Photo ID: 112169 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 39 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The engineer on the West Local is hanging out in the cab as the conductor walks back along the train, knocking off hand brakes on a strand of 41 gondolas. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112168 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific When I was a kid, I remember seeing "Rail Box" boxcars and "Rail Gon" gondolas. Rail Box boxcars are pretty rare in 2025, but you can definitely still find Rail Gon gondolas. One such example is one of 41 gondolas that have been tied down in the siding at Leyden for the past six months. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112165 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 49 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A GP40N and a GP38N are power on the West Local. This is the first time the West Local has been called in months, save for about a week ago when it came out and picked up half the gondolas being stored at Leyden. Today, it has again been called to come out to Leyden and pick up the 41 remaining gondolas still tied down in storage at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112164 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 51 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After six months of being tied down in the siding at Leyden, 41 gondolas are about to be taken back to Denver by the West Local. The conductor is adding the EOT (End Of Train) device to the end of the string of gondolas. The power for the local is waiting on the main. Note the rust that has gathered on the siding after six months of not being used. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111942 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I rather enjoyed this view, looking down on coal hoppers next to low side gondolas at Leyden. Note the rust that is clearly building up in the gondolas after sitting in the elements with no loads to help protect them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111941 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 6023 and UP 8312 pass the string of low side gondolas that have now been stored in the siding here at Leyden for a little over five months. It would have been great for the dispatcher to have Leyden available today as it would have been the perfect spot for a meet with an eastbound BNSF oil train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111918 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 45 and AMTK 170 lead the Winter Park Express west in early morning light. With the start of Daylight Savings Time, the train gets to Leyden just minutes after sunrise. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111914 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 60 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After receiving authority from DS-378 to proceed by a red signal at East Leyden, and after confirming the authority had been received through PTC on the computer, the Winter Park Express is starting to roll east out of Leyden toward Denver in the final moments of the remaining direct sunlight. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111913 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 68 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Just before the sun dips behind the Rocky Mountains, the eastbound Winter Park Express slows alongside the low side gondolas that have now been stored in the siding at Leyden for about five months. I always love when Daylight Savings Time starts again, allowing for shots of the Winter Park Express in light close to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111912 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak There is a track occupancy on the main between Leyden and Arvada. As a result, DS-378 is unable to get a signal for the Winter Park Express at the east end of Leyden. The train is slowing to a stop so it can get flagged by the red. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111388 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr is right on time at Leyden as it passes by a string of open gondolas in the siding. The gondolas are in long term storage. They showed up about two months ago and the start of October. The question, of course, is how long will they remain? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111387 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 80 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Montana Rail Link, BNSF The Montana Rail Link paint scheme is probably my favorite paint scheme in existence today. Full disclosure, my favorite color is indeed blue, so that certainly creates a bias for me. It is unfortunate that this scheme will soon fade into history as BNSF took ownership of MRL (and all its assets) 11 months ago, at the start of 2024. MRL 4319 will eventually be repainted in BNSF orange. It will also, eventually, have PTC installed as the MRL did not get around to implementing PTC across its system. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111276 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An AC4400CW and a (increasingly rare) "green and cream" SD70MAC bring up the tail end of BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest on the main at Leyden. The train passes by a string of empty gondolas, currently tied down for long term storage in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111274 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It has been a little while since I have seen one of these 25th Anniversary "sticker units". Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and CSX have all created heritage unit. Depending on the railroad, these units are either exact replicas for previous railroads, or artistic variations of previous railroads. BNSF has, to date, not created any heritage units. In 2020 (the 25th anniversary of BNSF), they did release ten of these units that sport the heralds of many of the railroads that ultimately went in to making up BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111273 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ferromex Well, I cannot tell you why, but for some reason, the nose door is missing from this Ferromex SD70ACe! The unit is currently power-shared with BNSF. I cannot help but wonder if the unit is making its way back to Mexico and home rails so the nose - and whatever else might need repairing - can be fixed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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