Photo ID: 108663 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 3, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 979 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr meets a westbound BNSF Denver-Provo which has had the unfortunately luck of being stuck in the siding for the last five hours. A track maintainer found a track issue around Coal Creek Canyon that required repairing before allowing a train to roll over it. It was fixed in time for the Zephyr, and now the manifest will finally get a green signal to head west. However, the train will only go as far as Pinecliff before taking the siding again for a recrew. The train spent so much time at Rocky, the crew only has another five hours to work. So a fresh crew will take the train to Grand Junction from Cliff. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108659 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 3, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 708 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, Norfolk Southern After meeting its eastbound counterpart, the Denver-Provo continues to hold the siding at Rocky to meet an eastbound hyrailer! This track maintainer observed a defect in the rail around Coal Creek Canyon that is going to require repair before the westbound can get underway. The hyrailer will meet with a crew from Leyden that will head up to Coal Creek and conduct repairs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108500 Date Shot Photo By Friday, October 2, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 1065 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943 is just out the west end of Rocky and has come to a stop. It now will wait for DS-80 to throw the switch and flag the unit back east in to the siding and onto the MNYGJ, currently tied down on the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108439 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 894 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An empty UP coal train blasts out the west end of Rocky on its way west. The train has 143 cars and is nearly 8,000 feet long. The original symbol had the train headed for the Antelope Mine in Wyoming, but the termination point was changed to Provo, UT. The reason? Not entirely sure. Perhaps the train will load at the Savage load out near Price? Perhaps the cars are going in to storage? Only UP knows for sure... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108409 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 929 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single SD70M leads a ten car passenger special west through Little Ten Curve at toward a clear west signal at Rocky. The train is heading west to Helper, UT. Who all is on the train? Well, that's open to speculation! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108405 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 27, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 892 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A relatively short Provo-Denver, with two units on the point and a single unit on the tail end, descend down from Big Ten Loop toward a clear signal at the west switch of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108372 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 17, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 845 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr comes out of west Rocky on an Approach (yellow) signal. The Zephyr has what has become a typical seven Superliner consist. Standard in the current days of the pandemic. Typically, at this time of year, the train would have eight or nine Superliners. Waiting in the siding at Eisele (Clay) is BNSF's Provo-Denver. It has 54 cars today, with four on the point and two DPUs on the tail end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108369 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 17, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 870 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As the MNYGJ climbs out of Rocky, it is soon going to have a minor issue. The train is currently operating using a PTC software program called "Trip Optimizer". That software will crap out just ahead, causing the power on the train to drop to idle. The engineer will shut the software down and manually throttle the train back up. The train slowed to about 3 MPH when that happened, but the engineer kept it from stalling out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108368 Date Shot Photo By Friday, July 17, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 919 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's MNYGJ climbs west out of Rocky and toward Big Ten Loop. It will meet BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest at Eisele (Clay), which is visible a few hundred feet higher in the background. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108355 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 13, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 799 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A westbound BNSF manifest heading for Provo wrap around and through Little Ten Curve, approaching a clear signal at the west end of Rocky. The train just passed by a UP rail train, holding the main between switches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108278 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 845 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The MNYGJ is starting to slow down a bit as the 7,000 foot train starts to really hit the grade climbing up out of Rocky and toward Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108277 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 854 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Yesterday's MNYGJ could not depart until today do to a shortage of rested crews in Denver. With an afternoon departure, the train is about to knock down a clear signal at West Rocky and climb up Big Ten. The train is just over 7,000 feet long! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108254 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 831 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At first glance, it certainly may appear as though the Zephyr and the UP manifest are headed the same direction on parallel tracks. While they are indeed both heading geographically south right now, they are on the same track. The Zephyr is climbing out of Rocky and will go around Big Ten Loop, ascending in elevation up to Eisele where the UP manifest is waiting to meet the Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108213 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 22, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 864 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Whereas coal used to be the main commodity on the Moffat, with as many as 9 loads and 9 empties running in a 24 hour period in 2007, today it has become extremely scarce! The Moffat will now go days, weeks, or even months between coal trains. I was lucky to catch one on the second day of summer, seen here climbing west out of Rocky toward Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107972 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 906 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A westbound oil train wraps around the long, steady curve at Little Ten Loop, West Rocky, and climbing toward Big Ten Loop on a beautiful January morning. Tunnel 1 can be seen off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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