An AC4400CW and a pair of ES44ACs lead a coal load west on the mainline at Rocky. Even though it is not yet 3 o'clock, the train is just minute away from shadows with the low setting sun.
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Friday afternoon rush hour traffic is starting to pick up on CO-93 as drivers are likely oblivious to the westbound BNSF coal train passing beneath them.
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The only westbound coal load you can find on the Moffat is approaching the narrowest part of Barbara's Gulch. This train was loaded at the Spring Creek Mine in Montana and is heading for a power station in Valmy, NV.
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At first glance, it might appear as though all three of these BNSF GEs is sporting the Heritage 2 scheme. However, the third unit is indeed wearing the New Image scheme. The sun is catching the yellow stripes just right to make it difficult to recognize!
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BNSF's Spring Creek Mine, MT to Valmy, NV coal load is starting the real climb up the Moffat as it heads west through Barbara's Gulch.
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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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