Photo ID: 112143 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I thought this was a cool shot of the head end of a westbound UP oil empty in the siding at Eisele (Clay), while a loaded UP oil train continues east on the main at Rocky. A pair of DPUs are bringing up the tail end of that eastbound oil train. The westbound in the foreground is waiting on the final run of the Winter Park Express for the season. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112142 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This westbound oil train has to wait in the siding at Eisele (Clay) for one more eastbound before it is its turn to continue. While waiting, we see an eastbound loaded oil train descending Big Ten Curve in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112131 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Winter is making a push here during the first week of Spring. Fortunately, generally warmer weather is preventing much snow from accumulating along the main here between switches at Eisele (Clay) as a westbound oil train makes its way west. One of the two nose headlights is seemingly burned out on UP 7244. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112007 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 35 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Four units, including a Canadian Pacific ES44AC, are on the head end of this eastbound Provo-Denver manifest. From this limited view, it would be easy to confuse this with a unit tank (oil) train. One good tipoff that this is not a unit oil train is the lack of a buffer car behind the power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111930 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 85 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The BNSF train to the left and the UP train to the right are both currently facing south (geographically). However, the BNSF train at Eisele (Clay) is eastbound and the UP train at Rocky is westbound. The UP train will climb up and around Big Ten, taking the siding at Eisele to meet the oil load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111928 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, BNSF Between late 2018 and early 2019, Kansas City Southern decided to dip a toe into the Tier-4 locomotive lineup, purchasing 25 GE ET44ACs. One example, KCS 5010, just happened to be the second unit on an eastbound BNSF oil train here at Eisele. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111927 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Montana Rail Link, BNSF With MRL units now owned by BNSF and, consequently, in the general power pool, they are rolling through the Denver more often. This makes me happy as it is allowing me to get more pictures of them before they are inevitably repainted BNSF orange at some point. This shot makes the 12th MRL SD70ACe I've been able to shoot. It is the third unit on the head end of an eastbound oil train on the main at Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111926 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 66 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As we get closer to spring (and then summer), the days are starting to get longer. Here, not long before noon, this eastbound BNSF oil train is heading almost directly into the sun as it slows to a stop on the main track at Eisele (Clay). It is waiting on a westbound UP oil empty that will take the siding. There is a BNSF manifest tied down on the siding at Rocky, so the meet had to be here instead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111893 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 48 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 11 and AMTK 167 lead the morning Zephyr, running about 1 hour and 15 minutes late, on the main at Eisele (Clay). A fresh bit of frost covers the trees and a bit of the grass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111876 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 151 and AMTK 57 lead thew eastbound Zephyr through a scene at Eisele (Clay) that is entirely dominated by frozen frost on all of the vegetation. The train is a bit behind schedule today, running about 90 minutes late. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111808 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 78 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 75 and AMTK 59 lead the Winter Park Express westbound on the main at Eisele (Clay). Since the Amtrak started running the Winter Park Express in 2017, it has never had more than 40 trips in a season. However, thanks in large part to the government of Colorado, it will have 69 trips for the 2024-2025 season. Reports indicate that the train has largely been sold out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111796 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 51 and AMTK 157, running elephant-style, lead the westbound Zephyr through Eisele (Clay) precisely on time, if not a few minutes early. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111795 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Thanks to the angle of the sun this morning, black and white just felt right for the Zephyr, heading west on the main at Eisele (Clay) right on time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111772 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak I cannot see much of the tracks from my current vantage point, but I can see just enough to catch the two P42DCs and baggage car as the California Zephyr makes its way west just west of the CO-72 overpass at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111764 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak While the engineer works with the PTC Help Desk to resolve a PTC issue, the conductors trek their way through snow in -2°F (-19°C) weather toward the switch at the west end. They'll have to put the switch in hand throw and align it for the main for the train to continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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