Photo ID: 111897 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 120 (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 98 (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 121 (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 230 (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 120 (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 113 (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 98 (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 132 (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. Photo ID: 111566 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 184 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado It is really great to see Tunnel Motors finding life after Class 1 railroads. After absorbing Southern Pacific (which, of course, was taken over by Rio Grande), Union Pacific was the only Class 1 railroad with any Tunnel Motors. However, UP shed the Tunnel Motors from their roster well over a decade ago. A former Espee SD40T-2 has been acquired by OmniTrax and has been repainted in the blue NKCR paint scheme. It was not in use on this day, was sitting outside the shop in Grant, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111533 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 112 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Not sure if it is just due the time of year, coming up on Christmas and New Year's, but North Yard is relatively empty at the moment! Most tracks are not anywhere near full, and several tracks are completely empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111532 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 173 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A look at the power currently hanging out around North Yard. Power in the foreground and to the right is for switching and local duties. In the middle, the power is being serviced at the fuel tracks. Off in the distance, several units are ready for assignment on the ready track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111531 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 117 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 1957 is one of two SD40Ns (rebuilt SD40-2s) that are currently serving as switch engines in North Yard. The units are both remote control enabled. A single crew member can throw switches in the yard and operate the train from a remote control box. A couple of panels are open on the long hood, and you can see a bit of the prime mover. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111530 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 144 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific When it comes to older power, only about one third of UP's units were originally delivered as Union Pacific. The other two thirds are a mix of Missouri Pacific, MKT, Southern Pacific, and Rio Grande. UP 1482 was SP 7112 when it was absorbed into UP's roster. However, in this case, it was second hand to SP as well. It was delivered in March 1969 as B&O 3721. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111529 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 117 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific I have seen some tagging done to locomotives before, but this might just be the worse case of graffiti that I've seen on a single unit. The good news is that the unit will likely wind up in North Little Rock in the not-too-distant future for a rebuilt and a repaint. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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