Photo ID: 108468 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 5, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Barr Adams County, CO 768 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Just east of the siding of Barr, a westbound BNSF coal load with a commemorative 25th Anniversary ES44AC on the point approaches. The train will take the siding at Barr to meet two eastbounds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108467 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 5, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 800 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 6017, one of several BNSF units being painted in a commemorative 25th Anniversary scheme, leads a westbound loaded coal train by the (extremely low leveled) Barr Lake. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108244 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Hudson Adams County, CO 919 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The Front Range does not see much intermodal traffic, compared to many other parts of the country. However, one intermodal train you can find 5-6 days a week is BNSF's Denver to Chicago Z-Train (and its counterpart). It is the highest priority train in or out of Denver. The train departs Denver in the mornings, typically between 6:30am and 8:00am. The Chicago to Denver generally arrives Denver between 5:00pm and 7:30pm. Here, just east of Hudson, today's Z-Train has a trio of GEs on the point making track speed over Box Elder Creek. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108243 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 963 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The hottest train in Colorado, the ZDENCHI (Denver to Chicago) crosses the fill along Barr Lake after meeting the Zephyr at the siding of Barr. The dispatcher had a great meet set up, and the Z-Train was stopped for less than 15 minutes. I love this perspective as you get water, the plains, and mountains all in the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108242 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 905 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak As the westbound Zephyr skirts the western edge of Barr Lake, several birds fly along the surface of the water and away from the rapidly-moving passenger train. In the distance, you can see Longs Peak, one of Colorado's numerous 14-ers, standing tall in the morning sun. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108241 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 831 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr creates a nice silhouette against the morning sun at Barr Lake. The train is running about 1 hour and 15 minutes behind schedule this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108199 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 877 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Minutes before sunset, two DPUs bring up an eastbound coal empty past the gentle waters of Barr Lake east of Denver on the Brush Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108198 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 782 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Following not too far behind the eastbound Zephyr, this coal empty is moving at track speed, as you can deduce from the slight blur of the lead engine! A few people are enjoying a quite June evening in a boat on Barr Lake in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108197 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 1181 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak For much of the year, the eastbound Zephyr departs Denver after dark. However, in the summer months, there is still a bit of light when it heads east. Here, just days before the official start of summer, the Chicago-bound train is right on time as it passes by Barr Lake, about 18 miles east of Denver Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106875 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 18, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 48th Avenue Denver, CO 1402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A westbound BNSF manifest, led by a trio of Heritage 2 C44-9Ws, approaches the yard in Denver. The train has a diverging restricting signal ahead (red over flashing red) to allow it to enter the yard and leave the Brush Sub behind. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106599 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tonville Lochbuie, CO 1384 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF The Brush Sub dispatcher has done a great job keeping this Q-Train running on clear signals ever since leaving New Hillrose, north of Brush. Here, the three GE units on the head end knock down the signal at West Tonville. The west switch is located nearly a small pond that helps to offer a nice foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106598 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Keensburg Curve Weld County, CO 1564 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF On this first day of fall, the further west I travelled back toward Denver, the thicker the cloud coverage got. When I setup for this shot, the scene was bathed in great lightning. Alas, a cloud blew in and added shade to the scene a mere 30 seconds prior to the arrival of the train! Ah well...the curve at Keensburg still looks mighty fine, even in the shade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106597 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wiggins Wiggins, CO 1481 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF This particular Q-Train that BNSF runs on the Brush Sub is something of a "potpourri" train. The makeup of the train is one of the more interesting ones I've seen. Box cars, covered hoppers, open hoppers, tank cars, centerbeam flats, TOFCs, and COFCs...all found on the same train! Most of the time, intermodal is kept separate from other manifest traffic. Not the case on this Alliance, TX-bound train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106596 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wiggins Wiggins, CO 1579 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Evidence of some of the maintenance that BNSF has sunk in to the Brush Sub is visible lying alongside the right-of-way in this shot. Piles of old wood ties and tie plates are waiting to be picked up by a scrap train at Wiggins. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106595 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Brush Morgan County, CO 1470 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Hard to believe that the GE "Evolution Series" engine (in all its various forms) has been around for nearly 15 years now. And man has it proven to be a popular model! GE has produced of 4,000 units just for BNSF and UP alone! More than 7,000 units have been produced for all North American railroads combined. Here, an ES44C4 leads a westbound Q-Train in between Brush and Fort Morgan. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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