Photo ID: 113673 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A nice surprise on this Sunday was coming across the Espee Heritage Unit in North Yard! I'm not sure when it arrived, but I would guess it was probably on a train like the MNPNY, likely arriving in the dark. The unit has been serviced and will depart tonight on the MNYCY (North Yard to Cheyenne Yard). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113668 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 60 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Union Pacific's MNYGR, which runs from North Yard to Green River, WY, is in Track 8 at North Yard with three units, ready to depart for the Belt Lead and the Greeley Sub. However, UP's DS-378 is waiting for the Zephyr to come through first to ensure Amtrak is not held up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113667 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A sea of orange power is ready for assignment. 19 units, to be exact, have been serviced and are ready to go. At least six of these units will be assigned to a BNSF oil empty that has not arrived in town later in the afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113666 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian Pacific A visitor from the north was hanging out at BNSF's engine house this morning. With the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, the new railroad, CPKC, is starting to repaint its motive power. It will certainly take years, but eventually, this Canadian Pacific paint scheme will fade into the history books. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113665 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 58 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Several units sit near BNSF's engine house on this sunny Sunday morning. The string of four units close to the camera is the power for the Beer Run that will head out to Golden later in the day. The GP40-2 and SD40-2 will serve as the power on the Golden Switch this week. That is the local that runs east out of Golden to switch industries along the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113664 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denargo Wye Denver, CO 66 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots DOTX Was a bit surprised to find this FRA "Office of Safety" inspection car sitting on the old Denargo wye near BNSF's 31st Street Yard this morning. The power, a UP unit, was uncoupled and parked a few hundred feet away. I am guessing that the inspection train will depart Monday morning. The Denargo wye connects BNSF's 31st Street Yard and UP's 36th Street Yard. About 15 years ago, it was upgraded to welded rail and the one grade crossing on the line was upgraded. Ironically, with UP now using 36th Street only for local preparation and storage, and not for classification, the wye is never used. This is probably the first piece of equipment that has been on the wye in months, if not year. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113663 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF At the south end of Rennicks yard, BNSF's Denver-Laurel manifest is pulling north on the "New North Main" through Fox Junction. The train is quite long today, coming in at over 8,000 feet in the length. While the head end is over here at Fox, the tail is still in the yard over at 31st Street. The train is starting to pull up toward Utah Jct to clear up for the Zephyr, which is ready to head west (but currently blocked). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113478 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 119 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A UP yard crewman just started up the prime mover in SD40-2 #1957. It is taking several minutes for the unit to fully warm up and, as a result, a lot of white exhaust is currently being produced. Also of note in this shot in UP 1019, a GP60. For whatever reason, UP seems to utilize GP60s in California and Texas quite a bit. They don't show up in Colorado all that often. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113476 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific While waiting for the morning Zephyr, I got a shot of this C44ACM sitting near the fuel tracks in North Yard. This unit was originally a C44-9W, but UP rebuilt and converted it from DC traction motors to AC traction motors. The unit also sports UP's newest paint scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113475 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 129 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Like most Class 1 railroads today, Union Pacific has a lot of older units in long term storage. Many of them, including dozens of SD70Ms, are currently stored at 36th Street Yard in Denver. The units are waiting for one of three things. To just be reactivated and put back in service, to be rebuilt and put back in service, or be sold. Until one of those three things happens, here they will sit quietly and wait. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113474 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 145 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer's SD40M-2 pulls the newly lettered GP40-3s as the Canyon Spirit through the yard at 36th Street. You can see the Mountaineer cars in the distance on the track they lease from Union Pacific. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113473 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 36th Street Yard Denver, CO 143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rocky Mountaineer With the expansion of the Rocky Mountaineer next year, running from Denver to Salt Lake City (with layovers at Glenwood Springs and Moab), the two GP40-3s have been re-lettered for the Canyon Spirit. The change was made in the UP car shops at North Yard. Here, the Mountaineers leased SD40M-2 is taking the units back to 36th Street, where the Mountaineer's equipment is stored. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113399 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 180 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, Santa Fe Classic Santa Fe blue and yellow units are, of course, becoming increasingly rare in 2025. So, I was really happy to nab this shot of a BNSF GP39-2 (still painted in "Yellowbonnet") with a former-Santa Fe SD45-2B sitting in North Yard in the distance, waiting to be moved to Iowa. BNSF 2854 is switching some intermodal cars around at Rennicks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113398 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 174 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX One of the more interesting units to have ever existed! B-units were tried by various railroads at various times since the introduction of diesel-electric locomotives. Such units have a prime mover and traction motors, but simply lack a cab. This means they can only be controlled when they are in a consist with another unit (or units). EMD never produced an SD45-2B (seen here); rather, Santa Fe did a conversion program themselves that removed the cab from eight SD45-2s, creating B-units. I am not sure exactly what the reason was for doing this. If anyone reading this caption is aware of the reason, feel free to leave a comment! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113397 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 177 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SPTX This unit and this paint scheme really take me back to my childhood. As a kid of the 1980s, I remember seeing a few SD45-2Bs when my dad would take me out train chasing. It was really cool to see ex-ATSF 5703 here in North Yard, waiting to be moved to Iowa, hopefully for restoration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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