The Winter Park Express is about five minutes late after briefly getting held up at Utah Jct. It is just east of the grade crossing at Kipling Street in Arvada, and the overcast skies still reflect some great colors about 10 minutes after sunrise.
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The westbound Zephyr makes a fairly rare afternoon departure from the Denver area as it is running 5 hours and 15 minutes late. Trying to make up time, the train is moving at track speed parallel to Oberon Road in Arvada. Oberon Lake #1 is visible on the opposite side of the tracks.
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It is a fairly windy morning, meaning it is shaping up to be a relatively mild day, temperature wise. In the meantime, the westbound Zephyr is just a few minutes late as it rolls through Arvada, just west of the detector at MP 8.4. The Denver skyline is in the distance, off to the right.
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This work train went west on the Moffat just over a week ago. It was sent to pick up scrap from a lot of work UP has been doing on the Moffat. Today, it heads back east toward North Yard. These two units are actually on the tail end of the eastbound train.
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UP's MGJNY rolls east through a frozen winter scene in the middle of Arvada. The tracks run through a cut here between 66th Avenue and Carr Street. The train only a few miles to go before arriving at its destination in North Yard.
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BNSF's Provo-Denver passes through some of the upper middle class parts of Arvada on its way in to Denver.
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A pair of Phase 2 SD70Ms lead the Rocky Mountaineer, the premiere passenger train on the Moffat, east through Arvada. Passengers are hopefully enjoying the fall colors here at the lower elevations as the train continues east toward its destination in Denver.
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Fall colors at the higher elevations have died off, but they are just hitting their peak at the lower elevations in the Denver area. The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer, with a pair of UP SD70Ms subbing in for the Mountaineer geeps, glides east down the grade east of Leyden amidst the fall colors. 14,259-foot Longs Peak stands tall in the distance.
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Riding in the last car of a UP Officer's Special would be quite the experience. The car has a full picture window and stadium seating facing out the back to allow full viewing of everything behind the train. Such is the case here as the passenger train approaches the Simms Street grade crossing and, beyond, downtown Denver.
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