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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Detector (MP 22.6)
Arvada, CO
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221 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Amtrak
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Generally speaking, in the summer, the skies in the Denver area are clear in the mornings and clouds typically role in from the mountains in the afternoons. In an interesting reversal of the norms, the morning has been overcast and is only now starting to clear a bit before 10am. The head end of the Zephyr passes by the hotbox detector at MP 22.6. The tail end of the train is crossing Blue Mountain Drive.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Rocky (7,330ft)
Arvada, CO
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158 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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BNSF
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Two SD70ACes and an AC4400CW bring up the tail end a loaded BNSF coal train. The train met a Provo-Denver manifest that had no crew onboard at the time. You can see the derail is set in the foreground. The train is tied down and waiting for a relief crew, which is already been called. The train will be headed for Denver in another 90 minutes or so.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2)
Arvada, CO
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167 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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BNSF
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In the narrowest part of Barbara's Gulch, BNSF 8780 leads two other units on a heavy, loaded coal train. When BNSF sends units west on a train to Utah, they typically return to Denver fairly quickly. BNSF 8780 led the Denver-Provo west out of Denver just five days earlier. The train must have made it to Provo, and the unit immediately sent back on a Provo-Denver. With this coal load going to Nevada, it'll probably be a bit longer before this unit is back in Denver.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft)
Arvada, CO
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142 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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20 years ago, when coal was just about at its peak on the Moffat, who would've thought that oil would essentially replace coal as the energy sources rolling on the rails of the Moffat!? While oil trains are nowhere near as numerous as coal was 20 years ago, there still seems to be 2-3 oil trains, on average, every 24 hours on the Moffat. One such example would be this empty, with an ET44AC on the point, approaching the east portal of Tunnel 1.
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