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Saturday, December 16, 2017
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS012 (East Leyden)
Arvada, CO
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1184 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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BNSF
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After spending a few hours in the siding at Leyden, BNSF's yard in Denver is finally read for this Provo-Lincoln manifest. DS-86 had issued a crossing protection order for the grade crossing at Simms Street, but the crossing was repaired and the dispatcher contacted the conductor and was voiding the order right around the time this shot was being taken. Had the order not been voided, the train would have had to come to a stop at Simms Street to have the conductor protected the crossing as the train entered it.
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS012 (East Leyden)
Arvada, CO
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965 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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An oil company (or companies?) in the Craig, CO area have need sand for fracking lately. A lot of it! The MNYPHX had a bunch of loaded cars a week ago or so. And then, overnight, a 113-car, 12,400-ton unit sand train arrived at North Yard. It was rumored the train would go west with a 3x4x2 power configuration. However, the powers that be decided to split the train in two. Here, the first half (51 cars) are headed west at Leyden in a 3x(0)x2 configuration. The rest of the hoppers will go west on the MNYPHX.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS012 (East Leyden)
Arvada, CO
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1217 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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On a chilly, overcast morning, an eastbound manifest (Roper, UT to North Yard, CO) departs Leyden on a clear signal. This train departs from Roper on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, typically arriving Denver a day later.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS012 (East Leyden)
Arvada, CO
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1118 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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It has been more than a decade since UP last ran a military train on the Moffat. They became a little jaded after the last one required four crews to ultimately go nowhere! The story goes that there were some open-top auto racks with Humvees in them. The car department was inspecting the cars to ensure they'd fit through the tunnels while the train was in North Yard. That was the first crew. The second crew was called and the train headed west, but tripped a high-wide detector in Arvada. So the train stopped at Rocky and waiting for the car department, who came out and again measured the cars. A third crew was called to take the train west...but a few of the Humvees were in fact too tall and just scraped the top of Tunnel 10. The train was tied down at Crescent and waited for a fourth crew. The car department let the air out of the tires of the Humvees and the train was able to return to Denver and ultimately go through Wyoming. Needless to say, the military train in this shot has no auto racks on it!
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