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6/21/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Wider view
Title:  Wider view
Description:  A wider view brings in the trees and the larger scene,
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 5:58:29 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4016(Electric M.U.)
Views:  72   Comments: 0
Just enough
Title:  Just enough
Description:  The light was dipping down below the Front Range by this time, but there was enough glow to get a somewhat OK shot. Denver bound train departs
Photo Date:  10/21/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:48:37 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4017(Electric M.U.)
Views:  122   Comments: 1
City bound
Title:  City bound
Description:  A Denver bound A line train rolls to the next stop
Photo Date:  9/6/2022  Upload Date: 9/27/2022 6:13:28 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4020(Electric M.U.)
Views:  242   Comments: 1
Back to town
Title:  Back to town
Description:  The train we rode to Wheat Ridge returns to the Ward Rd station. Well get back on board, and go back to Union Station. The Front Range is right behind the train. I 70 passes through town here, and quickly starts the ascent into the mountains.
Photo Date:  3/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/30/2023 5:53:55 AM
Location:  Wheat Ridge, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4021(Electric M.U.) RTD 4022(Electric M.U.)
Views:  200   Comments: 1
On the platform
Title:  On the platform
Description:  The train is now at the platform, and well board for the trip back to Denver. They make you get off and wait at the station while the train pulls west of the staton for its short layover. A better option is get off at Arvada Old Town, which has shops and restaurants immdeiately adjacent to the station.
Photo Date:  3/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/30/2023 5:57:47 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4021(Electric M.U.) RTD 4022(Electric M.U.)
Views:  192   Comments: 1
Arrived
Title:  Arrived
Description:  We have arrived at Wheat Ridge-Ward Rd on this G train. It will pull west of the station to change ends and return to Denver after a short layover. There is a lot of residential development going on here, as can be seen in the background, but thus far, not much for restaurants, etc, which will likely come later. Arvada Old Town is a better turning point if you want a bite to eat.
Photo Date:  3/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/30/2023 6:00:46 AM
Location:  Wheat Ridge, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4022(Electric M.U.) RTD 4021(Electric M.U.)
Views:  178   Comments: 1
Dwell time
Title:  Dwell time
Description:  The next DIA bound train is sitting with its doors open aa it exchanges passengers. It will be moving momentarily.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:46:28 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4024(Electric M.U.)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
Peeking out
Title:  Peeking out
Description:  The train led by 4024 now starts to its last stop at DIA, passing the mountains peeking out between a couple of cottonwoods.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:49:00 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4024(Electric M.U.)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
Another pass
Title:  Another pass
Description:  We again passed the shop complex as we approached Union Station, and again I caught some equipment there.
Photo Date:  3/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/30/2023 6:02:32 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4028(Electric M.U.)
Views:  140   Comments: 1
Looks like the South Shore
Title:  Looks like the South Shore
Description:  I had a chance to shoot some of the Denver RTD train while there for some medical consultation in late August and early September. One of the lines I caught was the A line to the airport. This eastbound(to the airport) train was crossing Green Valley Ranch Rd, near where it crosses Pena Blvd. The cars and catenary are strikingly reminiscent of the South Shore.
Photo Date:  9/6/2022  Upload Date: 9/27/2022 6:02:33 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4030(Electric M.U.)
Views:  238   Comments: 2
Undecorated
Title:  Undecorated
Description:  Not entirely. This set has no wrapped cars, and is all in the standard RTD scheme.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 7:00:18 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4032(Electric M.U.)
Views:  89   Comments: 0
And here it is
Title:  And here it is
Description:  The westbound promised by the station sign has arrived, now making its last stop before the airport.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:58:49 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4040(Electric M.U.)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
Watching the platform
Title:  Watching the platform
Description:  The motorman looks down the side of the train as it exchanges riders, the Front Range looking in the distance.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:01:21 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4040(Electric M.U.)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Come on...
Title:  Come on...
Description:  Theres nothing so inviting as a green signal, this one calling to the DIA bound train about to depart Pena Blvd
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:10:29 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4040(Electric M.U.)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
And away
Title:  And away
Description:  The DIA bound train knocks down the signal as it takes to the single track en route to DIA.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:15:45 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4041(Electric M.U.)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Wrapped
Title:  Wrapped
Description:  There are quite a few cars on the RTD that are wrapped with advertising, such as on this Denver bound train approaching the Pena Blvd station
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 5:46:38 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4041(Electric M.U.)
Views:  96   Comments: 0
Coming back around
Title:  Coming back around
Description:  If you stay in one place long enough, youll see the same equipment multiple times. This car for Potenza, a skin treatment, has already done a trip to Denver, and now is on it way back from the airport. Ive been here a couple hours; this is where I came in. I have to start back for home, and want to get some action on the Joint Line on the way. This is the last train Ill see on the RTD today. Ill be back in April for my wifes recheck at National Jewish Health.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 6:17:56 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4041(Electric M.U.)
Views:  137   Comments: 0
DIA next
Title:  DIA next
Description:  The set in the previous photo rolls away from the camera as it heads for DIA. It will be there in about ten minutes
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:53:36 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4043(Electric M.U.)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
Splitting the poles
Title:  Splitting the poles
Description:  The 4043 splits the catenary supports as it accelerates out of Pena Blvd
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:41:39 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4043(Electric M.U.)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
Airport bound
Title:  Airport bound
Description:  An airport bound train arrives at 61st, its lead car wrapped with an ad, as many of them are. This one is a wrap for...advertising.
Photo Date:  10/21/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:52:58 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  115   Comments: 1
Airport bound and maintenance
Title:  Airport bound and maintenance
Description:  Another ad wrapped train approaches as the landscape crew mows the area around the station.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:45:42 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
Mountain view
Title:  Mountain view
Description:  Sorta...the peaks of the Front Range are visible above the train,
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:49:40 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Low and high
Title:  Low and high
Description:  The train is in the station at ground level-actually, about 5500 feet elevation-and were looking at the Front Range, whose peaks top 13,000 feet.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 6:34:09 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
Coming in
Title:  Coming in
Description:  An airport bound train rolls up to the 61st St station.
Photo Date:  10/21/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:55:23 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4050(Electric M.U.)
Views:  112   Comments: 1
Wider view
Title:  Wider view
Description:  A wide angle view of the airport bound train
Photo Date:  10/21/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:57:09 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4050(Electric M.U.)
Views:  111   Comments: 1
First train of the day
Title:  First train of the day
Description:  The morning after I followed UP 4014 to Strasburg, I went down to Pena Blvd on the RTD to get some shots I had wanted to do on my previous trip. I spent a couple hours there, enjoying the interurban appeal of the trains heading to and from the airport. One was arriving as I walked up to the station, and I caught it between the catenary supports.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 5:38:47 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4057(Electric M.U.)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
Framed
Title:  Framed
Description:  Next up was westbound 4057, framed by the catenary supports as it slows for the Pena Blvd stop
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:38:25 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4057(Electric M.U.)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
Head for the mountains
Title:  Head for the mountains
Description:  The 4057 enters the Pena Blvd station to a backdrop of snow covered peaks as it passes the Front Range en route to Denver
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/4/2025 5:42:53 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4057(Electric M.U.)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
Crossing over
Title:  Crossing over
Description:  This Denver bound A line train is crossing Green Valley Ranch Blvd
Photo Date:  9/6/2022  Upload Date: 9/29/2022 5:10:48 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4063(Electric M.U.) RTD 4064(Electric M.U.)
Views:  220   Comments: 1
Closed up and ready
Title:  Closed up and ready
Description:  This Denver bound train is closed up, and ready to head into the city. Time to go get some dinner.
Photo Date:  10/21/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 7:00:02 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4063(Electric M.U.)
Views:  124   Comments: 1
City bound
Title:  City bound
Description:  A Denver bound train approaches the switch for to the westbound track. A truck rolls away to the north on Pena Blvd in the distance. Despite the name, the station here actually has no access to Pena Blvd, which is an expressway here.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:31:08 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4063(Electric M.U.)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Coming in for the stop
Title:  Coming in for the stop
Description:  The train in the previous shot now approaches the Pena Blvd station, slowing for his stop here.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:37:23 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4063(Electric M.U.)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Pena Blvd station art
Title:  Pena Blvd station art
Description:  The airport bound train makes its stop at Pena Blvd, alongside a piece of public art that goes with the station. At night, it lights up and changes color, and is actually appealing.
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 5:54:11 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4065(Electric M.U.)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
Its a wrap
Title:  Its a wrap
Description:  One of the ad wrapped cars leads a train toward Denver
Photo Date:  10/22/2024  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 6:34:08 AM
Location:  Aurora, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RTD 4065(Electric M.U.)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
MP 54s too
Title:  MP 54s too
Description:  An MP 54 was also at the shop near the turntable, though I cant figure why it would be there.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:37:56 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 4173(Electric M.U.)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
Ready for Monday
Title:  Ready for Monday
Description:  A set of MUs waits out the weekend at Gladstone
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:47:57 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 4298(Electric M.U.)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
Edison era MUs
Title:  Edison era MUs
Description:  A train of Edison era MU electrics still lettered for Erie Lackawanna waits out the Labor Day weekend.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:51:55 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 4317(Electric M.U.)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  The yard at Gladstone is full with trains waiting for Mondays rush
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:39:35 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 4344(Electric M.U.)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Headed for Summit
Title:  Headed for Summit
Description:  A Gladstone branch train rolls east from the end of the line to a connection with a Dover train at Summit. The crowd is from the Farewell to the DLW MUs fantrip that ran that day, covering all the electrified lines, and the Boonton Branch behind M&E Alcos.
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:51:09 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4344(Electric M.U.)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Next out.
Title:  Next out.
Description:  This MU train has arrived at Gladstone and will head east as soon as the engineer changes ends.
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:54:20 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4344(Electric M.U.)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
EL MUs
Title:  EL MUs
Description:  Ex EL 1930s era MU cars served on the ex DLW lines out of Hoboken til the mid 1980s. Here we see a set ready to go at Hoboken.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 2:33:50 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4347(Electric M.U.)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
EL 4601
Title:  EL 4601
Description:  The Erie Lackawanna lines out of Hoboken were a time warp, although elsewhere in New Jersey not much had changed either. What made the EL trains special was that, except for some of the U34's, almost nothing had been altered from its EL appearance, where on the PC and CNJ lines there was a lot of painting out of predecessor road names. The trains and stations would retain their flavor til NJ Transit updated the DLW lines a few years later and changed the power distribution system, rendering these Edison era trains obsolete.
Photo Date:  11/13/1979  Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:08 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4601(Electric M.U.)
Views:  803   Comments: 0
Like it never even happened
Title:  Like it never even happened
Description:  A train of ex DLW MU's sits at the end of the line in Gladstone, looking for all the world like EL was going on forever.
Photo Date:  11/13/1979  Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:10 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 4601(Electric M.U.)
Views:  678   Comments: 0
White flags
Title:  White flags
Description:  The Farewell trip ran with the lead cars flying white flags, seen at Gladstone.
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 3:15:28 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4602(Electric M.U.)
Views:  864   Comments: 0
Drumhead
Title:  Drumhead
Description:  The Farewell to the DLW MUs trip carried a drumhead on the last car to honor the sponsor, the NRHS
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 3:23:31 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4602(Electric M.U.)
Views:  529   Comments: 1
Waiting for Alcos
Title:  Waiting for Alcos
Description:  The Farewell to the DLW MUs trip has arrived at Dover and is waiting for the M&E Alcos to tie on so the train can head back to Hoboken via the Boonton Line
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:22:55 PM
Location:  Dover, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4602(Electric M.U.)
Views:  532   Comments: 0
Headed to the shop
Title:  Headed to the shop
Description:  A look at the Pack 406 members and some parents who were on the Morris Park tour, riding the lead car of an MU train, one of the famous LIRR MP 54s. Note the ad for the Long Island Press. It would vanish into history in a few years, overshadowed by rival Newsday, which is still a big player in the New York newspaper market.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:40:05 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 4912(Electric M.U.)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
Morning rush
Title:  Morning rush
Description:  A morning commuter reads the paper on this Penn Station bound train, which is passing over the inlet to Alley Pond Park, with Little Neck Bay in the background. Dad is on an MP 54 this day in 1964.
Photo Date:  11/13/1964  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:52:36 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 4948(Electric M.U.)
Views:  502   Comments: 0
Commuters view
Title:  Commuters view
Description:  Dad liked this spot, and shot the scene often, in all kinds of conditions. Today he got a hint of his conveyance in it, as the car number of the MP 54 he is on shows on the window reflection. This is Little Neck Bay.
Photo Date:  2/16/1965  Upload Date: 4/26/2016 5:15:25 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 4971(Electric M.U.)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
Builders plate
Title:  Builders plate
Description:  The builders plate from the remanufacturer in WMATA 6046. Alstom was/is in the old EL shop at Hornell NY, and has rebuilt many subway cars there.
Photo Date:  12/1/2017  Upload Date: 12/10/2017 3:51:03 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  WMATA 6046(Electric M.U.)
Views:  198   Comments: 0


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