Photo ID: 110767 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele to Plain (MP 21.8 to MP 24.0) Arvada, CO 161 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At the base of Coal Creek Canyon, a UP manifest rolls east with six units on the head end. This is, indeed, the only regularly scheduled manifest that UP still runs on the Moffat. It runs three times a week (each direction) between North Yard in Denver and Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110766 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 142 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A Phase 3 SD70M is second out on UP's MGJNY (Manifest, Grand Junction, CO to North Yard, CO). In general, locomotives are not tagged by graffiti...unless they've spent some time in the LA or Houston area! A small amount of tagging is behind the cab on this particular SD70M. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110765 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 182 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 9811 is leading UP's MGJNY, currently stopped in the siding at Plain to allow the westbound Zephyr to pass by. UP 9811 was originally a C44-9W. However, the unit has been converted from DC traction motors to AC traction motors and it is now designated as a C44ACM. Rebuilding older units is the way Class 1 railroads are moving, rather than buying new Tier-4 compliant units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110764 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele to Plain (MP 21.8 to MP 24.0) Arvada, CO 172 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr snakes its way west through the S-Curves just west of Tunnel 1. Around the bed ahead, the train will face an approach (yellow) as a long UP manifest...too long to fit between switches, waits in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110763 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak With Amtrak's Phase 7 paint scheme being the new official scheme moving forward, the days of predominately silver long distance trains is, to an extent, coming to an end. The silver Zephyr rolls west through Eisele (Clay) on a July morning. The big question is what will happen to the Superliners? Will they continue to roam the rails in the Phase 4b scheme, or will Amtrak also turn them blue and red (with some white) in a type of Phase 7 scheme? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110762 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 140 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak This is something of a "go to" shot for me in the mornings as, during this part of the climb to Big Ten, westbound trains are technically headed geographically east, creating great light. AMTK 72 leads a standard Zephyr consist on this particular morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110761 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 159 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On a very hazy July morning, the Zephyr makes its way west on the main at Rocky, approaching little Ten Curve. The haze in the area is due to (common-in-summer) forest fires currently burning in Oregon and North California. Unfortunately (as far as the smoke goes), the winds are calm and there is no rain in the forecast, so haze it is. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110760 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 195 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 704, sporting one of the most popular paint schemes in railroading (the Warbonnet Scheme) is the second unit on this eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver. The Warbonnet does have an order battery cover behind the cab. This component is compatible with all like models, and is frequently changed out. Also of note, half the nose has just be straight up repainted in red. Regardless, the unit still looks mighty good, nearly 30 years after the BNSF merger. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110759 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 183 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of C44-9Ws, one in Heritage 2 paint and one in the Warbonnet scheme, lead two ES44ACs as this eastbound manifest approaches the switch to the old Chem Spur. The spur has now been out of service for about a decade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110758 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 172 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF On an extraordinarily hazy day July day, an eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver makes its way through Barbara's Gulch, four units on the head end and two DPUs bringing up the back. The train had been tied down in the siding at Rocky since the pre-dawn hours, but a relief crew finally came and got it. The haze, incidentally, is primarily due to summer forest fires to the northwest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110740 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS024 (East Plain) Arvada, CO 134 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A transition sleeper, two regular sleepers, a diner, a sightseer lounge, and three baggage cars (the middle of which is a baggage/coach car) make up the morning westbound Zephyr as it heads down the main at Plain. This is the first time in well over a year that I've seen eight Superliners on the Zephyr. Hope it becomes a regular thing! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110739 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele to Plain (MP 21.8 to MP 24.0) Arvada, CO 153 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak I am hoping to get pictures of all the P42DCs (that haven't been scrapped) on Amtrak's roster before they are eventually retired. I was happy to find AMTK 37 leading the westbound Zephyr just west of Eisele (Clay) as it is one of the ones that I had not yet seen/shot! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110738 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS022 (West Eiesle (Clay)) Arvada, CO 122 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 37 and AMTK 15 lead the Zephyr west on the main, approaching a clear (green) signal at the west end of Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110737 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 130 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr heads west on the main at Eisele (Clay). Interestingly, the Zephyr has eight Superliners this morning! There is a third coach on the train. For many years before COVID, this was the standard on the Zephyr. Since COVID, it dropped to seven. Is this a one time thing, or a sign that demand has picked up and Amtrak is adding supply to accommodate? Time will tell... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110736 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, July 18, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 163 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A pair of Phase 5 P42DCs lead the westbound Zephyr out of Tunnel 1. Amtrak is actively working to repaint their fleet of P42DCs in their new Phase 7 scheme. No doubt, in just a few years, catching the Zephyr (or any long distance train) with Phase 5 P42DCs will be the focus of every railfan as Phase 7 because the dominant scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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