Photo ID: 106804 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1138 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The Denver skyline - and all of the metro area - sits underneath overcast skies that threaten to release a minimal amount of snow. Denver hasn't had more than a trace of snow since October 9th! Meanwhile, a unit sand track (with some borrowed power from BNSF) heads west on the main at East Leyden. The train is headed for the Craig Branch as all the sand is needed for fracking in the Craig area. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106803 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1026 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106802 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 980 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Highball Leyden! A unit fracking sand train charges slowly toward a clear signal as it cuts through Arvada. The train is headed for Craig, CO, Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106715 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 28, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1209 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound MRONY crossing 80th Avenue as it continues east past a green flag. A trio of SD70s lead the train, albeit each one being a slightly different model. An SD70ACe is on the point, followed by a Phase 1 SD70M, and finally a Phase 2 SD70M. The Phase 2 SD70Ms (with their flared radiators) are among my favorite modern engines. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106714 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 28, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1288 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106666 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1068 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The trees in the Denver-Metro area pretty reliably go through their fall color transitions in mid-October. 2017 is no exception as the Zephyr races by a changing Cottonwood tree at the east switch of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106665 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1026 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr crosses the 80th Avenue grade crossing just east of Leyden. The Zephyr is following a line of high level morning clouds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106640 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1293 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Here it is! The last eastbound to run over the Moffat prior to a week of maintenance. The track is already out of service from Rocky all the way to Phippsburg. Work crews are slowly setting on the rails in order to start the maintenance. A lot of ties are going to be replaced through this stretch of track between now and October 8th. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106578 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1112 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After a major dropoff in coal loadings in western Colorado, there has been a bit of a rebound in the summer of 2017. While coal traffic is nothing like it was ten years earlier, coal trains are showing up several a week. During the winter prior, coal traffic was down to as few as one train every 1-2 weeks! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106576 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1181 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106575 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1172 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The Moffat has picked up a little variety lately, with a smattering of unusual trains showing up. Case-in-point is this military train, headed for Yermo, CA. The train is taking the siding at Leyden to meet an eastbound coal load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106574 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1119 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70M leads a westbound train toward the east switch of Leyden. I've always loved this telephoto shot, which you can get from the shoulder of 82nd Avenue. My dad took several pictures from this spot of SD40T-2s leading Rio Grande trains west back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106492 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1334 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak An early California Zephyr kicks up a lot of snow along the main at Leyden as it heads west. The entire train has been booked by a single person or entity, so the train can actually run ahead of schedule without any problem. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106491 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1494 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Finally! A wintery February morning. The first one Colorado has had the entire month this year. The westbound Zephyr passes by the siding at Leyden running roughly 35 minutes early. How can the Zephyr depart a station early? Because someone (a company, perhaps?) booked the entire train. With nobody getting on or off, the train made a quick stop in Denver for a crew change. It skipped the stops at Fraser and Granby entirely. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106460 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1234 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF has picked up some new business in the Salt Lake City area, quite possibly business that UP lost in favor of BNSF. Here, a unit sand train (the third such train in as many weeks) heads west on the main at Leyden with a trio of elephant-style SD70s (two SD70ACes and an SD70MAC) on the point. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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