Photo ID: 111839 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Acequia Douglas County, CO 73 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) CN, CSX, BNSF If you were unfamiliar with the terrain here, you might think this shot was taken somewhere east of the Mississippi! After all, a CN/CSX lash up is rare enough, but it is almost unheard of in Colorado. CN 3368, an AC44C6M, and CSX 3293, an ET44AH, lead the way south on Main 1 in perfect afternoon light on Super Bowl Sunday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111838 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Acequia Douglas County, CO 68 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) CN, BNSF I wanted to get a few shots of this southbound grain train as it is pretty rare to find either a Canadian National or CSX unit in Colorado, let alone seeing those two together! Longs Peak is clearly visible, snow capped, in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111837 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Acequia Douglas County, CO 76 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) CN, BNSF This southbound grain train round the curve from the east edge of Chatfield Reservoir. You can actually get a pretty clear view of the tracks climbing the grade, a slight angle compared to the reservoir wall. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111835 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Englewood to South Denver Englewood, CO 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) CN, BNSF I will certainly admit that, when I set out to take some pictures today, I did not expect that one of the pictures I would capture would be a loaded grain train being led by a Canadian National ET44AC, passing by a Boeing 737-8 MAX fuselage! Yet, here we are at the intermedial signals at Evans Avenue where that exact thing is happening. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111834 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Englewood to South Denver Englewood, CO 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) CN, BNSF Talk about an interesting mix of power! Between these two trains meeting at Evans Avenue, there are four units, each from a different railroad. Only one of which is "native" to Colorado. Of particular interest is the Canadian Nation ET44AC from north of the border and the Ferromex SD70ACe from south of the border! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111833 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Englewood to South Denver Denver, CO 70 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian National This southbound grain train had been tied down at Denver and was originally not supposed to be called until around 5:45pm. However, BNSF changed things up and it was called at 11am! I was up at Crescent when I got the news, and I immediately headed south so i could get some shots of the northern visitor. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110550 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 126 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific I do not have many shots of SD70M-2s, so it is great to pick up one more with this shot. The SD70M-2 was not widely popular, with only 331 being produced between 2005 and 2011. The majority of the units went to Canadian National and Norfolk Southen. None of those 331 units went to western railroads (UP, BNSF, etc). By comparison, over 2,000 SD70ACes have been produced and are still in the EMD catalog in 2024. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110547 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 131 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National CN 8878 makes a rare appearance in Colorado, bringing up the tail end of an eastbound coal load. At first glance, you might (reasonably) assume that this is an SD70ACe. However, it is actually an SD70M-2. Noteworthy as this unit has DC traction motors...something that is almost never heard of on coal trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109189 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 25, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South of Rolla Commerce City, CO 335 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific UP's MNPDV (North Platte to Denver 36th Street Yard manifest) crosses an irrigation ditch that is filled near the brim as it heads south on the main. This irrigation ditch branches off from the South Platte River and ultimate feeds in to Barr Lake along I-76. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109188 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 25, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South of Rolla Commerce City, CO 219 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific Just past the intermediate south of Rolla, CN 2724 and train start to pull south on UP's Greeley Sub mainline. The train has just dropped off a string of autoracks at Rolla, UP's auto transload facility in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109185 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 25, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fort Lupton to Brighton Weld County, CO 224 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific A visitor from the north! This Canadian National C44-9W is spending some time on UP rails, leading the MNPDV (North Platte to Denver manifest) south on the Greeley Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109184 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 25, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fort Lupton to Brighton Weld County, CO 217 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific The conductor on the MNPDV offers up a friendly wave to the photographer, reaching out of a unit rather rare to Colorado. A CN C44-9W (original Illinois Central) is on the point, paired with a UP SD70M for this southbound just south of Ft Lupton. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109183 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 25, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fort Lupton to Brighton Weld County, CO 284 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Greeley (UP) Canadian National, Union Pacific South of Ft Lupton, at MP 23, UP's MNPDV-24 heads south on the Greeley Sub with a Canadian National (originally an Illinois Central) C44-9W leading. The train consists of double stacks at the front and autoracks at the back. There is a lone tank car cut in to the middle of the autoracks, apparently by mistake! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109013 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barr Commerce City, CO 327 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Canadian National The unit second out on this special unit covered hopper train tied down in the siding at Barr is a unit we don't see too often in Colorado. This is an SD70M-2, the DC-version of its far-more-common brother, the SD70ACe. Neither BNSF nor UP have an SD70M-2s on the roster, which is why it is a rather rare catch in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108910 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 281 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Chicago North Western A final look at the old CNW F7A #401 as it rolls east on the hospital train toward its new home in Silvas, IL. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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