Photo ID: 105860 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1553 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak I have to admit that I was surprised by the Phase IV heritage unit on the Zephyr. I wasn't aware it was going to be on, and thus I didn't have the settings I wanted setup on my camera. My shutter speed was a little too slow, resulting in a slight blur, particularly on the baggage car. Still, always good to see one of Amtrak's heritage units! First time I'd shot this one in about 2 1/2 years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105859 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1395 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr, running about 30 minutes late, had a slightly unusual consist. First, the train had a trio of P42s on the point. Second, the third P42 was the Phase IV heritage unit! Last, the train was running with an old baggage car instead of one of the new ones. We are also starting to get in to the busier season for Amtrak again, as the train has eight Superliners instead of the typical seven that are on the train in the winter months. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105850 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 25, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1412 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running right on time, the westbound Zephyr meets BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest at Leyden. There was some very good dispatching on this morning at both DS-82 and DS-86 worked together to set up a couple of meets in which both trains arrived within five minutes of one another. In this case, the BNSF manifest had been stopped for less than 60 seconds when the Zephyr arrived. Just enough time for the signal at the west end of Leyden to clear up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105849 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 25, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1361 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After meeting Union Pacific's North Yard-Roper manifest at Rocky, this BNSF Provo-Denver manifest took the siding at Leyden in order to meet the westbound Zephyr. A pretty good morning for this photographer as I saw three of the four manifests that typically run on the Moffat in the course of 45 minutes! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105846 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 25, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1552 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific East meets west at Leyden! The MNYRO (Manifest, North Yard, CO to Roper, UT) sits in the siding as its counterpart glides down the main on a clear signal. What you see here is essentially all the freight that UP moves over the Moffat over the course of 1-2 days! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105819 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1281 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running right on time, the westbound California Zephyr is moving quickly along on the main at Leyden. It has a clear signal at the west end. By the time it reaches the next signal, however, it will be slowing down as there are two UP manifests ahead that need to get out of the way in order to let Amtrak around. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105810 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 8, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1391 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This westbound rock salt train is slowing on the main at Leyden as it approaches a red signal at the west end. A UP manager was riding along with the crew from Denver out to this point. At west Leyden, the manager hopped off the train and DS-86 set up a signal for the train to continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105809 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 8, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1340 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Even though the Moffat has been extremely slow lately, this is one train that has appeared with semi-regularity. This is a Rock Salt train that is headed for Nephi, UT. While it doesn't necessarily run too often, it does seem to be fairly consistent so far in 2016. Plus, these types of trains frequently have SD70Ms on them! Always a plus in my book. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105780 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1336 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF It's been a couple of months since I'd seen one of these CitiRail leasers. About 18 months ago, when railroads could not keep up with all the rail traffic, BNSF leased 100 of these ES44ACs. Now that rail traffic has dropped off, units are going in to storage left and right. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105779 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1416 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After seeing several extremely short manifests in the past couple of days, it was great to see a nice, long manifest. This BNSF Provo-Denver had 97 cars to go along with the four units (in a 3x1 configuration). Just above the cab of the lead unit is Ralston Valley High School. This is the newest high school, although it has been nearly 20 years since it opened. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105778 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1439 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF 30 years ago, Leyden would have been considered to be in a bit of a rural area. Today, however, it is very suburban! There are houses on both the north side and south side, as well as new houses being built to the west. I still love this shot looking straight down the siding to the west end, as an eastbound BNSF manifest (with 97 cars) approaches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105765 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1315 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, BNSF I think the dark blue of the CSX paint scheme contrasts quite nicely with fresh snow on the ground. This ES44AH, and its brother, are taking a BNSF manifest (Denver to Provo) west along with a BNSF C44-9W, which was on the point. The newest CSX logo is an interesting one, is it not? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105764 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1351 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, BNSF A pair of visitors from the east help out a classic Heritage 2 C44-9W on a westbound manifest at Leyden. CSX classifies these units as ES44AHs. They are essentially ES44ACs, but with a few minor differences. First off, they weigh 432,000 pounds instead of 415,000 pounds. They also have software tweaks that, combined with the increased weight, provide for a higher tractive effort at lower speeds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105763 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1325 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Not only has the amount of traffic on the Moffat taken a pretty serious nose dive, but the traffic that is still running has a tendency to be extremely short! Case-in-point is this BNSF Denver-Provo. It is headed west with only 32 cars! 30 tank cars, a covered hopper, and a box car. The CSX units were a nice surprise, though. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105762 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1363 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A fast-moving train and fresh snow are the perfect combination for a nice action shot! The West Local, with a quintet of covered hoppers, is headed west on the main at Leyden, moving at track speed. The power will run around the train at Rocky (rather than backing up the Rocky Spur). With so much fresh snow, the crew did not want a (relatively light) covered hopper plowing the way. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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