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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Rocky (7,330ft)
Arvada, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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BNSF
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A trio of similarly-numbered ES44ACs are the power on the Provo-Denver this morning. Alas, the crew had to tie the train down here at Rocky as BNSF's 31st Street Yard said there was "no room at the inn" for the train, despite the crew having nearly an hour left on the clock. So, the train will wait here until a relief crew is available (and space is available in the yard) for the train to continue east.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
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Kevin Morgan
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Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2)
Arvada, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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BNSF
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While meeting its counterpart at Rocky, the crew on this westbound Denver-Provo and the crew on the Provo-Denver were venting some frustrations. Specifically, the crew on the Provo-Denver was unhappy about making it all the way to Rocky, only to have to tie the train down and not make it all the way into the yard. The crew on the westbound here was sympathetic, although they had no specific gripes. Perhaps because they are headed home to Grand Junction.
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