Photo ID: 108199 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Lake Adams County, CO 1110 (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 979 (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: 108194 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 15, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 964 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Following on the heals of UP's only-remaining eastbound manifest is this BNSF Provo-Denver. The MGJNY is meeting the Zephyr at Rocky and the Provo-Denver here will be taking the siding at Eisele (Clay) to meeting the Zephyr. It is currently snaking its way through the S-Curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon, on the approach to Blue Mountain Road. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108152 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Northport Bridgeport, NE 881 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF A pair of manned SD70ACes help shove on the back of this eastbound coal train as it leaves the Valley Sub behind and starts on the climb up the Angora Sub toward Alliance. The sole DPU on this train is an SD70MAC. A bit of a special catch these days as the majority of SD70MACs are currently in storage around BNSF's system. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108151 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Northport Bridgeport, NE 805 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Valley (BNSF) BNSF After receiving a pair of manned helper to help with the climb to Alliance, this BNSF coal load is swinging around the wye from the Valley Sub (coming from the Powder River Basin) to the Angora Sub to continue its journey east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108150 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Northport Bridgeport, NE 802 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Valley (BNSF) BNSF A pair of SD70ACes swing around a leg of the wye at Northport from the Angora Sub to the Valley Sub. There is a loaded coal train that needs manned helpers to assist in the 30 mile trip (climb) from Bridgeport to Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108149 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bridgeport Bridgeport, NE 816 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF, Union Pacific A rather interesting view looking straight down on the diamond in Bridgeport, NE where the BNSF Angora Sub (single track) crosses over the UP South Morrill Sub (two tracks). The two tracks to the right are transfer tracks between the UP and BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108148 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bridgeport Bridgeport, NE 888 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad South Morrill (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF Bridgeport, NE is the location of a lot of railroad action most days! BNSF's Valley Sub joins in with the Angora Sub here. A wye allows trains coming off the Valley Sub to turn north toward Alliance or south toward Colorado and the Brush Sub. In addition, UP's two main track South Morrill Sub cuts through the scene, crossing the Angora Sub on a diamond. In this shot, a UP coal empty heading for the Powder River Basin (in the foreground) heads west as a BNSF coal empty, also heading or the Powder River Basin (in the background) heads west as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108147 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bridgeport Bridgeport, NE 799 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad South Morrill (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF There is a fairly substantial car maintenance facility located in Bridgeport, NE. The facility is owned and operated by Progress Rail. It connects with UP's South Morrill Sub on one side and BNSF's Valley Sub on the other, offering services for either railroad. As you can see, open hoppers are the primary thing maintained at this facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108146 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 928 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF In the main classification yard in Alliance, BNSF has about 500 units stored, most of which are C44-9Ws or ES44ACs (CitiRail leasors). Tack on another 100 or so units, most of which are SD70MACs, on one of the tracks on the engine maintenance facility side of the yard. This string of units brings the total number stored in Gillette, WY, Edgemont, SD, and Alliance, NE to somewhere around 1,300! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108145 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 918 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A sole BNSF SD40-2 makes a reverse move in the yard at Alliance to pick up a few cars for switching on the far side of the yard. A manifest sits on one of the yard tracks, ready to depart, just waiting on a crew. A ton of surplus units also sit in storage throughout the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108144 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 904 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While BNSF does have a fairly large classification yard in Alliance, NE, it has a huge locomotive maintenance facility here. Most, if not all, of the major locomotive maintenance items required on engines in the mid-west are handled here in Alliance. In the days of Burlington Northern, this was the largest engine maintenance facility on the railroad. A good chunk of BNs units were maintained here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108143 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 928 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX After finding about 500 units stored in Gillette, WY and another 200 units stored in Edgemont, SD, an additional 500 or so units are currently being stored in Alliance Yard in Alliance, NE. About 300 of the units are visible in in this long lens shot. Nearly all (if not all) of the CitiRail leasor ES44ACs are currently here in Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108142 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 989 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX You may remember that a lot of gray and blue CitiRail leasor units showed up on BNSF a few years ago, when BNSF was encoutering a power shortage. Well, unfortunately, due to the currently economy, BNSF now has the opposite problem! A major surplus in power. Most of the Citirail units are currently being stored on a single, seemingly endless track in the Alliance Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108141 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 914 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF has a pretty substantial yard in Alliance. This dates back to the Burlington Northern days, when this was one of BNs largest midwest yards. Due to a downturn in the economy, the yard is actually not all that full. Many of the yard tracks either have empty hoppers or power stored in them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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