Photo ID: 113277 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 229 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eight car work train heads west on the main at Rocky. The train, which has the symbol WNYNYT-27, is headed for the siding at Plain. The "W" at the start of the train symbol indicates this is a work train. The "T" at the end of the symbol (before the date: "-27") indicates the work train is a tie train. As you can see, the gondolas are filled with ties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113276 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 167 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As the dozens of piles of ties along the right-of-way suggest, UP is currently in the midst of a substantial maintenance program on the Moffat. New ballast has been laid, and ties and tie plates are being replaced. Not one, but two work trains are both seen in this shot. One work train is coming out of the house track at Rocky, and another came out of the storage yard at North Yard and is headed for Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113269 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 136 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP maintenance workers are dealing with a "hot rail" on the main. The westbound Zephyr is approaching, providing plenty of bell and whistle to warn the MOW workers. In addition to the work train in the house track, there is a bit of a gathering in the dirt parking lot as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113266 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 142 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A Union Pacific work train is just getting started on the work ahead. UP 6927 has pulled a few cars out of the house track at Rocky, and is going to leave a gondola on the siding to pick up some more cars from the house track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113233 Date Shot Photo By Friday, October 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning westbound Zephyr, running right on time, has just met an eastbound BNSF manifest that is tying down in the siding at Rocky. Black and white seemed appropriate as the Zephyr makes its way through Little Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113232 Date Shot Photo By Friday, October 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 172 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF One of the shortest BNSF Provo-Denver manifests I've seen, comprised entirely of tank cars, is in the process of tying down in the siding at Rocky. The conductor has just set the derail and is walking back to the lead unit. If you are wondering how you can tell this is not an oil train, the lack of a buffer car (typically a covered hopper) right after the lead power is a dead tell. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113090 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 15, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 453 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A relatively short BNSF Provo-Denver has slowed to a stop on the main at Rocky. The westbound Zephyr departed just a few minutes late and is on its way west in Barbara's Gulch. Not quite sure why DS-378 held BNSF on the main rather than routing them into the siding. It is also a fairly short manifest today. Maybe 40-45 cars. No DPUs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113037 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 456 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After meeting a westbound coal empty (which is visible in the distance), UP's thrice-weekly MGJNY is ready to roll east out of Rocky toward North Yard in Denver. The train is quite short this morning, with only 30 cars or so (give or take). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113036 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 420 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Hello old friend! It's been just over two years since I last saw UP 1989, the Rio Grande heritage unit here in Colorado. This morning, it is the third unit on UP's MGJNY on the main at Rocky. Turns out the unit has been flagged as a bad order, and it is making its way toward North Platte, NE so it can be repaired. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113035 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 408 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's eastbound MGJNY is holding on the main at Rocky as a westbound coal empty rolls by in the siding. The coal train will run through the siding without stopping. A ballast regulator and a tamper are tied down on the Rocky Flat Industrial Lead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113030 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 467 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A Phase 7 P42DC leads the westbound Zephyr by a UP work train in the house track at Rocky. UP will send light power out of North Yard to take the train west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113029 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 469 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Stacks of ties and gondolas of tie plates paint a picture of maintenance in the house track at Rocky. Some maintenance crews are on the end of the caboose (or "shoving platform"), getting ready to start the days work. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113028 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 444 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A UP work train is tied down in the house track at Rocky. A maintenance crew is discussing the plan for the day ahead. Two light units will come out of North Yard later to hook on to the train. Rumor has it that UP's maintenance project on the Moffat is going to stop nearly all trains between 6am and 6pm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113013 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 371 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog Some maintenance of way cars are stored in the house track at Rocky, waiting for their next assignment. As part of ballast and tie replacement project UP is undertaking, there are some new ties along the house track. The gondolas are filled with tie plates. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113012 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 374 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Herzog A pair of GEs brings up the tail end of a westbound ballast train, currently in the siding at Rocky. These ballast cars, incidentally, are pretty amazing. They each have onboard computers and satellite link-ups. Each car knows where it is on the rails and how fast the train is moving (when it is moving). This allows the ballast cars to automatically dump ballast at the exact correct rate. As a result of being GPS enabled, the cars stop dumping ballast when crossing grade crossing and over switches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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