Photo ID: 107536 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Highway 72 Arvada, CO 1446 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific The West Local slowly backs across Colorado Highway 72, shoving covered hoppers back toward the aggregate plant at the far north end of the Rocky Flat Industrial Lead. This is the only customer UP still has west of Denver (on the east side of the Continental Divide, anyway). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107535 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Highway 72 Arvada, CO 1265 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific It is not too often that a train rolls over this grade crossing! This stop light is protected the West Local as is backs up across CO-72, about a mile from the mainline at Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105460 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Flats Jefferson County, CO 1882 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Helm Leasing The West Local slows in preparation for hooking on to a trio of covered hoppers, loaded with aggregate by Texas Industries Inc. Note that the second hopper is of Chicago Northwestern heritage. For several months, the West Local was not running. Apparently, flood waters had caused some damage along the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead. Texas Industries thought UP should repair the track and UP thought Texas Industries should. Consequently, the local stopped running and, during that time, Texas Industries trucked their aggregate to Loveland and loaded it on BNSF. It appears that the tracks on the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead has been repaired (although I have no clue by whom) and this is the third week the local has run since restarting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105459 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Flats Jefferson County, CO 2328 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Helm Leasing The West Local slowly descends down a fairly steep grade at the north end of the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead. The brakeman is standing by to guide the train as it will pick up hoppers from Texas Industries Inc., an aggregate company. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105458 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Flats Jefferson County, CO 1766 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Helm Leasing There was a time in the not-too-distance past that you would have found Rio Grande geeps running on the West Local. Those days are gone now, however, as is evident in this picture. Not even UP units are being used on the West Local right now, as a trio of geeps leased from "Helm Leasing" head north on the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105457 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Flats Jefferson County, CO 1880 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Helm Leasing The Rocky Flats Industrial Lead perhaps looks a little worse for the wear! Lots of rain in 2015 has led to lots of growth. The West Local (currently just light power) progresses north toward the north end of the spur where they will pick up a handful of covered hoppers from the only customer remaining for the West Local to serve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105456 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Flats Jefferson County, CO 1894 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Helm Leasing The West Local is passing by the wye at Rocky Flats. The light power is approaching the grade crossing that once led to the Rocky Flats plant. If you look, you can see part of a cattle guard in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105455 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Flats Jefferson County, CO 1793 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Helm Leasing A trio of Helm Leasing geeps traverse the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead just west of the location of where Rocky Flats once stood. This is the West Local and it is headed for the aggregate company at the end of the 4-mile-long spur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103896 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2254 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific After completing its work on the Rocky Spur, the West Local is now headed south back toward the main track. On the way back, the train will first have to run through the wye where Rocky Flats used to be located. This will allow the train to back down the Spur out onto the main and head east back to town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103895 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2002 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, SSW It is early September and the sunflowers are in full bloom! The West Local has completed switching at TXI Aggregate and is now pulling up the 6% grade away from the plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103894 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2715 (6 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific I love the classic sound of EMD's 645 two stroke engine! So, when the West Local was getting ready to start pulling on the string of hoppers, I decided it was a good time to make a recording. I was not disappointed and I hope you're not either. Click on the "Hear It" link above to download the sounds associated with this shot of the train throttling up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103893 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2401 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Peekaboo! UP 1482 (ex-SP 7112) peaks out from behind a hill of sand/dirt/aggregate as it prepares to start pulling south. Switching is complete at the TXI Aggregate plant and the brakeman is knocking off brakes. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103892 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2098 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Rocky Flats Industrial Lead (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific The West Local switches out covered hoppers at the TXI Aggregate plant at the north end of the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead. The West Local typically had two geeps until 2003 or so when it went to a standard of three. There was a time when it ran with four! However, now that the Rocky Flats cleanup has pretty well completed, the local is back to just two geeps most of the time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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