Photo ID: 105876 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1446 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Electro-Motive Division An SD70AH leads what you might consider its children on at Blue Mountain. The colorful units trailing are SD70ACe-T4s, and they are prototypes for EMD's Tier-4 compliant engines. The prime movers are a departure from previous EMD models. The 2-stroke, 710-engine has been a staple of EMD for a couple of decades now. In order to reach emissions standards, however, these new units are 4-stroke, 1010-engines. They only have 12 cylinders instead of the traditional 16, but they still pump out 4,400 horsepower. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105872 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1510 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Not a whole lot needs to be said about this shot! Classic view of a westbound winding through the curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. A pair of DPUs bring up the tail end of the coal empty, which will load at Energy Mine on the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105871 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 7, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1440 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound coal empty, headed for Energy Mine on the Craig Branch, makes its way through the S-Curves on the approach to the Blue Mountain road crossing. The temperate weather that Denver has been getting lately took a day off to allow a winter storm to blow through. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105838 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1392 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF I try to make it a point to get as many of these CitiRail leasers on film (well, electronics...but you get the point) as I can. There is a good chance that these will have totally disappeared within a couple of years. Plus, it is quite a wild paint scheme and, like most railfans, I love getting shots of wild paint schemes! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105837 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1462 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF An eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver manifest, with a CitiRail leaser on the point, winds through the S-Curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon on the approach to the Blue Mountain road crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105826 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1501 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific After a couple weeks of frigid temperatures and quite a bit of snow, things thawed out a bit in mid-February! Most of the snow is gone and the temperature is close to 60°F as this westbound oil train, led by a pair of Kansas City Southern SD70ACes approach the Blue Mountain grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105825 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1510 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific A pair of good looking Retro-Belle KCS SD70ACes lead up a westbound oil train as it makes its way through the S-Curves west of Eisele (formerly Clay) on the approach to the Blue Mountain Road crossing. As the sole power on the train, these guys sounded mighty fine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105812 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 8, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1535 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF Here is a scene you don't see everyday! A Norfolk Southern unit crossing Blue Mountain Road on the way west on the Moffat. I intentionally cut out the second (BNSF) unit from the frame to make the scene that much more unusual! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105811 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 8, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1615 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF Interesting story behind this westbound BNSF manifest. As it was headed west through Leyden, one of the three units developed a problem. The train crawled at 12 MPH to Rocky and stopped on the main. Ultimately, BNSF ran this Norfolk Southern unit west to Rocky where the crew attached it to the point of the train, and the train continued heading west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105709 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 9, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1946 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I knew this shot was going to be backlit, but I'm actually really pleased with the results! A pair of SD70ACes lead a trio of GEs on a westbound coal empty at Blue Mountain Road Crossing. The trees still carry a touch of powder with them from a snowstorm a day earlier. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105668 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1428 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF While the lighting isn't exactly ideal, the Tier 4 ET44C4 is still too new to ignore! Some of the distinguishing items include the slight bulge just ahead of the radiators on the long hood and the four grills on the radiator intake. Although it is difficult to tell from this angle, the radiator housing is taller (coming to more of a point) as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105622 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1579 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Just another C44-9W? Well, yes...but this one has a bit more of a story. Until February 2001, this unit was Scarlet and Gray! Delivered as SP 8188 in November 1994, this unit spent over six years as an Espee unit before getting patched (and later repainted) in Armour Yellow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105621 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1562 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Union Pacific has rebuilt a good portion of their fleet of SD40-2s, giving them new life on the rails! After the rebuild, the units are now designated as SD40Ns. One such example was on the eastbound MRONY (Manifest, Roper, UT to North Yard, CO). It is so amazing to not only see SD40-2s still on Class One rails in 2015, but to see them flourishing! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105620 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1622 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A look at the Boy Scouts of America unit leading the MRONY. The Boy Scouts started in 1910 and, in 2010, Union Pacific renumbered one of its ES44ACs to 2010 and tweaked the scheme to celebrate 100 years in scouting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105619 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1656 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I have been very fortunate in that I've managed to capture nearly every specially painted Union Pacific unit (since 2000) on "film". Prior to October 7, 2015, there were two I was still missing. The Breast Cancer Awareness unit (UP 7400) and the Boy Scouts of America 100th Anniversary unit (UP 2010). UP 2010 was knocked off that list when it led the MRONY down the Moffat. A break in the clouds allowed for fantastic lighting on the unit here at Blue Mountain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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