail have fallen, KCS has persisted. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105035 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 1, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS902 (UP Junction) Denver, CO 1392 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific A quartet of units, including a borrowed Kansas City Southern AC4400CW, lead up the daily MNYNP. This train departs out of North Yard in Denver and run to North Platte, NE. This manifest (and its counterpart), are typically the longest manifests that UP runs in to and out of Denver. In this shot, the train is approach UP Junction at the east end of the Belt Industrial Lead. The train will swing north and join with the Greeley Subdivision for the first leg of the journey north to Cheyenne, WY. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104845 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed DS 902 (UP Junction) Denver, CO 1675 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load approaches UP Junction on the Belt Industrial Lead. With a fresh crew, the train will briefly enter the Greeley Sub before heading east on the Limon Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104347 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 1516 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific An Xcel Energy coal empty comes across the Belt Line headed for North Yard under somewhat glorious, partly cloudy skies. With Xcel Energy making a push to move from coal to natural gas, the days for these hoppers may well be numbered. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104346 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 1637 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific After knocking down a Diverging Approach (yellow over red) signal at Broadway, this train is headed for Utah Junction where it will continue in to the yard on a restricting signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104345 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 1560 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The Belt Industrial Lead (or simply "Belt Line") was used by Rio Grande to interchange with Rock Island and Union Pacific. Now, it is used by Union Pacific for all coal loads headed north or east out of Denver. Or, as in this case, coal empties coming in from the north or east. Manifests use the Belt Line as well, but coal trains are certainly more common. This coal empty is approaching Broadway and the line in to North Yard. The highway in the background is I-25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104344 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP B2.0 Denver, CO 1875 (4 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific UP 7709 is pulling an empty train of coal hoppers out of Xcel Energy's Cherokee power plant. This is a scene that, supposedly, will not be reproducible by the end of 2014. Xcel is in the process of converting the Cherokee plant to run exclusively on natural gas. Once complete, UP will be losing a major coal customer in Denver! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104343 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 23, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP B2.0 Denver, CO 1629 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific After picking up a train of empty coal hoppers at Xcel's Cherokee Power Plant in northeast Denver, the crew on this "Public Service" train is headed for North Yard. Upon arriving, swing power will be added as well as power to the rear end and it will depart west for the Energy Mine on the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103552 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 23, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS902 (UP Junction) Denver, CO 1697 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The MNPNY is nearing the end of its trip from North Platte to North Yard. The train has just entered the Belt Line (from the Greeley Sub) at UP Junction. It is passing underneath Brighton Blvd and the BNSF Brush Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103232 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 19, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS900 (Broadway) Denver, CO 1905 (5 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific Okay, who notices something a little strange about this particular picture. Something odd about the power on this loaded coal train. The four units on the point? Well, that is a little unusual? More unusual is the fact that there is an SD70M in the consist. That SD70M has DC traction motors...something that you almost never find on coal trains in the 21st century! The SD70M was added in Grand Junction, although for what reason, I'm not sure. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102984 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 15, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 3 Denver, CO 1749 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey It is a beautiful morning as the Ringling Brothers "Red Train" rolls through Denver. The circus was just in Colorado Springs (ending the night before) and the train is passing through Denver on its way to Las Vegas, NV. It will be back in Denver at the end of September and beginning of October, when the circus is actually in town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102983 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 15, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 3 Commerce City, CO 1901 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Two Union Pacific units lead up the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Red Circus train near the east end of the Belt Industrial Lead. The crew quarters are up front on the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102893 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 8, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 2 Denver, CO 2406 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Ski Train For the first time (to my knowledge) and for the last time, the Ski Train crosses over the South Platte River on the Belt Industrial Lead. Shortly it will curve north and head up the Greeley Sub toward Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102892 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 8, 2009 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 2 Denver, CO 2673 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Ski Train Rio Grande lettered equipment passing over a Rio Grande lettered bridge! Just as 5371 did 14 months earlier (to the day), the Ski Train passes over York Street on its way out of Denver. 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