Photo ID: 104677 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1372 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Just for kicks, I decided to shoot this eastbound coal load from the "dark side of the tracks" as it approaches the west switch of Leyden. Experimenting a little with different light angles in an attempt to make "lemonade out of lemons" with the late sun angles and an eastbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104672 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 14, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1622 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This ballast train is headed out the west end of Leyden on a Friday afternoon. It started at Rolla, CO and is now headed west toward Nephi, UT. After running over Soldier Summit, it will most likely run around the wye at Provo and head down UP's Sharp Subdivision. I enjoyed, for the second time in three days, catching a pair of SD70Ms leading a train on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104671 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 14, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1372 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I couldn't resist this shot. Since GE engines very much dominate the once all-EMD Moffat, it is nice to see an SD70ACe make an appearance on a coal train from time to time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104670 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 14, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1478 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After getting held up briefly at Leyden, this coal empty is working hard out the west end of the siding as it crosses over Indiana Street, the bridge still retaining its "Rio Grande" fly lettering. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104612 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 6, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1558 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At first glance, you might think this is a picture of a meet between two trains at Leyden. In fact, both of these trains are westbounds. The BNSF train got to Leyden first and went in to the siding (BNSF 5297 is the trailing DPU on the train). Never did hear why the BNSF train took the siding...perhaps it was simply the dispatcher running his own railroad's train around the competitors. But if that were the case, it seems like the BNSF train may have just been held at C&S Junction about seven miles to the east. The world may never know for sure! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104611 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 6, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1571 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF While the final destination of these cars is, naturally, very different, it is interesting that many of them are likely destined for businesses in the Salt Lake City vicinity. Why is that interesting? Because the cars on the train on the left are being hauled by UP while the cars on the train on the right are being hauled by BNSF! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104610 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 6, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1619 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific BNSF's westbound HLINPVO (Lincoln, NE to Provo, UT manifest) only made it as far as Leyden before coming to a stop at a red signal. While stopped in the hole, UP DS-86 ran the MNYRO (North Yard, CO to Roper, UT manifest) around the BNSF trackage rights train on the main. Here, a trio of GEs lead said manifest as they approach the rear BNSF DPU. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104609 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 6, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1635 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific On a rather dark and gloomy morning, UP's westbound MNYRO (North Yard, CO to Roper, UT manifest) hits the main at Leyden on a clear signal. Back in 2005, the MNYRO and the MRONY frequently ran with SD70Ms. It seems that, as time has marched on, it has become easier for UP to just use extra AC (coal) power on the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104570 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 24, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1434 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Facing the "wrong way", UP 8338 brings up the rear of an eastbound coal train at Leyden. The train has a clear shot to Bypass 2 where the mid-train swing helpers will be cut out and the next crew will take the train east to the plains of Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104569 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 24, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1289 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific While coal trains on the UP are still dominated by GE (AC4400CWs, C44AC-CTEs and ES44ACs), EMDs are starting to appear more and more lately in the form of SD70ACes. Being an EMD guy, it is a great thing to see (and hear). An example was this (rather grungy) SD70ACe, acting as the sole DPU on the end of an eastbound coal load at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104568 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 24, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A trio of GE mid-train swing helpers, including two ES44ACs and an AC4400CW, pass the photographer. All three will be cut out of the train in Denver and the train will continue east in a 2x0x1 configuration. Of note, the third DPU here (UP 6315) started life as SP 269. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104567 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 24, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1145 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This view has changed pretty significantly over the course of the last 15 years. The neighborhood to the left ("Five Parks") was built just shy of 15 years ago. Back when the Rocky Flats cleanup project was underway, it was not uncommon to find a string of covered hoppers tied down on the house track. Out of the frame to the right stands Ralston Valley High School. It was built in 2000 to facilitate the growth in Arvada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104515 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1563 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I really like the shot looking down toward the west end of Leyden. In the distance, you can see the hoppers that are welded to the rails on the side of Big Ten Curve. Interestingly, I just shot UP 5895 (the trailing unit) three days earlier on the point of an eastbound coal load! This train came from Kinder Morgan in Houston, TX and is headed for the loadout at Energy. Somebody is going to have a little hostling of power to do in Phippsburg. Energy Mine does not have a balloon track, so the power on the tail end when the train arrives becomes the lead power when the train departs! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103741 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 20, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 2024 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Happy Birthday Amtrak! Phase I and Phase II Heritage P42DC's lead the Zephyr at Leyden. The Zephyr is running about 3 1/2 hours late this morning, about 90 minutes of that due to a Vice Presidential Motorcade. VP Biden was in town and his motorcade route traversed I-25 over the tracks. Consequently, the Secret Service wasn't allowing any trains under the bridge. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103740 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 20, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 2431 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound California Zephyr has a special treat on this Friday as two of the four Heritage Units are on the point. AMTK 156 (Phase I) and AMTK 66 (Phase II) lead nine Superliners under partly cloudy skies. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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