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Friday, June 27, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS038 (West Cliff)
Boulder County, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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With partly cloudy skies, the scene here at Cliff had been fluctuating between brilliant light and muted shade while waiting for this westbound coal empty to arrive. Alas, muted shade ended up being the conditions when it actually arrived. UP 6397 is facing a green signal as the train has picked up some speed, the max authorized speed increasing a bit here at Cliff. UP 6397 started life in scarlet and gray as SP 351 in August of 1995, so it certainly no stranger to the Moffat.
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Friday, June 27, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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Tunnel 29 (MP 36.4, 75 ft)
Boulder County, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Amtrak
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This location is something of a classic on the Moffat, as the Zephyr wraps around the tight curve on the approach to Tunnel 29, the shortest tunnel in the Tunnel District at only 75 feet in length. My dad has a shot of the Rio Grande Zephyr, with DRGW 5771 leading, from roughly this same perspective. Note the slight discoloration in the rock by the final Superliner, This used to be Tunnel 28, but was daylights decades ago due to cave-ins.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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Crescent (5,550 ft)
Boulder County, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Rocky Mountaineer
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Too many trains and not enough track! This eastbound BNSF oil train was in the siding at Crescent, but could not fit between switches; the end of the train was hanging out the west end of the siding. Plain, Eisele (Clay), Rocky, and Leyden were all unavailable for a meet, so both the Rocky Mountaineer and the Zephyr came up to Crescent. The Zephyr got a restricting signal to follow the Mountaineer down the main. With the oil train finally able to depart east, the Rocky Mountaineer is now starting to pull to the west switch, as the Zephyr is stopped, waiting for the Mountaineer.
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
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Kevin Morgan
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Longs Peak (7,685ft)
Boulder County, CO
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Front Range (BNSF)
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BNSF
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Around 20 years after BNSF first unveiled its "New Image" or "Swoosh" paint scheme, you can still find Heritage 2 units on the rails. Indeed, here are two such units, both rear DPUs on the trains heading away from each other at the south end of the siding of Longs Peak. The siding of Longs Peak was actually built around 2004. Prior to that, there was a 60-mile gap between the siding of Broomfield and North Yard (in Fort Collins). Most trains could not fit on the relatively short siding at Boulder, so the introduction of Longs Peak help move traffic on the line.
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