Photo ID: 111314 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 284 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A pair of GEs were removed from the tail end of an eastbound loaded oil train on Bypass 2 are headed for North Yard. They will pull west on Main 1 to clear the signal at C&S, then get a light to cross over to Main 2 and the North Yard siding to head back east. In the distance, you can just see the tail end of the westbound Zephyr on Main 2. One additional note of interest...UP 6345 was original SP 296! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111312 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 263 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70ACe is being added to the pair of ES44ACs that are currently on a westbound oil train on Bypass 1. After getting the unit added, waiting for the Zephyr, and performing an air test, the oil train will be ready to head west. In the distance, you can see the tail end of an eastbound oil load that arrived a few hours earlier. That power will be removed from the train before it departs east for the KP. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111311 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 292 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor on this single SD70ACe looks out the window as the unit backs across Federal Blvd on Main 1. The unit will be added to the point of a westbound empty oil train. A few years ago, UP laid off all of the engine hostlers in Denver. These hostlers would make sure power changes like this were done before the road crew showed up. Now, the road crew is responsible for doing all these power shuffling activities before departing the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111310 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 279 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single UP SD70ACe sits on Main 1 just west of the signals at the C&S Junction. Before unit trains (mostly oil trains these days, coal trains in the past) head west on the Moffat, UP frequently will do a little power shuffling. Often times adding a unit to a train that came off the relatively flat plains before it heads into the Rockies. Such is the case here as this SD70ACe is waiting for authority from DS-378 to back east onto the point of a westbound oil train, just barely visible way off in the distance. This shot also demonstrates how long the OS at C&S Junction is. It must be one of the longest anywhere, as it is roughly 1/2 a mile between switches! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111305 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 359 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Bird on a wire? The birds are all lined up to watch the rail action as a remote control UP yard job is switching cars out the south end of the yard, underneath the 48th Avenue overpass. The units are being controlled by a UP employee that is also throwing switches back in the yard. This remote control zone is called "Zone 1" here at North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111303 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 286 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific It has been said that the only thing that is consistent is change. Forty years ago, this shot of the engine tracks at North Yard would have been filled with black and gold Rio Grande power. Thirty years ago, it would have been largely filled with scarlet and gray Espee power. Now, as it has been for the last few decades, it is a sea of UP yellow. At some point in the future, it will no doubt change again. But to what? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111302 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 276 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific An SD40-2 (now SD40N) seems to be having a pretty substantial mechanical issue, and is spewing large amounts of exhaust all over the engine tracks in North Yard. Perhaps it has a blown turbocharger? Whatever the issue, the unit will be shut off and ultimately sent to North Platte, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111301 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 294 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific A GP38-2 sits near the engine shop, which now has very limited abilities to do work on engines. The vast majority of maintenance requires engines be sent to the shops in North Platte, NE. Later in the day, this geep had been moved, so I am not sure if whatever issue(s) it may have had were resolved, or if it would be headed to Nebraska. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111300 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 17, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 323 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific It appears that this SD40-2 (now designated as an SD40N) wishes it had been born as a steam engine a few generations earlier, based on the exhaust it is pumping out! Clearly, there is some sort of a mechanical issue with the unit, and a few minutes later, the unit was shut down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111293 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 407 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single C44AC-CTE brings up the tail end of UP's MGJNY as it rolls along Oberon Road in Arvada. The train is only going about 15 MPH and is actually slowing as the train has a red signal at CP DS007 (Arvada). The train won't quite come to a stop as it'll get a light at Arvada before it gets there. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111292 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 419 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A bit of snow is stuck to the plow of this C44ACM, leading the MGJNY east through Arvada. These three GEs departed with the train the night before from Grand Junction for the trip east to North Yard. For the last few years, this has been the only UP manifest that runs on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111291 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 444 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Akron (BNSF) Union Pacific An eastbound UP MGJNY has just crossed Kipling Street in Arvada, and is continuing east on the final seven miles or so in to North Yard. Snow has been falling all day and continues now, but the relatively warm temperatures (34°F / 1°C) are keeping the snow from accumulating too much on the ground. You may have noticed the above caption is the same as the previous picture. I could not decide which perspective I liked more, so I decided to include both pictures, even though they were basically shot at the same time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111290 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kipling Street (MP 9.81) Arvada, CO 423 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP MGJNY has just crossed Kipling Street in Arvada, and is continuing east on the final seven miles or so in to North Yard. Snow has been falling all day and continues now, but the relatively warm temperatures (34°F / 1°C) are keeping the snow from accumulating too much on the ground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111264 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This open gondola, tied down in a string of over 100 gondolas in the siding at Leyden, seems to contain a but of metal cubes. Not entirely sure what they are, or why they are sitting in a gondola that is being stored at Leyden for an indeterminate amount of time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111263 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 316 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At the start of 2024, UP tied down a long string of empty well cars in the siding of Leyden for long term storage. The cars stayed in the siding for roughly four months. Now, it seems that Leyden is once again host to cars in need of being stored! A string of over 100 gondolas has been tied down in the siding at Leyden for about a month. How long will they remain here? That is anybody's guess! Even when Leyden is not plugged up with stored cars, UP avoid using it for meets. Over the years, the residents of the (new) neighborhoods around Leyden have complained about the noise and exhaust of trains that stop on the siding as Leyden has transformed from rural to suburban. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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