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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS016 (East Rocky)
Arvada, CO
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565 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Amtrak
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The eastbound Zephyr rushes away from the Rocky Mountains and the rapidly setting sun in order to reach Denver and continue on to points east toward Chicago. The just passes a Clear (green) signal at east Rocky and is now headed in to Barbara's Gulch. While you probably cannot tell at first glance in this shot, but the lead unit was one of the 44 P40DCs Amtrak took delivery on. It has since been upgraded to P42DC specs, but it still wears the number of a P40.
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS016 (East Rocky)
Arvada, CO
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767 (Add a Comment)
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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With traffic on the Moffat so low these days, it is always great to find a UP train! Coal is practically nonexistent and oil trains after very few and far between as well. UP stopped the MNYRO and MRONY 18 months ago. They also stopped the MNYPH and MPHNY. Cars bound for the Craig Branch are dropped off or picked up at Bond by the MNYGJ and MGJNY. That means the MNYGJ and MGJNY are the only UP trains you can still reliably find on the Moffat. And even those only run every 2-3 days on average.
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Sunday, January 6, 2019
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Kevin Morgan
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CP DS016 (East Rocky)
Arvada, CO
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Moffat Tunnel (UP)
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Union Pacific
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Seven units lead a westbound coal empty headed for the Energy Mine on the Craig Branch. "A coal empty?", you might be asking. "That does not look like a coal hopper behind the power!" - and you would be correct. With the implementation of PSR (Precision Scheduled Railroading), UP is reducing the number of trains by combining some trains. In this case, manifest traffic that would be on the MNYPH is instead added to the point of coal empties.
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