Photo ID: 105923 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1563 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National In my opinion, Canadian National has a pretty descent scheme, as far as schemes go. I do find it interesting that they put their website on each engine...not a bad marketing strategy. This ES44DC is second out on BNSF's Provo-Denver trackage rights train, taking the siding at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105922 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1524 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National I have to admit that I was pretty happy about getting this particular shot. First off, I only see a Canadian National unit once every couple years (on average). Second, this is an SD70M-2, the DC version of the SD70ACe. Neither UP nor BNSF bought any of these, making them extremely rare in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105921 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1579 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF It is always fun to see foreign power in Colorado! Particularly foreign power that is seldom seen here in the middle of the United States. BNSF was borrowing a pair of Canadian National units on this particular day. Originally, there were three of the red, white, and black units, but one was pulled off the train in Provo, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105920 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1527 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest has a pair of foreign visitors running on the point! The train, with two Canadian National units on the point, was called in Grand Junction at 7:30am and had a good run east toward Denver. The train is now taking the siding at Leyden (where it will tie down) as there is currently no route in to the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105862 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1568 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver-Provo was very short on this particularly morning. While you cannot see the end of the train in this picture, it wasn't more than about 10 cars back from the last car visible. The great morning light would soon give way to rain, sleet, and snow storms that would stick around for the afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105861 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1407 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Following less than 30 minutes behind the westbound Zephyr was this BNSF Denver-Provo. While a lot of interesting power has been on this train in the last month or so, it was "same old, same old" on this morning! The train will continue west to Rocky where it will meet an eastbound UP manifest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105860 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1664 (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 1473 (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 1507 (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 1449 (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 1663 (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 1404 (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 1479 (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 1438 (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 1430 (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.

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