Photo ID: 113067 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande A good overview of what little remains of UP's (and, before that, Rio Grande's) Burnham Shops in Denver. This was taken near the south end of the yard, looking north toward the 8th Avenue Viaduct and the main engine maintenance facility. On Valentine's Day, 2016, Burnham was closed. Some shop personnel were offer transfers to North Platte, NE. Others were offered "golden parachutes" to retire. Still, others were just let go. 5-10 years from the date of this shot, this same perspective will likely show a brand new stadium for the Denver Broncos. It is said the stadium will include a retractable roof with the hopes of attracting the Super Bowl. The Broncos current stadium, Empower Field, which opened in 2001, is visible in this shot in the distance. Look for the orange and blue in the top-left quadrant of the shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113066 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 45 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande In this shot, you can clearly see the pit for the turntable that was actually in use at Burnham up until it was closed in 2016. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113065 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 43 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The 8th Avenue viaduct was constructed well after the main engine maintenance facility at Burnham, so the viaduct had to curve around the south side of the building, only a few feet away. It sounds as though the Denver Broncos are going to get a new stadium build on these grounds, so it is likely that the 8th Avenue viaduct will be demolished. Time is also running out for the engine maintenance building as well. It is the only building (as of the taking of this picture) that hasn't started (or completed) demolition at Burnham. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113064 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 47 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Part of a large transfer crane still stands on its rail tracks at the former Burnham shops. You can see Downtown Denver in the distance, only about a mile and a half away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113063 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 39 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande Rubble from part of the car shop is still waiting to be hauled away from the former Burnham shops southwest of downtown Denver. In the bottom-right corner, note that you can still see a little bit of rail (actually three-rail; both standard and narrow gauge) in the concrete. This was once inside a the car shop facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113062 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 44 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande This shot shows where Rio Grande main car maintenance facility was once located. The pit with weeds growing in it once had a transfer table to shuffle cars around. The building, some of which the rubble is still visible, is where Rio Grande took great care to maintenance the passenger cars on the Rio Grande Zephyr (along with many others) for years. Now, it slowly fades into history. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113061 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 44 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande The remnants of one of the buildings that was once located here at Burnham lays on the ground next to a bulldozer, the last remaining scraps waiting to be loaded onto a truck to be hauled away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113060 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 47 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande With demolition of the former yard at Burnham, the main engine facility is just about the only building still standing. Virtually every other building on the property has now been torn down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113059 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 36 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific, Rio Grande On Valentine's Day in 2016, Union Pacific closed the Burnham Shops in Denver, permanently. This had been Rio Grande's main diesel and car repair facility in Denver, separate from North Yard. The rails have long since been pulled up, and the property has been sold. It sounds like the Denver Broncos will be getting a brand new stadium, built on this location! As such, a demolition crew has started tearing down the buildings. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112310 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Martin Yard (Utah Railway) Helper, UT 254 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Rio Grande I cam across this pretty cool billboard on the western outskirts of Helper. Cars coming into town on US-6 from the west can clearly view the billboard from the road. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112055 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River Green River, UT 252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande The former yard at Green River, small though it once was, has now been largely converted into a dirt maintenance of way and storage area for Union Pacific. A couple of oil Rio Grande signals and several other control boxes sit in the quite morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111996 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 306 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rio Grande A look at the end of this very old Rio Grande tank car located near the east switch of Eisele (Clay). There are two reporting marks that have clearly been hand written on the car: DRGW X-2901 and DRGW X-2906. I'm not sure which is correct, if either of them! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111995 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 311 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rio Grande Near the east switch of Eisele (Clay) is this very old Rio Grande tank car. It is now partially buried as it has most likely been here for at least a century. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111641 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 275 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak, Rio Grande A Rio Grande Ski Train sticker has been applied to the sides of the nose of both AMTK 75 and AMTK 146, the current power on the Winter Park Express Ski Train. A nice homage to the Rio Grande and Anschutz Ski Trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111458 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 15, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO 348 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Union Pacific, Rio Grande It is only a little past 2pm, yet it feels as though we are only minutes away from sunset, even though sunset is still several hours off. The short days of December along with the high Colorado Rockies to the west result in very short days. Basking in the afternoon sunlight is the UP Colorado Springs yard job, sitting just north of the Colorado Springs depot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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