Photo ID: 111207 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 492 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Not every day that you see the nose of a spartan cab EMD next to the nose of steam locomotive. For that matter, it certainly is not every day that you'll find a steam locomotive in the middle of North Yard in Denver! UP 4014 is backing down Yard Track 9 to pick up a string of freight cars for the trip to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111206 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 441 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 4014, a 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotive, was built by ALCO (American Locomotive Company) in 1941. After spending 20 years in service, it was retired in December 1961 and wound up at a museum in Southern California. UP reacquired 4014 from the museum in 2013 and moved it to Cheyenne in 2014. It was then rebuilt and once again runs under its own (steam) power. Here, on the final day of a two month tour that covered ten states (Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111205 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 376 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Steam pour out from underneath the 48th Avenue overpass as UP 4014 backs up on the switch lead toward Track 9. Ten railfans are on the overpass, capturing pictures as the 4-8-8-4 steam engine makes its reverse move. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111204 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 450 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 4014, UP 9625, and a half dozen passenger cars back down the North Yard switch lead toward Track 9 to pick up a string of freight cars for the final leg of the 2024 Heartland Tour, heading back to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111203 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 419 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific I cannot pretend to be a steam expert, so I do not fully understand all the ins and outs of where steam is emitted and why. But I also cannot deny just how cool the engine looks as steam is blowing out of it as it slowly rolls on one of the North Yard lead tracks just south of I-70. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111202 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 397 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Perhaps the best shot of UP 4014 I have to date, the engine has just crossed underneath I-70 as it pulls south on one of the south leads for North Yard. The train is going to back into North Yard, specifically into Track 9 to pick up a string of UP freight cars for the journey north to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111201 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 390 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific You can see a lot of railfans (or, at least, steam fans) lining the overpass on 48th Avenue as UP 4014 pulls out of the storage track at North Yard. Soon, it will back down into Track 9 and pick up a string of freight cars for the trip to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111200 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 345 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP 4014 rolls past a crowd of folks gathered near the North Yard office, preparing to departing north for Cheyenne. I love the Colorado flag the steam crew has mounted on the engine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111199 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 300 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific After spending two nights in Denver, UP 4014 is slowly pulling out from one of the tracks near the North Yard office. Imagine a time when a scene like this at North Yard was a daily occurrence! Granted, Rio Grande never had any Big Boys, but the idea of steam moving around North Yard is a fun one. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111198 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 321 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Steaming up! UP's 83-year-old Big Boy steam engine is coming to life. Shortly, it will pull out of this track near the North Yard yard office and proceed north to Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111196 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 370 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific UP's MGJNY has arrived in North Yard. After dropping off some cars in Track 5, the remainder of the train is being backed into Track 4. After clearing in Track 4, the power will wait for UP 4014, sitting back near the yard office, to back in to Track 9. Then, the power here will go to the fuel tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111190 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 299 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound military train was so long, it would not even fit between switches at Rocky! Indeed, the only two sidings between Denver and the Moffat Tunnel that the train would fit on are Rollins and Tolland. The other seven sidings on this side of the divide are all too short. Regardless, the train departs the east end of Rocky, headed for one of the bypass tracks in Denver. There, a relief crew will soon take over, taking the train east on to the KP and across the plains to Fort Riley in Kansas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111189 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 319 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A UP hyrail driver stands well clear of the right-of-way to give this eastbound military train a roll by at Rocky. His hyrail truck sits on the siding at Rocky. Once the very long train is clear of Rocky, the hyrail will get track and time on the mainline to perform a standard day of inspections along the right-of-way. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111188 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 363 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is really great to see all three of these GEs, leading this military train, sporting relatively good paint as they are lined up elephant style. The train here is wrapping through Little Ten Curve near the west end of Rocky. One of the cars on the train has been wreaking havoc with the crew. An air hose keeps coming detached, putting the train in emergency. The train is on the move again here after a 30 minute delay on Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111187 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 348 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In general, most trains on the Moffat do not exceed about 6,000 feet in length. However, there are sometimes exceptions. Such in the case today as a long string of military equipment stretches back nearly 8,000 feet from the head end here at Big Ten Curve, back to well over halfway west through Eisele (Clay). The equipment is headed for Fort Riley in Kansas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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