Photo ID: 113180 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, September 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 88 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At first glance, this might appear to be a unit covered hopper train. While it is almost exclusively covered hoppers, you can see two tank cars off in the distance. This is an extra train, with the symbol MDVBOX-27. All the cars on this train are headed for industries on the Craig Branch. Normally, the cars would be added to the MNYGJ and the cars would be set out at Bond. However, the sheer volume of cars have necessitated this extra train. A rare sight indeed on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113032 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 318 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Clouds slowly float around in the area as the morning Zephyr makes its way up and around Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113031 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 317 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 204 is the first P42DC in the 200s (as far as I know) to sport the new Phase 7 paint scheme. Slowly, Amtrak is going through the process of repainting the entire P42DC fleet in Phase 7 colors. Here, the morning Zephyr is climbing the north edge of Big Ten curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112962 Date Shot Photo By Friday, August 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 421 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It is August, which means sunflowers are pretty much in full bloom in the Denver-Metro area. Multiple sunflowers are growing on the south edge of Big Ten Curve as BNSF's Provo-Denver heads east on the final 20-ish miles of the journey. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112941 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 461 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 4533 and train have slowed to a stop at a red signal at the east switch of Eisele (Clay). DS-378 indicated there is a phantom occupancy on the main, and that the engineering special will need to be flagged by the red signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112940 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 438 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific There have been quite a few UP passenger trains running in the Denver area this summer! In June, UP's passenger equipment ran west over the Moffat. In July, UP 4014 brought a train from Cheyenne to Denver. Then, UP 1616 did the same thing on the Greeley Sub. Later, passenger equipment went west over the Moffat. Now, a UP engineering special heads west, climbing the north leg of Big Ten Curve, with a single SD70M for power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112934 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 470 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) NS, BNSF This eastbound oil train has been told that 31st Street yard in Denver currently has no room for the train, so it is going to tie down in the siding at Rocky. The van driver that is picking the crew up is new to the territory...she drove past Rocky and was halfway up Big Ten when she met the eastbound train. The crew told her she should turn around and go back to the east end of Rocky. You can see the van on the right side of the shot, getting ready to turn around. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112912 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, August 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 386 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is rounding the eastern curve of Big Ten Curve, alongside the wind break. This is the second of three shots from this same perspective of the morning Zephyr. The previous shot is here. The next shot is here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112911 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, August 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 410 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr starts the climb up Big Ten Curve. I decided to take three shots of the Zephyr this morning from this same perspective. To see the next shot, you can click here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112903 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 398 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It has been a few months, but AMTK 203 is on the California Zephyr again. The last few trips, it was the second unit. But this morning, it is back on the point of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112901 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 378 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr was delayed over four hours in Nebraska, due to a "mechanical issue", according to Amtrak. Not sure precisely what the mechanical issue was, but due to that and a few other delays, the Zephyr is six hours late as it rounds the bend on the approach to Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112900 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 342 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is getting nearing the end of a 10 MPH slow order and, as a result, both P42DCs are throttling up and they both kick up a bit of exhaust. The Zephyr is on the south edge of Big Ten, and is headed into the afternoon light. A bit unusual to have these lighting conditions for the westbound Zephyr, but it is running six hours late. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112899 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, August 3, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 357 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr has slowed to about 10 MPH to comply with one of many slow orders that have been established on the Moffat in the past few weeks. This afternoon, there are some fast-moving clouds, with shadows moving quickly through the scene. Fortunately, this shot was taken just before the shadow at the top fully encompassed the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112857 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 334 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Three units bring up the tail end of an eastbound oil train on Big Ten Curve. As has become relatively common of late, there is a Norfolk Southern unit mixed in with the two BNSF DPUs. Several of these oil trains are originating east of the Mississippi on Norfolk Southern. Not sure if that is the case for this train or not. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112856 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 21, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 345 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A trio of elephant-style BNSF units lead a loaded eastbound BNSF oil train through the S-curve on the north edge of Big Ten Curve toward a clear (green) signal at the west end of Rocky. The evening has brought with it partly cloudy skies. Fortunately at the moment, we are in the "partly" portion, great evening light cast on the eastbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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