Photo ID: 113820 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield to Louisville Louisville, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) RPCX A look at the passenger side of RPCX 804, an F7A that is on its way to the Inland Northwest Railroad Museum in Reardon, WA. This is one of 35 F7As that have managed to avoid the scrapper and have been preserved out of the 3,856 originally built (2,393 F7As + 1,463 F7Bs). That's just under 1% of F7s, just under 1.5% of F7As that have been preserved. Anyway, the F7A was the 84th "car" in BNSF's HDENLAU this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113819 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) RPCX BNSF's Denver-Laurel has a special piece of equipment in the consist today! This F7A, which has changed hands through several different railroads in its 73 years, is headed for the Inland Northwest Railroad Museum in Reardon, WA. Hopefully, once there, it will eventually be restored to its originally Spokane, Portland, and Seattle paint scheme. In the meantime, it was nice seeing it as a "car" 84 cars deep in the consist of this 8,700-foot train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113818 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 6159 and BNSF 9298 lead BNSF's northbound Denver-Laurel (HDENLAU) this morning. The train is passing by Church Ranch "Lake", which dried up years ago and has really just been a field for quite some time. It is an overcast day ahead of a fairly substantial storm moving into the area. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113817 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Church Ranch Lake Westminster, CO 52 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A pair of units lead a 8,700-foot Denver-Laurel manifest through Westminster on BNSF's Front Range Sub. The train just passed through a Form B. You can see the "yellow/red" board on the side of the track, which indicates the Form B starts a mile to the south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113816 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) RPCX It's rather incredible to think that there was a time many decades ago when F-units were the start power on freight trains, and would have been common place in locations such as here at the north end of North Yard on the BNSF Front Range Sub! This F7 was delivered to the SP&S in 1953, and is now headed back to Washington to the Inland Northwest Railroad Museum. Hopefully, it'll be restored in its SP&S paint. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113815 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Utah Junction Denver, CO 53 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) RPCX How is this for a rare catch! An EMD F7 with Minnesota Zephyr livery is headed to the Inland Northwest Railroad Museum in Reardon, WA. The unit was delivered to the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway in 1953. It then, of course, went to Burlington Northern's roster after the merger in 1970. BN sold it to the Cadillac and Lake City Railway, which then sold it to the Colorado and Eastern Railway. It then wound up in the hands of the Minnesota Zephyr in Stillwater, MN, a tourist operation. That operation ended in 2008, and the unit went to the San Luis and Rio Grande. Finally, the unit was sold (or donated) to the museum in Reardon and is making its way there on BNSF's HDENLAU (Denver-Laurel), seen here by UP's North Yard. The unit is now number RPCX 804. RPCX, incidentally, is the Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113811 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 4, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Denver, CO to Laurel, MT (daily) manifest sits at alongside Rennicks Yard on the New North Main, looking at a red signal at Utah Junction. The crew has received their warrant, and is just waiting for a UP train to clear the diamond so UP DS-378 can get them a light to cross the diamond and proceed north toward Cheyenne and beyond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113783 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 24, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Norfolk to Cheyenne Albany County, WY 53 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Although today was devoted to chasing UP 4014 on its trip from Rawlins back to Cheyenne, you gotta take advantage of other shots as they present themselves! While the steam train was prepping to make a reverse move out of the frame to the left, BNSF's Denver-Laurel manifest passes underneath UP's Greeley Sub. Something on the train sparked a couple of small fires along the right-of-way, one of which you can see burning off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113687 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berthoud Larimer County, CO 51 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Clouds have really started move in this afternoon as this BNSF's Denver-Laurel heads north of Longs Peaks toward the town of Berthoud (and points beyond). The train is making good time, and shouldn't have to stop again until reaching BNSF's North Yard in Fort Collins. There, it will drop some cars for the Great Western Railways, and likely pick up others. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113686 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF At the north end of Atwood Street, BNSF 4112 and train curve to the east and leave the (pseudo) street running behind. The entire track layout throughout Longmont is likely one of the reasons BNSF runs as few trains as they do on the Front Range Sub. There are dozens of grade crossing, lots of switches, and tight curves. Trains have to move very slowly through here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113685 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Atwood Street Longmont, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 4112 is throttling up, putting on a bit of a show on Atwood Street in Longmont. With the train nearing the north end of the street, it can increase its speed a bit. It would be pretty fascinating to live on Atwood Street. Most of the time, a relatively quiet residential street. But, every once in awhile, an iron giant comes rolling down the middle! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113684 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Valmont Boulder, CO 52 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A slightly different perspective of a northbound, sporting a trio of Heritage 2 Dash-9s, as the train rolls by the Hillcrest Reservoir (foreground) and Valmont Reservoir (background) in Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113683 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield to Boulder Boulder, CO 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Denver-Laurel manifest crosses over North 75th Street on the east side of Boulder. The fact that the Front Range Sub carries very little through traffic these days definitely works to the benefit of this northbound. It is the only train on the line for at least a 230-mile stretch! From Denver to beyond Wheatland, WY! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113682 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Broomfield to Boulder Boulder, CO 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF Just (timetable) north of Louisville, this northbound BNSF manifest has crested the top of one of several hills along the line, and is currently headed downgrade toward Boulder. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113681 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 12, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Broomfield Broomfield, CO 63 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF About ten years ago, BNSF moved both the north and south switches of Broomfield. Both are now further north than they previously were, eliminating two grade crossing between switches, including the very busy Nickel Street grade crossing. Now, the siding is basically the same length, but there are no grade crossing blocked when a train is stopped here. This northbound has just received a new warrant, and is pulling across the Brainard grade crossing, which was also relocated at the same time to ensure no grade crossing where between switches on the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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