Photo ID: 100610 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Palmer Lake Palmer Lake, CO 1998 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Palmer Lake is not quite as high as it usually is, but the east shores of the frozen lake make for a nice foreground for the Denver to Barstow train heading south in the background. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100609 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Spruce Larkspur, CO 2276 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Spruce marks one of three locations on the Joint Line where ownership of the two main tracks changes between UP and BNSF. BNSF 4479 is just moving down into "the sag" as it changes from BNSF-owned track to UP-owned track on main one. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100608 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 43 Larkspur, CO 2650 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Sometime, when you are out on the Joint Line, you can get lucky enough to get a southbound and a northbound in the same shot. Such was the case on this day as BNSF 4479 (on the former ATSF grade; main one) "meets" with a northbound manifest (on the former DRGW grade; main two) just south of Larkspur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100607 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 43 Larkspur, CO 2174 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF If you are familiar with the bridge on the southbound track still labeled "Santa Fe" to this day (just south of Larkspur), then you know right where this picture was taken! The covered hopper visible just behind the box car is just coming over that bridge. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100606 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Dickerhoof Curve Castle Rock, CO 2137 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Under hazy thin clounds, BNSF 4479 south makes its way through Castle Rock. Another half mile down the road, and the train will be running parallel to I-25 and its Frontage Road for the next five miles on the way toward Larkspur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100605 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sedalia Crossover Sedalia, CO 2562 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Sedalia marks the location where the two mains change ownerships. BNSF 4479 is passing the crossover between the two mains as it moves from UP-owned track to BNSF-owned track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100604 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Walnut Street Denver, CO 2155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Southbounds headed ofr the Joint Line will often request a track warrant when they are at Walnut Street. Walnut Street intersects with the tracks directly underneath Auraria Parkway, just barely east of I-25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100603 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 29, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Walnut Street Denver, CO 2331 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF The MDENBAR-29 (Denver to Barstow, left) is slowly heading south on Main 1 while a southbound coal load sits without a crew, tied down in the siding just north of Walnut Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90010 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 6 Englewood, CO 1772 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF About 10 miles remain on its 10,000 mile journey! The hydrotreater on board came from Italy and is destined for the Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City. This was the last I saw of this train as it was getting late in the day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90009 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 12 Littleton, CO 1788 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF The Westinghouse Electric Corp Schnabel car doesn't even come close to fitting on the bridge over US-85 in Littleton! Make you wonder if the cars on US-85 even gave a second thought to the rather unusual load... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90008 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 18 Littleton, CO 1918 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF At Titan Road, the train carrying the hydrotreater is in the home stretch on its long journey! It has taken the train 19 days just to run from Houston to Denver. Not a simple operation by any stretch of the imagination! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90007 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 22 Sedalia, CO 1884 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF This shot really puts into perspective the size of this hydrotreater, as well as the Schnabel car used to move it! The hydrotreater weighs 570 metric tons and is 115 feet long. It is also a bit wider than the average load, which is why signals and switch stands had to be (temporarily) removed at points along BNSF during the move. This was the largest item ever unloaded (to date) at the Houston Port Authority! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90006 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 22 Sedalia, CO 1876 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF From a bluff just north of Sedalia, we get a good overall view of this special train. The hydrotreater being moved to Commerce City, CO came from Italy. It was said that the total cost of transportation (ship and rail combined) exceeded $3 million! Close to half that cost was just on BNSF alone. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90005 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 36 Castle Rock, CO 1814 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF By afternoon, this train (which left Monument several hours earlier) has finally reached Castle Rock. Several people watch over the movement of this large load, from inside as well as outside. Somewhat analogous to the "wide loads" you see moving on the interstates from time-to-time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 90004 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 15, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 42 Larkspur, CO 1638 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF This 36-axle "Schnabel" Car was provided by Westinghouse Electric Corp to transport the hydrotreater seen here. The hydrotreater will be used at the Suncor refinery in Commerce City, CO where it will create low-sulfur fuel through heat and pressure. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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