Photo ID: 108670 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 4, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 694 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A quartet of elephant-style units lead UP's MGJNY at Leyden down the main. Note that the second unit out is an SD70M. There was a time, 15 years ago or so, when SD70Ms were common placed on manifest. These days, however, they have become a bit of a novelty, at least in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108669 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 4, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 592 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As UP's eastbound Grand Junction to North Yard manifest approaches on the main at Leyden, another eastbound is visible in the shot. If you look closely, you'll notice a dark (black-ish) stripe running across the mountain off in the distance. This is BNSF's Provo-Denver, following the MGJNY just a few miles behind. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108623 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 611 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Up close and personal! BNSF 5368 sits idling away on a tied down Provo-Denver in the siding at Leyden. The train is patiently waiting for a fresh crew, which will show up in about three hours and take the train in to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108622 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 554 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you've ever heard of someone in the train world referring to a derail (as a noun, not a verb), this is an example of what they are talking about. This type of derail has a single switch point that would align anything that ran through it to derail. This is a form of protection to prevent cars or tied down trains from inadvertently rolling out on to the main track. This derail was installed at the east end of the siding at Leyden about 15 years ago, when coal trains were often being tied down to wait for recrews and/or yard tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108621 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 601 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF From nearly 300 feet in the air, you can get a great perspective of the Moffat at Leyden. If you were to go back 30 years, at least 50% of the houses that you can see in this shot were not there. Indeed, Ralston Valley High School was not there either! It was built right around the year 2000, becoming the city of Arvada's fourth high school. Meanwhile, the Provo-Denver sits in the siding awaiting a recrew. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108620 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 641 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver arrived in the siding here at Leyden almost three hours earlier. The train was tied down and the derail at the east end of the siding was set. A relief crew showed up a few hours later to untie the train and take it the remaining 12 miles in to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108614 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 659 (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 790 (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 674 (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 679 (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 685 (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 663 (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 663 (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 688 (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 670 (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.

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