Photo ID: 111807 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 281 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 75 has, so far, been on every run of the Winter Park Express this season. The second P42DC was originally AMTK 146. However, Amtrak swapped that out and AMTK 59 is now assisting with AMTK 75. The train climbs and comes around Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111806 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 75, sporting Amtrak's Phase 7 paint scheme, leads the westbound Winter Park Express around the outside of Big Ten Curve. In the distance, above AMTK 75, you can actually see the east portal of Tunnel 4. The Winter Park Express runs with a single engineer in the cab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111805 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 262 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The engineer on the morning Winter Park Express throttles up at East Rocky to increase speed a little bit after coming through the west end of Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111804 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 249 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific One of my personal favorite perspective from Big Ten Curve. Three units, lead UP's MNYGJ, the thrice-weekly manifest on the climb around Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111803 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The engineer is throttling up UP 7052, resulting a bit of extra exhaust being kick up as the MNYGJ starts to bit into the roughly 2% grade on the climb to Big Ten Curve. This is the first daylight run of the MNYGJ on the east slope of the Moffat that I have seen in just over a year. The train almost always departs North Yard in the darkest hours of the night. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111802 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 232 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5559 is designated as a C44AC-CTE. It is essentially an AC4400CW that has some computer upgrades that UP got from Wabtec when ordering these units. Many of these units are being rebuilt by UP into C44ACMs, but UP 5559 has not yet had its turn at the shop. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111801 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 268 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 4363 is a Phase 1 SD70M. It was part of the largest single locomotive order at the time, one of 1,000 SD70Ms UP ordered from EMD. Many of those SD70Ms are now in long term storage, but many still roam the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111800 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 276 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Roster shot of UP 7052. Originally built as a C44/60AC, and designed to be upgraded to 6000 HP, it has now been rebuilt by UP and is designated as a C44ACM. After a brief push for 6000 HP in the 1990s, 4400 HP has pretty well become the standard horsepower for the last 25 years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111799 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 247 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific From slightly below track level, we look up at UP's MNYGJ, Manifest from North Yard to Grand Junction. It just about to start continuing the journey west after the westbound Zephyr overtook it here in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111798 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 271 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It would seem that BNSF has successfully captured a majority of the manifest traffic that runs over the Moffat. UP's MNYGJ and MGJNY are, more often than not, quite short these days. Such is the case this morning as the MNYGJ sits in the siding at Rocky with only 30 cars in tow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111797 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 280 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The only westbound manifest UP runs on the Moffat is the MNYGJ. Typically, it departs North Yard in the darkest hours of the night. However, for whatever reason, it apparently departed North Yard late today and took the siding at Rocky so that the Zephyr could overtake it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111796 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 341 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 51 and AMTK 157, running elephant-style, lead the westbound Zephyr through Eisele (Clay) precisely on time, if not a few minutes early. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111795 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 277 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Thanks to the angle of the sun this morning, black and white just felt right for the Zephyr, heading west on the main at Eisele (Clay) right on time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111787 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 261 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 6158 comes around the curve from Blue Mountain Drive to turn directly into the rapidly rising sun as it approaches the west end of Eisele (Clay). If you look closely, one of the tank cars to the left is passing by the silver control box for the hotbox detector at MP 22.6. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111786 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 301 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At the base of Coal Creek Canyon, this eastbound BNSF oil train is emerging from the cut just west of Blue Mountain Drive, the head end now looking toward the grade crossing (and the hotbox detector at MP 22.6). If you look just above the covered hopper, at the tank cars a bit back in the train, you can see the top of the bridge that crosses over CO-72. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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