Photo ID: 113228 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Yard Minturn, CO 49 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande I sure wish I had had the opportunity to get shots here at Minturn Yard before Tennessee Pass was railbanked by Union Pacific. That railbanking occurred just over 28 years ago, and these rails have been silent ever since. In all likelihood, they will never see another train run on them again. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113227 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Yard Minturn, CO 45 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande We look east in the yard at Minturn, noting a few rocks that have fallen and landed on or near the tracks. You can also see the crossovers that were once used to bring helpers out of the yard and cut them in as mid-train swing helpers on eastbound trains looking to tackle the 3% grade between Minturn and the top of Tennessee Pass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113226 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Yard Minturn, CO 29 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Not unique to the yard at Minturn, but actually becoming somewhat common all over Tennessee Pass, trees have grown up right in the middle of tracks. This small bunch of trees are indeed in the middle of the yard. Of course, it is of little difference to Union Pacific! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113225 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Yard Minturn, CO 34 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande The old engine shop as Minturn Yard looks like it might be used for something else these days. Not sure if Union Pacific sold it or if they are simply leasing it out to someone else. But fencing has been built across a few of the yard tracks in the long-defunct yard at Minturn. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113224 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Yard Minturn, CO 34 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Three decades ago, these tracks in the yard at Minturn would have been filled with power waiting to cut in to an eastbound coal load and help the train up the 3% grade of Tennessee Pass. The rails have now been silent for 28 years as new homes continue to be built in the area. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113223 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 44 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande A look toward the east end of Minturn on Tennessee Pass shows the damage done by a huge rock that landed here on the rails over a decade ago. Of course, there is no reason for Union Pacific to repair the rails here as the line hasn't seen a train now in a little over 28 years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113222 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 48 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Over ten years ago, near the east end of Minturn on Tennessee Pass, two huge rocks ("Lions Head") came loose from the mountain side ahead and landed right in the middle of the right-of-way. Someone (presumably Union Pacific) has since shoved the rocks off to the side of the right-of-way, but the main and siding remain smashed and destroyed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113221 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Minturn Minturn, CO 27 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande At the east end of Minturn, we look through the hole of a dwarf signal that no longer contains a lamp on railbanked Tennessee Pass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113067 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burnham Yard Denver, CO 261 (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 275 (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 248 (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 279 (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 253 (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 266 (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 270 (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.

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