Photo ID: 108241 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 906 (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 943 (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 846 (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 1259 (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 1477 (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 1454 (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 1648 (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 1548 (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 1664 (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 1581 (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. Photo ID: 106594 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Brush Morgan County, CO 1641 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF If you are a fan of corn on the cob, there is a chance that the last corn you ate came from Colorado! This westbound Q-Train is passing by a corn field in between Brush, CO and Fort Morgan, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106593 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 1529 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Several new trains have appeared on in Colorado in the past year or so. BNSF has started some new intermodal service between the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Coast. There is also a Q-Train also runs to Alliance, TX on the Brush Sub. Here, that Q-Train is just coming in to the town of Brush. The Brush Sub will converge with the Akron Sub (although it will remain the Brush Sub) here in Brush. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106585 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 1784 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's daily eastbound Z-Train passes through downtown Brush, CO. It is here that the Brush Sub swings to the north toward Sterling, CO and the Akron Sub starts, heading east toward McCook, NE. Coal empties will head north on the Brush Sub, while many non-coal trains will head east on the Akron Sub. The California Zephyr also uses the Akron Sub to get two and from Chicago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106584 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Bijou Morgan County, CO 1515 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF Over the last few years, BNSF has sunk a lot of money into the Brush Sub! Most of the sidings between Denver and Brush have been extended by several thousand feet. The siding of Bijou, the west switch of which this Z-Train is passing by, is no exception. The signal is located almost directly beneath a road bridge. BNSF has actually built a whole new siding, named Corona, between Bijou and Wiggins. All-in-all, BNSF has laid over seven miles of new track to extend existing sidings or create a new one. Hudson was extended from 6,146 feet to 15,256 feet. Roggen was extended from 7,048 feet to 14,966 feet. Crest was extended from 7,133 feet to 10,078 feet. Bijou was extended from 7,870 feet to 17,285 feet. As is evidenced by this shot, the Denver-Chicago Z-Train hauls both FedEx and UPS trailers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106583 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bijou Morgan County, CO 1492 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF A westbound coal load, which had been tied down in the siding of Bijou just west of Fort Morgan, has just received a relief crew and is getting ready to head west. Before the dispatcher will align it out the siding, however, the train must wait for a Z-Train and an S-Train (Stack Train). Here, the new conductor on the westbound is on the ground to give the Z-Train a roll-by. Note that there is a little bit of a grade for eastbounds here, climbing up toward Fort Morgan and Brush. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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