Photo ID: 114053 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 19, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sulphur to Flat (MP 86.2 to MP 92.3) Grand County, CO 107 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As is typical on BNSF's oil trains, three units lead the train eastbound (with three more DPUs on the tail end). The trailing SD70ACe is kicking doing a slight 1970s GE impersonation, with visible exhaust kicking up. The train is between Flat and Byers Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114052 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 19, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Flat (7,050 ft) Grand County, CO 109 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After meeting the westbound Zephyr, this eastbound oil train is throttling up with a green signal to depart Flat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114036 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 13, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) CSX, BNSF Like all the Class 1 Railroads (except for BNSF), CSX has several heritage units. The CSX units do not make it to Denver very often, so I was glad I had the chance to capture the P&LE (Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad). The P&LE was under the control of New York Central (and later Penn Central) until 1970 when Penn Central declared bankruptcy. CSX ultimately purchased the P&LE in the early 1990s, leading to the eventual creation of the 15th CSX heritage unit, painted at the Waycross shops in 2024. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114035 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 13, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 109 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 3259 crosses UP's Belt Industrial Lead at Utah Junction, getting ready to leave Denver behind to head north on the Front Range Sub to Cheyenne and, eventually, Laurel, MT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114034 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 13, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's HDENLAU (Denver to Laurel) manifest sits on the "New North Main" alongside BNSF's Rennicks Intermodal Facility. This is one of two such facilities in Denver, the other being Union Pacific's by their 36th Street Yard. The manifest will cross UP's Belt Lead at Utah Junction before leaving town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114033 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 13, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 106 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 3259 is on the point of a northbound Denver-Laurel manifest, getting ready to depart north on the Front Range Sub. A UP transfer from BNSF's 31st Street Yard sits on Yard Track 3 in the background. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114025 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 114 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots CSX, BNSF I'm thinking this unit may have recently been rebuilt. Or, at a minimum, was recently repainted. The "Dark Future" on this CSX unit looks darn near pristine as the fourth unit on the BNSF Laurel, MT to Denver, CO manifest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114024 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 132 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Many of BNSF's Warbonnets still exist, and many of them have held up pretty well over the past few decades. BNSF 4717 is a great example, third on the southbound Laurel-Denver manifest this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114023 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 14, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 124 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A relatively short Laurel to Denver manifest just arrived off the Front Range Sub with a bit of a rainbow lineup on the head end, including a Warbonnet and a CSX ES44AC. The train has come to a stop at the south end of Rennicks Yard near Prospect Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114018 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rennicks Yard Denver, CO 121 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF East of Rennicks Yard, there are roughly a dozen or so companies that ship and/or receive via rail. BNSF has a switch job that works six days a week switching cars out for the industries. Currently, a pair of GP39-2s have the task. The units are remote control enabled, so a single crewman is capable of throw switching and uncoupling cars, while controlling the units from his remote pack. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114015 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fox to Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 114 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF I really like the fact that BNSF still has a significant number of units still wearing original Santa Fe or Burlington Northern paint schemes (save for the patching). BNSF 1656 is still wearing cascade green and has its nose stripes as it leads an eastbound local between Fox and Sand Creek. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 114014 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fox to Sand Creek Commerce City, CO 137 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A pair of SD40-2s lead a local coming out of BNSF's 31st Street Yard. The train is crossing over the Denver and Rock Island. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113996 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 8, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 124 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A quick roster shot of the conductor's side of MRL 4306. It is the blue "meat" in an orange BNSF "sandwich" on the Provo-Denver. The train is very short today, so the train has five units on the head end, rather than three on the head end and two DPUs on the rear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113995 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 8, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 134 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Approaching a green signal at the east end of Rocky, DS-78 is rolling the dice a bit on taking the Provo-Denver east to Leyden for a meet with the Zephyr. The Zephyr has already departed Denver, and dispatchers would usually hold an eastbound at Rocky for a meet. Turned out the meet worked out great, with the manifest in the clear in time to not slow down the Zephyr at all. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113994 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 8, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 135 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Montana Rail Link, BNSF I'm always happy to come across a (former) Montana Rail Link unit on a BNSF train. If you are reading this comment and are not familiar, BNSF bought out MRL at the start of 2025. BNSF took over MRL's rail lines and property, including all motive power. The MRL SD70ACes have been shuffled into the fleet, though they never lead, as they are not PTC-equipped. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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