The westbound Zephyr emerges from Tunnel 1 on the journey west as low layer fog is rapidly burning off to the east. You can see the skyline of Denver emerging from the fog.
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The last coach on the morning Zephyr is sporting a wrap advertising a sponsor from last year's Winter Park Express. The train is westbound at the intermedia signal at MP 14.5, just west of Leyden.
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AMTK 40 and AMTK 4 lead a baggage car and seven Superliners on the westbound Zephyr. The train is right on time as it leaves a layer of fog behind alongside CO-72 and Welton Reservoir.
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A temperature inversion has created a layer of fog that is clinging to the ground this morning. The sun is slowly burning it away, and the current edge of the fog layer is about a mile west of Leyden. Here, the Zephyr emerges from the fog in a somewhat eerie looking scene.
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The morning Zephyr approaches at the edge of some low hanging morning fog about a mile west of Leyden.
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Long shadows are cast on the ground on the far side of the fill as this eastbound Provo-Denver heads down the main at Leyden. Most of the homes in this shot are part of "Five Parks", now the fourth-newest major residential development on the west side of Arvada.
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A pair of units bring up the tail end of BNSF's Provo-Denver as the train wraps around the fill and heads east down the main at Leyden toward Denver.
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BNSF 6339 heads away from the camera around the fill just west of Leyden. The train is the middle of the west side of Arvada, but the skyline of Denver is clearly visible in the distance on the right side of the shot.
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A typical pair of units brings up the tail end of the BNSF's eastbound Provo-Denver. Indeed, three units on the point and a pair of the rear is by far the most common configuration for BNSF manifests on the Moffat, whether running east or west. The tracks are on a high point here with CO-72 on the opposite side and the gully on this side.
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Two SD70ACes and an ES44AC lead an eastbound Provo-Denver around the fill west of Leyden toward a clear (green) signal at West Leyden.
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BNSF 9206 leads an eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver east on the Moffat with Welton Reservoir in the background. Welton Reservoir is a man-made reservoir, built in 2001 and 2002 as an additional source of water for the City of Arvada.
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Clouds hang over the Colorado Rockies to the west as an eastbound BNSF manifest glides east on the main between Rocky and Leyden. The quantity of light in summer is great, with early sunrises and late sunsets, but the quality of light in the winter is so fantastic, with low light and long shadows.
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The eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver has several chunks of well-blocked railcars as it rolls east through Barbara's Gulch.
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BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest, with a very common 3x2 consist, heads east through Barbara's Gulch in great afternoon sunlight. In the background is the entrance to Coal Creek Canyon, with Tunnel 1 on the right side.
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UP stations this classic DRGW Jordan Spreader in Phippsburg, CO in the Colorado high country during the winter months, just in case it is needed to open any part of the former Rio Grande in Colorado. It is kept in Cheyenne in non-winter months. Now it is in the siding at Arvada, making its way back to Phippsburg.
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