Photo ID: 106710 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 27, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1217 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Here is a train that does not run all too often! This is a unit potash train that originated on the Cane Creek Sub in Utah. It is headed for the Hull Avenue Yard in St Paul, MN. The train is taking the siding at Leyden for a meet with the westbound Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106644 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1062 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Weeks before the Moffat maintenance project began, a work train loaded with ties came along and drop off piles of ties along the rails. Today, with the ties ready to be replaced, these guys are picking up the ties and loading them onto a platform so they can be taken to the specific spot they are needed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106643 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1167 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific During the UP maintenance blitz on the Moffat, not only is the mainline getting some TLC, but sidings are as well. A crew is working to replace ties on the siding at Leyden. As you can probably tell, the tie replacement on the main is already completed and fresh ballast has been laid as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106642 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1064 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific One of the many, many gangs currently working on the Moffat are in the siding at Leyden. Another gang is getting ready to head west out of the siding at Leyden. And the headlight from yet another gang is visible on Big Ten Loop! The light is near the top and to the left of the image. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106641 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1128 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A string of 12 units sits on the siding at the east end of Leyden. The crew tied the train (well, engines) down and was picked up by an eastbound coal train. I am unsure where the power was coming from or where it was headed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106602 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1152 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This picture is a little bit like the book game "Where's Waldo"! Can you spot the train is the scene? A westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest is holding on the main at Leyden. You can see his headlight toward the lower-left quadrant of the image. The train is waiting for the Zephyr to run around it through the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106577 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1175 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load rolls slowly down the main at Leyden, meeting a military train that is already on the siding. The coal train will stop not too far ahead to check out the rail. There have been reports of trespassers in the area and it turns out they placed rocks and railroad spikes on the rail head! Fortunately, the debris was spotted and removed. I actually spoke briefly to the conductor and it was believed the train could have easily derailed had the debris not been removed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106504 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1588 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It used to be common place to find coal train tied down in the siding at Leyden From 1997 to 2003 or so, the chances of finding a train tied down here were greater than finding the siding empty! However, when the Bypass tracks were built connecting the Moffat to the Belt, this increased capacity in Denver and reduced the need to for trains to tie down here. Then, around 2005, the citizens that live around Leyden petitioned the City of Arvada to prevent UP from parking trains here for extended periods (due to the noise and the diesel exhaust). Not sure if any ordinance was passed, but UP stopped using Leyden on a regular basis for tying down trains. If tying down a train was necessary, it was done at Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106503 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1494 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The standard three units, all of which are a little older, are cut into the middle of the "Public Service" coal train in the siding at Leyden. The units are remote controlled from the engineer in the lead unit, typically mirroring the lead units. The engineer has the option to fence off the DPUs, however, and control them independent from the headend. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106502 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1375 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) XLCX, Union Pacific The hopper cars that Xcel Energy uses for hauling coal are pretty cool cars. In addition to being hoppers (meaning they can be emptied through doors in the bottom), they are also equipped with rotary Couplers so the cars can be rolled on their side while remaining on the track and coupled to the car ahead of and behind them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106501 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1486 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This ET44AH has been hanging around the Moffat, running on coal trains for several weeks now. Kind of nice to have the newest power running on coal trains. The ET44AH is Tier-4 emissions compliant and can be pretty easily distinguished from its ES44AC cousins. The radiator is a bit boxier and comes to more of a point at the top. There are also four equal-sized radiator intake grills, unlike its cousin. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106500 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1420 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A trio of near-matched UP GEs leads the eastbound "Public Service" coal load in the siding at Leyden. I say "near-matched" because the lead unit is an ET44AH whereas the last two are both ES44ACs. Close enough! It is also highly unusual to see a coal load on the Moffat with anything other than two units on the point. This particular train is longer than most on the Moffat though. It is 115 cars and nearly 6,900 feet long. It would fit in the siding at Leyden with less than 200 feet to spare. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106499 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Looks like this coal load found some snow drifts on its way out of the Colorado high country. Sure, there's no snow on the ground here in the Denver area, but there's no shortage of it in the mountains. And extreme high winds (70 MPH+) in parts of the mountains no doubt helped to bury the tracks in places. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106490 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1555 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Not a bad consist at all on this BNSF Provo-Denver manifest. Two C44-9Ws, an ES40DC, two ES44C4s, and an SD70MAC. At least EMD got a little bit of the action. The train is slowing to a stop in the siding at Leyden. Here, it will have to wait for a couple hours as there is currently "no room at the inn" in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106489 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1619 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, BNSF I'm always happy to grab a shot of a Kansas City Southern unit in Retro-Belle paint! This SD70MAC looks pretty sharp in the red/yellow/black paint job. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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