Photo ID: 110512 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 187 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Partly cloudy skies have shadows floating across the landscape as the westbound Zephyr climbs up toward Big Ten Curve. It has been a bit of a chilly spring, but things are warming up. It is a very pleasant 55°F this mid-May morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110511 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 218 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 180 throttles up and kicks up some exhaust as the train makes its way up the 2% grade on the north edge of Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110503 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 239 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning cloud cover helps to get some different perspectives in the area around Big Ten. Case-in-point is this view from the north side of the tracks as the morning Zephyr climbs the north edge of Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110478 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 10, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 210 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Friday westbound Zephyr, with a typical consists of seven Superliners (led by a pair of P42DCs), climbs up a relatively green Big Ten Curve. Note the tracks at Eisele (Clay) above in the distance, where this train will be (in the next picture). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110470 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 229 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer Well, unfortunately, for the third run of the 2024 season, the Rocky Mountaineer has a pair of leased SD70Ms from Union Pacific. Not exactly sure what happened with the GP40-3s. Also not sure why the leased power from Horizon Rail was not used. Regardless, overall the two SD70Ms in use do look pretty good overall on the climb up to Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110468 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 172 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5284 leads a westbound oil train around the outside of Big Ten Curve. You can just see part of the wind break hoppers on the inside of the curve. In the summer, it is pretty common to have totally clear skies in the morning with clouds and thunderstorms in the afternoons. However, on the first day of May, it is still very spring-like and some partly cloud skies are around this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110467 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 184 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A pair of ES44ACs, with an SD70ACe sandwiched between, lead a westbound empty oil train up the north edge of Big Ten Curve as some clouds rolls in from the Rockies, headed for the plains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110463 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 29, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 164 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) inspects the tracks off the Class 1 railroads (and maybe smaller railroads as well...I'm not sure). Looks like today it is the Moffat's turn to get the inspection. UP 6060 has a gondola and FRA inspection car in tow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110462 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 29, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 166 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Federal Railroad Administration UP 6060 has a gondola and an FRA inspection car in tow just west of the west switch of Rocky, starting up toward Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110443 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is dodging shadows under partly cloudy skies as the train climbs the grade toward Big Ten. The area around Big Ten is really starting to green up as we get deeper in to spring! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110442 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 247 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A trio of elephant-style P42DCs lead the evening eastbound Zephyr down the north edge of Big Ten Curve. Note the oil covering part of the long hood on AMTK 142, the trailing unit. Wondering if it might be headed for Beech Grove, IN, Amtrak's maintenance facility. If so, it'll very likely emerge in the Phase 7 scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110441 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 319 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Downtown Denver is cast in shadow as the eastbound Zephyr comes around Big Ten Curve. You can clearly see the windbreak hoppers that were placed on the inside of the curve over 50 years ago, in the early 1970s. This is a shot I've wanted to get for awhile, but the last few times I've tried, the train was in the shadows. Denver in the shadows is better, but I still want to try to get the shot when the skies are crystal clear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110421 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 257 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On this particular morning, Big Ten Curve is pretty close to the boundary between snow on the ground and the ground just being wet. The snow was not able to push much to the east of Rocky overnight. Snow in April in the Denver area is certainly not uncommon, but this late in the season, the accumulations tend to be very low. Makes for a great look as the Zephyr rounds the wind break at Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110420 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 213 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's rather nice that Amtrak has been running these two freshly painted P42DCs on the Zephyr for the past week or so. The irony being that, as great as it is to catch these units now, looking back ten years from now, when the Phase 7 scheme is completely ubiquitous, the Phase 5 scheme will be missed. The Zephyr is climbing the north side of Big Ten Curve in some powdered snow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110419 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 226 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is making the climb up and around Big Ten Curve with a pair of very colorful units on the point. In just a minute, the train will be knocking down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Eisele (Clay) in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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