Photo ID: 108208 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, June 20, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 986 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 184, the Phase IV Heritage Unit, is making another round trip on the Zephyr. Alas, it is second in the consist as the 20 minute late Zephyr rolls west on the main at Crescent. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108201 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 20 (MP 32.5, 458 ft) Boulder County, CO 801 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Just a few days before the official start of summer, the westbound Zephyr is briefly visible in the Tunnel District as it moves between Tunnel 19 and Tunnel 20. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108200 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS032 (West Crescent) Boulder County, CO 935 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is right on time as it leaves Crescent behind and gets ready to duck in to Tunnel 19. One of the more well-known landmarks that passengers on the Zephyr watch for is Gross Reservoir. The dam is one of the primary water supplies for Denver and currently holds roughly 14 billion gallons of water. As Denver is growing though, there is a project to also raise Gross Reservoir another 131 feet by 2025. This will nearly triple the amount of water in Gross Reservoir, adding 25 billion gallons of capacity, allowing a total of roughly 39 billion gallons of water to be stored. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108072 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 7 (MP 26.6, 214 ft) Boulder County, CO 958 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is between Tunnel 7 and Tunnel 8 in the heart of the Tunnel District on a beautiful May morning. The train is about to disappear in Tunnel 8 and, after emerging, the plains will no longer be visible. Tunnels 1-7 are along the eastern slope of the Front Range of the Rockies, but Tunnel 8 curves the tracks around the northeast face of Elderado Mountain, into the Rockies for the journey west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107415 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 14, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1348 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A UP "crane special" rolls west on the main at Crescent woard the grade crossing. Myself and four other photographers are gathered to get some shots of the rare move. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107190 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1514 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The last Superliner of the westbound Zephyr rolls away from the grade crossing at Crescent. Love how everything in the scene, including the Superliner itself, just screams cold and winter! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107189 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1737 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The lead P42DC of the westbound California Zephyr crosses the grade crossing at Crescent. It is one of the few grade crossing anywhere close to Denver that has not yet had crossing arms installed! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107188 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1803 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It does not get much better than this! Well, at least not if you are a fan of trains and winter. The westbound Zephyr glides west on the main at Crescent as lightly falling snow continues to work at blanketing the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106989 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 13, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Winter Park Express comes around the curve east of the Grade Crossing at Crescent, kicking up some exhaust as it makes it way west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106950 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1603 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On a pleasant January morning, AMTK 193 and AMTK 156 are in charge of the second run of the Winter Park Express as it heads west at Crescent. I've wanted to try this angle for awhile and, other than a couple of annoying power lines that splice through the scene, it isn't all too bad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106341 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1403 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound California Zephyr crosses the grade crossing at Crescent on its journey west. At the time of this shot, the Winter Park Express Ski Train was unloading its passenger at Winter Park. In addition, a westbound coal empty sat on the siding at Rollins, waiting for the Zephyr to pass it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106013 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Highland (1,920ft) Boulder County, CO 2071 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) High Iron Travels The Front Range Explorer rolls past a BNSF local sitting in the (short) siding of Highland not too far north of Longmont, The train is slowing because it is approaching the siding of Longs Peak. There, it will hold the main and meet a pair of southbound manifests. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105248 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1382 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I got myself in to a predicament at Crescent on this Sunday afternoon. I knew the BNSF manifest (in the foreground) would be taking the siding. However, I thought that it would be short enough to fit east of the grade crossing. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case. The train came to a stop on the grade crossing, preventing me from getting to the other side of the tracks to shoot and westbound. Since I couldn't get over there, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons and get a blurred shot of the westbound between tank cars at the grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105247 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1414 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF manifest slowly rolls in to the siding at Crescent to wait for a westbound UP coal empty. There is a grade crossing located near the middle of the siding (located at MP 31.35). The road is Gross Dam Road, so named because it eventually leads to Gross Dam. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105246 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1581 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Utah Railway This Utah Railway probably will not be wearing the classic red and gray Utah Railway paint scheme much longer. It is likely headed to Panama City, FL where it will receive electrical upgrades (being re-designated as a GP40-3) and also a new Genesee and Wyoming (orange) paint scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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