Photo ID: 105673 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1455 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This is, by far, the best shot of a Tier 4 unit that I've been able to capture to date. This is a slight variation on the standard ET44ACs that GE is now producing. This is an ET44C4 which, like the ES44C4, has a "dummy" center axle on both trucks. So the unit has an A1A-A1A truck configuration. The center axle on each truck can be slightly raised, putting more weight on the drive axles. A computer controls this action depending on grade, speed, traction, etc. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105672 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1879 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In the hour or so that I was out in search of UP 1996, I wound up shooting four trains. These days, that represents an incredibly busy morning on the Moffat, which is quite sad! This is the fourth train of the morning. A westbound BNSF manifest coming around the bend out of Barbara's Gulch and toward a clear signal at East Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105662 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 28, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1801 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Paying homage to Southern Pacific, the scheme on UP 1996 represents SP's Daylight Scheme, worn by many of its passengers trains (including Alco PAs and EMD E/F units) as well as SP 4449 (steam). Here, the Heritage Unit looks great amongst snow and blue skies. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105661 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 28, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 2144 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In the roughly eight and a half years since UP unveiled the Heritage Units, this is the first time I've caught UP 1996 on the point! Granted, it is only the third time I've ever caught it period, so it isn't that surprising it is the first time I've seen it leading. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105660 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 28, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1770 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After knocking down a clear signal at East Rocky, UP 1996 leads an extra manifest toward the west entrance to Barbara's Gulch. I say it is an "extra" manifest because it is not a regularly scheduled manifest. Roper yard does not typically send out an eastbound train to North Yard on Sunday's. However, it did on the Sunday after Christmas this year, and UP 1996 was on the point! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105624 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1655 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is a beautiful afternoon as UP's Boy Scouts of America unit leads the eastbound MRONY out of Rocky. Traffic on the Moffat has been nothing short of dismal lately. One manifest each way per day, a coal train or two, an occasional oil train, Amtrak, and a pair of BNSF manifests. The Moffat has been seeing as few as 8 trains in a 24 hour period lately! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105623 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1561 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 2010 leads an eastbound manifest through the east switch of Rocky on a beautiful October afternoon. If you are at all familiar with UP's roster, then you'll know that 2010 seems like an odd number of an ES44AC. You'd be correct. This is the specifically painted Boy Scouts of America 100th Anniversary unit. The Boy Scouts celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2010, hence the numbering of the unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105424 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 9, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1717 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This same train I actually shot earlier in day, being assembled (by these very two units) at the Cherokee Power Station in Denver. The train was assembled at the plant and taken across the Belt Industrial Lead to North Yard. There, four units were added to the rear of the train and the rear of the train became the front of the train! These two units were set up as DPUs and a fresh crew departed westbound, destined for the Craig Branch and Energy Mine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105423 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 9, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1519 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Sometimes when the clouds are out and messing up the perfect lighting, all you can do is try to get creative and work with it! a pair of AC4400CWs push on the tail end of this westbound coal empty past the control box at the east switch of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105422 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 9, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1517 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In the past two years or so, SD70ACes have become far more commonplace on UP coal trains. While they are by no means "the norm", it is not unusual to see them anymore. For close to a decade, UP never ran them on coal trains, making them something of a rarity in Denver. Here, a fairly new SD70ACe leads a westbound coal empty toward a clear signal at the east switch of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105254 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1421 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As this eastbound BNSF manifest approaches the photographer, the conductor opens the windows and gives a friendly wave. I actually spoke with this conductor briefly up at Cliff. He let me know that they were waiting in the siding for a westbound that was having engine troubles. He was a very nice guy. Now, he is only 17 miles away from home and has clear signals the rest of the way in to town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105253 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1447 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest passes over the east switch at Rocky, roughly 17 miles away from its destination in Denver. If you look closely, you will notice some lighter colored ballast underneath the lead unit of the train. The frog was just recently replaced by maintenance crews and some new ballast was put down as well to help with erosion from lost of precipitation. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105027 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 27, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1416 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Got snow? This eastbound is leaving Rocky and about to head in to Barbara's Gulch. There are some fairly fresh tire tracks in the snow from UP maintenance vehicles headed for Rocky the day before. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105026 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 27, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1415 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Winter Wonderland! The day before the last day of February, the City of Denver set a record for the most snowfall in history for the month of February. 22.2" fell this February, which is ironic because ten days earlier, it was shaping up to be one of the driest February's in history. Okay, enough weather talk. BNSF's Provo to Denver manifest heads east at East Rocky through the roughly 5" of fresh snow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105021 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1548 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, Union Pacific In the past, the departure of the MNYRO (Manifest, North Yard, CO to Roper, UT) was somewhat predictable, typically departing North Yard between 7am and 8am. For the last year or so, it has been much harder to predict. It has been departing anywhere between 6am and 3pm. On this chilly February morning, the train is about to knock down the signal at East Rocky five minutes before 7 o'clock in the morning. On board for the journey west is an east coast visitor! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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