Photo ID: 110700 Date Shot Photo By Monday, July 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 128 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I am always impressed that, nearly 30 years after the merger that created BNSF, there are still a few Warbonnets on the rails whose paint is actually still in really great shape. BNSF 766, the third unit on the Denver-Provo, is a great example. Granted this unit is actually lettered for BNSF, which means it happened after the merger in 1995, Warbonnets being lettered with BNSF only happened briefly after the merger. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110571 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 165 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The sun has already ducked behind the mountains as UP 1943, the unit painted in celebration of the US military, leads an eastbound oil train out of Plain and toward Tunnel 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110540 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 6, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 129 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The foliage has reached its peak green levels at Eisele in a beautiful scene as the westbound Zephyr passes by on the main track at Eisele (Clay). It does look like the Lounge car, third from the end, could stand to receive some cleaning and/or polishing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110539 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 6, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 146 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Amtrak seems to be repainting P42DCs from Phase 5 to Phase 7 paint at a rate of around one every two weeks. AMTK 75 appears to be the latest to get the new scheme, second out on the westbound Zephyr this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110528 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 27, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 129 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak May and June tend to be the two greenest months of the year in the Denver area, and May has been no exception in 2024. The Zephyr passes west through Eisele amidst the great green grass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110516 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 154 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer It seems that the issues that have plagued the Rocky Mountaineer GP40-3s the last two seasons have largely been resolved. It is great to see them running on the point of the train, paint schemes nicely matched to the cars. The train is westbound on the main at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110505 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 177 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Despite the partly cloudy skies to the west, the sky to the east is overcast and covering the sun as the westbound Zephyr hustles on the main at Eisele (Clay), AMTK 82 and AMTK 60 on the point. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110473 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 165 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer These two leased UP SD70Ms on the Rocky Mountaineer are the exact same two SD70Ms that the train borrowed from UP at the end of the 2023 season. I would speculate that the SD70Ms have been sitting in (long term) storage at UP's 36th Street Yard in Denver. Today, they are leading the westbound Mountaineer at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110472 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 152 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer has 10 cars today for the trip from Denver to Glenwood Springs. The train will stay overnight tonight and, per the usual procedure for the train, continue west to Moab on the Cane Creek Subdivision tomorrow. For now, the train is westbound (geographically northbound) on the main at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110469 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific With the advent of drones, I really enjoy getting shots at Eisele (Clay). If you are on the ground, you have to hike in to Clay. Consequently, I did not have too many shots from Clay prior to about 2019. It's great to be able to easily access in 2024 for this westbound oil empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110445 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 178 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The number on AMTK 59 (the second unit) has definitely faded a bit and is getting a little bit difficult to read...from a distance, anyway. Interestingly, the conductor's door on the unit must not have been latched tight as it appears to have swung open. The units lead the morning Zephyr through Eisele (Clay), which is starting to green up here in spring. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110358 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 10, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 165 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer RMRX 2021 leads a westbound test of the 2024 Rocky Mountaineer on the main at Eisele (Clay). A former SD45 (now an SD40M-2) and an SD18M are on lease for the season to assist in the trips between Denver and Moab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110322 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 174 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Seeing the California Zephyr on this morning makes me think of the 1980s when the California Zephyr, Pioneer, and Desert Wind were all combined as a single train between Denver and Salt Lake City! On this morning, however, only the first seven Superliners actually have passengers in them. The five cars at the end are all empty as they were picked up in Denver. These are the Superliners that were used on the Winter Express Ski Train this winter. The season just ended last Sunday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110274 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 15, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 218 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr ran in to a pretty serious delay between Princeton, IL and Galesburg, IL the previous day. The Zephyr lost nearly four hours between the two cities. It lost some more time on the journey west, and ultimately departed Denver roughly five hours late. The train makes its way through Eisele (Clay) on the main track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110184 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 203 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It looks like UP may have pulled a bunch of center beam flats out of storage, possibly from somewhere in the desert between Grand Junction and Helper. This is a long strand of them on the Grand Junction to Denver manifest. The Winter Park Express is waiting for them to clear, sitting in the siding at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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