Photo ID: 111940 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 60 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A pair of units lead a westbound coal empty at a clear (green) signal at the east end of Leyden. Prior to this train, the last UP coal train I shot on the Moffat was in December 2024. That's not to suggest that was the last one that ran. Only that they are rare enough that I go quite a bit of time in between seeing them these days. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111917 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 63 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Overnight, Amtrak removed AMTK 29 from the Winter Park Express and replaced it with AMTK 45. That unit leads the train as it knocks down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111915 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 51 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The final rays of direct sunlight have left as the sun has fully dipped behind the Rocky Mountains. The Winter Park Express slowly rolls east by a red signal at East Leyden. Yes, the signal facing away from the camera for the train was indeed red when it passed. The train stopped and got authority for the dispatcher to proceed east. The dispatcher could not set up a signal for the train as there is a spurious track occupancy on the main between Leyden and Arvada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111890 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 58 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver leaves Leyden and approaches the grade crossing at 80th Avenue on a very gloomy, overcast Friday morning. The train met the Ski Train at Rocky and now has a clear shot in to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111721 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 83 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak I really enjoy the westbound morning run of the Winter Park Express toward the start of the season. When the train reaches Leyden, such as in this shot, the sun has just barely crested the horizon to the east, just about 20 minutes after sunrise. The glinting sun off the side of the P42s and seven Superliners just cannot be beat! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111720 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 89 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Yesterday morning, thanks to the weather, the Winter Park Express left Leyden in a nice "blue hour" light. This morning, all the clouds have cleared and the Winter Park Express as the Winter Park Express knocks down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Leyden in glorious "golden hour" light. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111283 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 105 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver departs from the east end of Leyden on an Advanced Approach (flashing yellow) signal. Three units lead the manifest by a tree that is still sporting fall colors as a lot of snow falls. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111275 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF manifest knocks down the signal at the east end of Leyden, now in the final 12 miles of its journey from Provo, UT to Denver, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110965 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 138 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Since the Dotsero Cutoff was completed in the summer of 1934, the owner of the line (Rio Grande, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific) ran manifests between Denver and Salt Lake City. That is, until December 2018 when UP ran the last MRONY (Roper, UT to North Yard, CO). Amazing it has been almost six years since then! Now, UP runs a manifest three days a week between Denver and Grand Junction (and back). Here, the eastbound version of the MGJNY is leaving the east end of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110963 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 168 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak With roughly three weeks left in summer, this shot already has a pretty decent fall feel to it, particularly with the sun flowers lining the right of way. The Zephyr just knocked down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Leyden. AMTK 171 and AMTK 170 have been the power on this Zephyr trainset for the past few weeks now. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110892 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific For a couple of years, UP's schedule for the MGJNY seemed to be such that it often arrived in Denver in pre-dawn hours. Sometimes, on the longer days of the year, it might arrive in early morning light. However, something seems to have shifted a bit as it has become more common for it to show up in the mid-morning to mid-afternoon. Here, the manifest rolls east out of Leyden one minute before 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110816 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 2, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 169 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 76 knocks down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Leyden on its morning journey west. The east end Leyden is designated as CP DS012 by Union Pacific (as you can see on the signs by the signals). The "DS" represents "Denver & Salt Lake", David Moffat's railroad that predated Rio Grande. The "12", of course, indicates we are 12 miles west of Denver Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110714 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 142 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver had a clear (green) signal out the east end of Leyden. BNSF's manifest typically have three units on the head end, but today, there are four units leading the train in to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110605 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 139 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In the OS at the east switch of Leyden, two ES44ACs with an SD70ACe sandwiched between them lead the eastbound HPVODEN. After meeting two trains at Rocky, the manifest now has a straight shot the rest of the way in to the yard in Denver. As is extremely common in summer, clouds are forming over the Rockies to the west, and will like come spilling out over the plains this afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110543 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Couldn't ask for better lighting here at the east switch of Leyden as UP's thrice-weekly Grand Junction, CO to Denver, CO (MGJNY) manifest approaches a clear (green) signal. This is the only regularly-scheduled UP manifest train that still runs on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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