Photo ID: 104850 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1655 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Like dramatic weather? The first day of October in 2014 was a good day for it around the Denver area! Crazy clouds hover over this Denver to Provo manifest that happens to have a early production ES44DC. BNSF started to take delivery on the ES44DC in January 2005 (nearly 10 years ago already). Since the "New Image" scheme came a little later in 2005, some of these early ES44DCs were delivered in the Heritage 2 scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104849 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 2302 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A major thunderstorm darkens the eastern sky, making for a nice backdrop against this westbound BNSF manifest sitting on the mainline at Leyden. The train had to stop here for several hours due to a communication failure between the head end and the sole DPU on the rear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104566 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 24, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1537 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The early morning sun tries to break through the clouds and offer some nice light on this coal load, rolling east on a clear signal at the west end of Leyden. Evidence of the healthy snowfall in the Colorado high country can been observed on the plow of UP 5892. Also of interest is the stretch of red frame stripe on the anti-climber! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104471 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 8, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1711 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Sometimes, the best pictures can actually be the ones that don't have a train in them at all! Case-in-point is this shot of rails reflecting the rising sun. The silhouettes of the signals on the main and siding have a cool effect too. Twenty years ago, this would have been "out in the boonies". Now, however, you can also see the silhouettes of the houses built on the north side of the rails (left side of the picture) as part of the Five Parks development. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104469 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 8, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1911 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific These days (and this time of year), I leave for work about 20 minutes before sunrise. As I was on the road, I noticed the eastern sky quickly turning an amazing red color. Clouds were scattered across the sky and reflecting the sun beautifully. I decided to stop off at west Leyden to grab a few shots. By the time I arrived, the red had transitioned in to an amazing orange with yellow splashed in. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104413 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1534 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This rock-filled work train slowly creeps across the Indiana Street overpass just west of Leyden. The train is now in "out of service" limits, meaning the track is not under the control or jurisdiction of DS-86. Instead, the UP foreman in charge of the repair operation has jurisdiction over all trains and MOW in the limits. Switches are all taken in to hand throw and trains and MOW coordinate via radio. For safety, all movements are made at restricted speed, typically around 10 MPH. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104412 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1571 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The devastating floods that Colorado endured the second week of September severely damaged the Moffat Tunnel Sub. Washouts at Rocky and west of Plain, rock slides throughout the Tunnel District and a derailed train near Cliff. The main track was taken out of service between West Leyden and West Cliff (roughly 25 miles) so crews to implement repairs. Here, at West Leyden, a work train filled with rock has just spoken with the EIC (Employee In Charge) of the OOS limits as well as DS-86 to get flagged past the red signal in to the OOS limits. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104198 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 22, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1496 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific More often than not, UP will run manifests with DPUs. So, I was a little surprised to find the MRONY with six units on the point and no DPUs. Here, a single SD70ACe leads a quintet of GE ACs in to the siding at Leyden. Here, it will meet its counterpart and a BNSF westbound manifest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104109 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 2, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1661 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific With a clear signal at the west end of the siding, the MNYRO is charging west. The second unit on this morning was a patched CNW AC4400CW! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104108 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 2, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 2124 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A few minutes after the previous photo was taken, the westbound Zephyr crosses over Indiana Street. The Zephyr was holding in the siding at Leyden awaiting the arrival of the coal load. With trains at Plain and Rocky, the dispatcher had little choice but to run the coal train all the way to Leyden and briefly (less than five minutes) hold up the Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104107 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 2, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1704 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The last DPU on this eastbound coal load crosses over the Indiana Street overpass just west of the west switch of Leyden. The overpass still retains "Rio Grande" in fly letters! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104106 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 2, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1619 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Approaching the west switch of Leyden, this eastbound coal train will be holding the main at Leyden to meet the Zephyr and the MNYRO. The five inches of snow we were supposed to get the night before never materialized. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104088 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 26, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1793 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The MNYGJ on the main was originally set to go west at Leyden but DS-86 asked if they could stop before reaching the west signal at Leyden. The crew said they could and DS-86 took the signal down. Slide fences was the reason for doing so. Slide fences had DS-82's territory a bit messed up so a few eastbounds needed to run before the manifest could continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104087 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 26, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1908 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At the west switch of Leyden, an eastbound (empty) ballast train enters the siding. It was so fantastic seeing a trio of SD70Ms...my personal favorite model EMD has released since the SD40-2. This particular ballast train came from the area around Tunnel, CO (near Grand Junction) and is headed for Cheyenne, probably for a refill! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104052 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 15, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 2341 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At last! With this picture, I finally have a shot of all four Heritage Units leading the California Zephyr. As far as I'm concerned, I saved the best for last. The Phase III scheme has always been my favorite. The Zephyr charges west out of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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