Photo ID: 112473 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 262 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of BNSF DPUs bring up the tail end of the Provo-Denver manifest as it slowly descends Big Ten Curve. As you can see, UP's MGJNY is sitting on the main at Eisele, waiting for its turn to proceed east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112470 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 232 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer RMRX 8020 and RMRX 8021 are kicking up a bit of exhaust, with ten cars in tow. This includes nine passenger cars and the power car, used (as the name suggests) to provide electrical power to the train as the geeps are not equipped with HEP (Head End Power), such as the P42DCs used by Amtrak. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112469 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 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) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer is running with both of its GP40-3s on this trip, as the train climbs up and around Big Ten Loop. In the distance, an eastbound UP manifest (the thrice-weekly MGJNY) is waiting on the main at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112468 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 211 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer As the Rocky Mountaineer climbs the west side of Big Ten Loop, UP's eastbound MGJNY sits on the main at Eisele (Clay). It will wait for both the Rocky Mountaineer to meet it, and then wait for BNSF's Provo-Denver, currently at Plain, to overtake it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112467 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 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) Rocky Mountaineer RMRX 8020 and crew creep along at 10 MPH through a UP work zone on Big Ten Loop. There are several earth movers adding new rock on the downhill side of the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112466 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 224 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer UP's MGJNY is sitting on the main track at Eisele as it needs a recrew. The dispatcher working DS-380 is new to the territory, and was unaware that crews are unable to get to Eisele (by road). Fortunately, the crew will have enough time left to make it down to Leyden for a recrew there. Meanwhile, the manifest is waiting on the Rocky Mountaineer, currently climbing from Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112465 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 209 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer is sold out for this westbound run out of Denver. It is great to see both the GP40-3s back on the train as it slowly climbs Big Ten. There is an eastbound UP manifest on the main at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112458 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I am not sure why UP is running an empty eastbound coal train, but I would assume these cars had been in long term storage somewhere, are either being put back into service, being moved to a new location for storage, or sold/scrapped. The train is passes by some fresh rip rock that will be used to shore up the track here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112447 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 171 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This eastbound BNSF oil train creeps through a work zone on Big Ten Curve. This was the location of a derailment last Friday. One truck on BNSF's Provo-Denver derailed. Since then, UP has started a broader construction project to shore up the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112446 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 232 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF Lately, there have been quite a few Norfolk Southern units showing up on the Moffat, leased from NS for BNSF. Not sure why that is the case, but here is a (rebuilt) AC44C6M in the middle of two BNSF units, leading an oil train eastbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112445 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 141 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF oil train has two BNSF units with a Norfolk Southern cut in between the two of them. The train is slowing for a 10 MPH slow order through a work zone just ahead on the other side of Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112435 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 183 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A track tamper, which has been working on Big Ten Curve, and a hyrailer are both rolling east down the grade back toward the main track at Rocky. They are clearing up for a westbound rail train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112426 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 186 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5772 leads UP's Grand Junction to North Yard manifest around the north edge of Big Ten Curve. Note the solar-powered weather station to the right. It measures, among other things, the current wind speed and reports it back to UP headquarters in Omaha. If the wind speeds are high enough, a 10 MPH slow order is issued around Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112423 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 292 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A dump truck dumps out a load of ballast that will be used in repairs of the track where a derail occurred last Friday morning. An eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver had a truck derail on a tank car. No cars fell over, but there was some track damage. You can clearly see the fresh ballast that has already been laid. A track foreman just checked the gauging here, and is informing DS-380 that a track tamper needs to run through here before two eastbounds. Also note the flood light which has been used at night as crews have been working around the clock to get operations back to normal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112422 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 142 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Right after the westbound Zephyr passed by, a UP maintenance foreman received track and time from DS-380 to check the train gauging at the location of a derailment here on Big Ten last Friday. You can see a dump truck showing up, ready to drop some fresh ballast. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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