Photo ID: 110430 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 384 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer overtakes an eastbound UP coal empty that is sitting in the siding at Rocky to allow the passenger train around. The conductor from the coal empty is on the ground to give the Mountaineer a roll by on the way east. It is a very interesting compare/contrast between the EMD spartan cab of yesteryear and the standard GE wide cab of today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110429 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 372 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer GP40-3s (rebuilt from GP40-2s) are fit and ready to go for the 2024 season! The matched paint scheme with the rolling stock looks really fantastic as the train rolls east through a semi-snowy scene at Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110421 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 377 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On this particular morning, Big Ten Curve is pretty close to the boundary between snow on the ground and the ground just being wet. The snow was not able to push much to the east of Rocky overnight. Snow in April in the Denver area is certainly not uncommon, but this late in the season, the accumulations tend to be very low. Makes for a great look as the Zephyr rounds the wind break at Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110420 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 335 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's rather nice that Amtrak has been running these two freshly painted P42DCs on the Zephyr for the past week or so. The irony being that, as great as it is to catch these units now, looking back ten years from now, when the Phase 7 scheme is completely ubiquitous, the Phase 5 scheme will be missed. The Zephyr is climbing the north side of Big Ten Curve in some powdered snow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110419 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 335 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is making the climb up and around Big Ten Curve with a pair of very colorful units on the point. In just a minute, the train will be knocking down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Eisele (Clay) in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110418 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 361 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak As of this picture, Amtrak had repainted three P42DCs in the new Phase 7 paint scheme. Two of them are leading the westbound Zephyr on a cold, somewhat snowy spring morning. The train is rolling a few minutes late, just west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110417 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 18, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 370 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr arrived in Denver 9 minutes late, but ended up departing 1 hour and 45 minutes late. The reason being that AMTK 139 (the second P42DC) developed a mechanical issue. AMTK 142 is a "protection unit" that has been kept in Denver. Essentially, it's a spare unit for just such an occurrence. Three units is a little unusual to see on the Zephyr. Unfortunately, it mean that AMTK 161 (the Phase 1 Heritage unit) was no longer leading. Here, the westbound highballs through Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110416 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 18, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 357 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Two DPUs bring up the tail end of the westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest. The train is headed in to the siding to wait to allow the morning Zephyr, which is running about 1 hours and 45 minutes late, to run around it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110415 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 18, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 332 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 5886 leads the Denver-Provo out the west end of Barbara's Gulch, underneath the CO-93 overpass. The train is running not far ahead of the morning Zephyr. The manifest will actually be taking the siding at Rocky to allow the Zephyr to run around. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110414 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 330 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At the west switch of Rocky, the eastbound Zephyr is reaching the end of a 15 MPH slow order that has been in effect (off and on) since Cliff. The train, moving in and out of partly cloudy shadows, is one has become the standard consist these days, including seven Superliners. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110413 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 342 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The terrain around Big Ten is really starting to green up here at the halfway point through April as we get a bit deeper in to Spring. The evening eastbound Zephyr descends down the grade from Big Ten Loop toward a clear (green) signal at the west end of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110412 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 385 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 54 and AMTK 147 lead the eastbound Zephyr along the south edge of Big Ten Loop. The open hoppers that serve as a wind break are just out of the frame to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110411 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's always great to get a bit deeper into Spring, it is always great to have late running later in the day, allowing for some daylight shots of the eastbound Zephyr as it descends toward Denver. Here, running almost exactly on time, the eastbound Zephyr rolls through the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110410 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detector (MP 22.6) Arvada, CO 326 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Partly cloud skies result in a patchwork of shadows being cast around the area of Blue Mountain Drive. The head end of the eastbound Zephyr is in the sunlight while most of the rest of the train is still cast in shadows. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110409 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 346 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At the base of Coal Creek Canyon, the eastbound Zephyr crosses over CO-72, finding a pocket of sunlight in and area of building clouds that has the foreground entirely engulfed in shadow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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