Photo ID: 112099 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rocky Mountaineer The westbound Rocky Mountaineer is has eight cars, testing out expanded service set to being in 2026. The train will be rebranded from the Rockies to the Red Rocks to the Canyon Spirit. The train, for the first time, rolls by the Amtrak platform in Helper on Main 1. Main 2 sits closest to the platform, which has a couple of folks watching the passing train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112098 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Helper continues to live up to its name, even in 2025. A dozen or so units idle away in the lower yard at Helper, waiting for their next assignment. Heavy westbounds, including oil trains and coal trains, still have manned helpers added to them for the 2.15% climb up Soldier Summit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112097 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Helper Yard Helper, UT 102 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A fantastic-looking SD70M, UP 4190, is powered down and rests in the yard. Not sure if it is being stored, or if it simply waiting for some assignment, but it's been awhile since I've seen an SD70M sporting paint quite this pristine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111900 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific This GP40N has a fairly interesting history. It was delivered as a GP40 (not a GP40-2) to Baltimore and Ohio in November 1966 as B&O 3692. It was briefly on the Chessie roster after the B&O and C&O merger, and then wound up on the CSX roster as CSX 6508. CSX then sold the unit to Espee and it changed colors and roster number, becoming SP 7114. Now, it has found new life as it has been rebuilt to GP40-2 specifications, designated as a GP40N. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111899 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A pair of GEs and a GP40N (formerly a GP40-2) sit on the ready track at North Yard. The power is awaiting its next assignment. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111898 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Long gone are the days of switch engines, such as the SW1000 and SW1200. For several decades, units like this (former) GP38-2 are now used in switching and local service. UP 801 was originally built as MP 2301. UP has been rebuilding many older units, but this unit has not yet undergone the the rebuild program. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111897 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 116 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 688, originally MP 2188, was delivered to Missouri Pacific in February 1980 as a GP38-2. Note the lack of dynamic brakes, a feature not uncommon on Missouri Pacific units. UP recently rebuilt the unit, giving it new life, and it is now designated as a GP38N. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111896 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 95 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A couple decades ago, UP had so many units on the roster that they were in danger of running out of 4-digit numbers. Thus, they came up with a new reporting mark: UPY. It stands for "Union Pacific Yard Units". One example is this GP15-1, numbered UPY 618. It was originally a Missouri Pacific unit, delivered in September 1979. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111895 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 116 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A single SD40-2 sits outside the north end of the North Yard engine shop. UP has moved virtually all maintenance to North Platte, NE, so only the most basic maintenance is now conducted here in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111814 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 125 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific There is a smattering of power hanging out in North Yard this morning. A fairly common view for 2025, all-in-all. Off in the distance on the switch lead is a remote switching job. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111648 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 227 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak The Winter Park Express, from which this picture was taken, is pulling across the Buck Lead, departing to the west. The westbound California Zephyr is running on time, and waiting for the Winter Park Express to clear so it can make its reverse move into Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111597 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sterling Sterling, CO 118 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF The setup in Sterling is something of an interesting one. This is the south (west) end of BNSF's Angora Subdivision, which started to the north in Alliance, NE. BNSF does not own any trackage west out of Sterling. For 23 miles between Sterling and Union, BNSF trains run on UP's Julesburg Subdivision. Interestingly, UP does not own any track west of Union, and in fact does not operate any trains west of Sterling. BNSF now dispatches the UP-owned 23-mile stretch of track. UP's Julesburg Sub continues east from Sterling and meets with the UP Overland Route in Julesburg, CO, 60 miles to the northeast. In this shot, a BNSF coal load just had a crew change, and the outbound train is ready to depart west. The track(s) the coal train are on are still owned by BNSF. The track to the right is UP. The BNSF coal load will pull to the west end of Sterling to meet an eastbound coal empty before departing on the 23-mile of UP Julesburg track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111576 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Venango Venango, NE 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SCOX An former ATSF GP7, this old geep is now owned by Scoular Grain and lives in Venango, NE. It switches out a grain elevator located here in town. The unit was originally delivered to Santa Fe as ATSF 2768. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111570 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 96 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado When Rock Island went out of business, their assets were sold off. 45 years later, you can still find some rolling stock in Rock Island blue scheme. I never had the opportunity to shoot this scheme on locomotives, but it is pretty cool to find it on the occasional covered hopper. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111567 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 130 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado The population of Grant, NE is just over 1,100 people. A few of them work for Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Railway, which is headquartered in the town. You can see the shop and fuel tracks here, where OMLX 421 was sitting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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