Photo ID: 106938 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, January 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 972 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr has nine Superliners (including four coaches, a lounge, a diner, and three sleepers) on this day. Not bad, considering winter is typically the slow season for Amtrak. It's not uncommon for the Zephyr to only have 6 or 7 Superliners this time of year. The train is about to knock down a clear signal in Barbara's Gulch, east of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106908 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1200 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Interestingly, the three units on the point of this westbound are all older (relatively speaking...late 90s and early 2000s) power, yet the two DPUs on the tail end are quite a bit newer. Alas, they are both facing west, so "going away" shots wouldn't be the best. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106907 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1197 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, Norfolk Southern It is not uncommon for railfans to joke that BNSF and Norfolk Southern should merge...after all, "NS" already makes up the middle two letters of "BNSF". Then, of course, there are trains like this in which you have a nice mix of both BNSF and NS power! The Denver-Provo is pulling west through Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106906 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1202 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A BNSF H2 C44-9W and a pair of Norfolk Southern GEs have this westbound Denver-Provo rolling through a slightly snowy Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106894 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 957 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr makes its way through the narrowest part of Barbara's Gulch and toward Rocky. If you look in the distance, you'll notice an eastbound coal train coming around Big Ten Loop. The two trains will meet at Rocky, and because of the timing, neither will actually end up having to stop. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106893 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1114 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr looks to be ramped up for holiday travellers! This time of year, the Zephyr typically only has six to seven Superliners on it. Five days before Christmas, however, and the train has nine Superliners. This includes four coaches, a sightseer, a diner, an three sleepers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106892 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1014 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr rolls west through Barbara's Gulch on an advanced approach (flashing yellow) signal. The train will be meeting an eastbound coal train at Rocky. The coal train is already halfway in to the siding at this point. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106853 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1073 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It isn't too common to find both mid-train and trailing DPUs setup on a manifest on the Moffat. But when you consider that each covered hopper you see in this shot is filled with sand and weighs around 110 tons each, the reason becomes fairly clear. Because those covered hoppers are only 40 feet long, the overall train is just over 4,000 feet in length despite weighing over 12,000 tons. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106829 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 9, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1214 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific Since the start of December, I've managed to shoot power from each of the five US-based Class 1 railroads on the Moffat! That's Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Kansas City Southern. Here, a "catfish" leads a westbound coal empty through Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106828 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 9, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1099 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific A coal empty headed for the West Elk Mine on the North Fork branch has some pool power on the point! A Norfolk Southern ES44AC leads for UP units through Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106810 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1057 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, Union Pacific A pair of BNSF ES44ACs bring up the tail end of a westbound loaded sand train. UP ran this sand train in two sections so as to avoid any stalls on the Moffat. Probably a wise decision, but not the preferred decision amongst railfans...the original plan called for a power configuration of 3x4x2, had the entire train run west! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106809 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1053 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific While BNSF still has around 1,400 C44-9Ws on their roster, UP has under 300, and many of those are frequently in storage. So it was a bit of a surprise to find this C44-9W on a westbound sand train. Looks like the unit was involved in some type of fire at some point! The unit was delivered in 1994, arriving as SP 8138. It was only on the Espee roster for six years, as it changed to UP 9602 on November 22, 2000. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106808 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1062 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A C44-9W is sandwiched between two SD70ACes on the point of this westbound unit sand train, pulling through Barbara's Gulch. A pair of BNSF units bring up the tail end of the 43 car train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106807 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1028 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Two nights prior to this shot, a loaded 113-car sand train arrived in Denver. The sand was headed for the Craig Branch. UP broke the train up and sent 51 cars west the night before. On this day, another 43 cars were sent west on the train RDVXTS-08. The remaining 19 cars were kept in North Yard to be added to the MNYPHX-08. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106801 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF "Yet another BNSF trackage rights train led by ES44s"...that's what today's railfan might say (myself included). But I always remind myself that a railfan 30 years from now will likely give anything to see a scene like this! After all, 30 years ago, railfans were say "yet another Rio Grande coal train led by Tunnel Motors"... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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