Photo ID: 108581 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 17, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 666 (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 764 (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 794 (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 787 (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 908 (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 801 (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. Photo ID: 108534 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 2, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 805 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Daylight grows short and shadows grow long on the first Monday after the end of Daylight Savings Time as the MGJNY rolls east on the main at Leyden. With the radical decrease in demand for coal, what little demand there is often runs in blocks on the front of the MGJNY. Such is the case here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108360 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 820 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The population of the Denver Metro area has nearly doubled in the last 30 years, going from 1.5 million in 1990 to 2.8 million in 2020. A lot of the homes for those new residents are evident in this shot, looking north from Leyden where the Denver-Provo sits in the siding. 30 years ago, a good amount of what was visible in this shot would have been rolling hills! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108359 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 811 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After meeting its eastbound counterpart, the westbound Denver-Provo is getting ready to throttle up and depart the siding at Leyden on a clear signal. Not long ago, Leyden was often used multiple times every day for meets. However, with the decreased traffic on the Moffat, this is only the fourth time the siding has been used in July 2020. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108240 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 26, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 742 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) WDTX, Union Pacific It is pretty common to find major summer storms along the Front Range in summer, and today was no exception! A major storm, dumping rain and hail, moves through the southern suburbs of Denver as a single UP SD70M leads an SC-44 Charger headed for Avondale (east of Pueblo) for testing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108239 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 26, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 743 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) WDTX It is entirely possible that you will be seeing a lot of these units in the future! This is a Siemens-built SC-44 "Charger", and it is being proposed as the successor to GE's (now Wabtec's) P42DC. This is already happening on some state-supported routes, such as the Amtrak Cascades route. But Amtrak has a tentative order for 75 of these for use on long distance trains. Amtrak crews are reportedly not fans of these units. They are lighter and have far less protection on the head end, should they run in to something. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108238 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 26, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 900 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A substantial afternoon storm is building to the northwest as UP 4835 leads an Amtrak Cascades SD-44 at the east end of Leyden. The SC-44 was picked up in Florin, CA and it is heading to the Transportation Technology Center just east of Pueblo, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108019 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 919 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As is typical on BNSF manifests on the Moffat these days, this eastbound is composed mainly of tank cars. You might even mistake this train (at first glance) as a unit oil train. However, the lack of a buffer car between the power and the first tank car indicates this is not a unit oil train. Note the hawk hanging out in the tree off to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108018 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 833 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After meeting the Zephyr at Rocky, this eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver rolls on a clear signals on the main at Leyden. A hawk hangs out in the tree to the left, indifferent to the train and likely looking for some breakfast. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108017 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 917 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Get ready for a change when it comes to long distance Amtrak trains! The P42DC fleet is now more than two decades old and their age is starting to show. Consequently, Amtrak has ordered 75 ALC-42s from Siemens. These units, IDTX 4628 and IDTX 4632 are SC-44s being tested by Amtrak on today's westbound Zephyr. They are similar to the ALC-42s, but the ALC-42s will have slightly larger fuel tanks and have some other minor tweaks to improve performance on long distance trains. They are 4,400 HP with 16-cylinder Cummins prime movers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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