Photo ID: 108614 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 636 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After meeting an eastbound BNSF manifest and now looking at a clear signal, both P42s on this morning's Zephyr throttle up as they start pulling west, ready to accelerate up to track speed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108613 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 769 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr sits patiently on the main at Leyden as it waits for BNSF's Provo-Denver to clear the west switch at Leyden. The dispatcher has a route "stacked" in to the computer and, as soon as the manifest clears the switch in the siding, the switch will align for the main and Amtrak will get a clear signal to continue west! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108610 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 646 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 30 years ago, Leyden was considered to be "out in the boonies". Now, it is in the middle of suburbia! The Zephyr has the neighborhood of Five Parks on the left side of the shot and some older neighborhoods as well as one of Arvada's four high schools, Ralston Valley, on the right side of the shot. The Zephyr here is stopped on the main, waiting for BNSF's Provo-Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108609 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 655 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak In roughly two weeks, the Zephyr will be returning as a daily train on the Moffat! Until then, it is still a thrice-weekly train. Tuesday is one of the days it heads west, and here heading west on the main at Leyden under gloomy skies. Great to see nine Superliners back in the consist! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108591 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 662 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Compare and contrast! Two C44-9Ws are nose-to-nose and this shot gives a good look at the original Heritage scheme, which was not used for long, and the Heritage 2 scheme, which was widely used on C44-9Ws and SD70MACs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108590 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 636 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The BNSF merger occurred 26 years ago and the original "Heritage" scheme showed up not long after. In 2021, there are still quite a few of these Heritage-painted C44-9Ws roaming BNSF's system. These units are referred to as "Goat Boats". The "goat" refers to the Great Northern railroad, which largely inspired the Heritage paint scheme. Great Northern used a goat in their logo. The "boat" refers to the old nickname of GE engines as "U-Boats" in the 1970s. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108589 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 629 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A GP35 that has undergone a rebuild and is now a GP39-3 is the fourth unit on the Provo-Denver, sitting in the siding at Leyden. The unit is most likely one of the BNSF switchers either at Grand Junction or Provo and is probably due for a 90-day inspection in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108588 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 657 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF One of the many known common phrases in the railroading world is "hurry up and wait". The crew on the Provo-Denver is experiencing that here as they have to sit and wait in the siding at Leyden for a westbound to come out of the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108587 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 637 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver sits in the siding at Leyden facing a red signal. The train is waiting for a westbound BNSF coal empty to come out of Denver before it can continue in to the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108581 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 641 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The few-remaining Warbonnets still roaming the rails are in pretty rough shape! BNSF 630 is one such example. Other than the patch on the cab, this Warbonnet never wore the BNSF livery. And now, as you can see, the long hood has largely been repainted silver. Still, if it has to be repainted, it is nice that BNSF matches the silver rather than just painting it orange. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108577 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 16, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 738 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of ES44C4s bring up the tail end of a rather short manifest near the west end of Leyden. The spring snow has stopped, but the clouds remain rather unrelenting. No complaints though as that allowed for some good shots from the north side of the rails here at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108547 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 767 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A bit more than halfway between switches on the main at Leyden, an eastbound loaded oil train weighing over 12,000 tons slowly rolls east on clear signals. The crew on the train, which started their day on the train at Bond, had to add a unit to the train. This, along with the slow speed of the train headed up grade on the west slope, resulted in the crew being on duty for 11 hours at the time of this picture! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108546 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 757 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound oil train roles east down the main at Leyden. This is the first UP oil train on the Moffat since April! The train loaded near Helper, UT and got held up at Bond for multiple hours. There was no rested crew when the train arrived, and then, once a crew was available, another unit needed to be added to the train. UP 8619 was the one added, giving the train five units for the climb up to the Moffat Tunnel from Tabernash. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108539 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 5, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 880 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A longer-than-usual westbound Zephyr meets an eastbound BNSF manifest at Leyden. The Zephyr has pretty consistently been running with six Superliners since COVID has hit. Today, however, it has eight cars. The second-to-last car is actually an Amtrak California car, likely being returned to California after a stop at the maintenance shop in Beech Grove, IN. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108538 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 5, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 767 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF With so few trains running on the Moffat these days, catching a meet anywhere is always nice. Leyden used to see multiple meets every day. Here on November 5, this is only the third meet at Leyden in the last five days, since the start of the month. The westbound Zephyr is meeting the eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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