Photo ID: 110567 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 13, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 215 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr is rolling west through the S-Curves at Blue Mountain Drive, running right on time. There are two private cars on the end of the train that were added during the station stop in Denver. Picking up or dropping off private cars can often lead to a delay in departure, but not this morning! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110529 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 27, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 283 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A Phase 7 P42DC (AMTK 69, the most recent repaint) leads AMTK 151 and a standard consist for the westbound Zephyr through the curves at Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110490 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 12, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 334 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer As the westbound Rocky Mountaineer approaches Blue Mountain Drive, the engineer throttles up and both GP40-3s kick up a little extra exhaust. It is a very rainy morning out today. In fact, there was some light hail falling as the train rolls west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110489 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 12, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 371 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer Growing up in the 1980s, going out train chasing with my dad, I was raised on Rio Grande. Consequently, spartan cab EMDs are by far my favorite locomotives. That makes seeing a pair of GP40-3s on the point of the Rocky Mountaineer really great every time I see them. Here, they are leading the Rocky Mountaineer as it approaches the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110474 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 250 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer It is a beautiful morning to start off May as the westbound Rocky Mountaineer crosses Blue Mountain Drive and passes by the hotbox detector at MP 22.6. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110464 Date Shot Photo By Monday, April 29, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 217 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Federal Railroad Administration Two Federal Railroad Administration employees look out the picture window on the back of this FRA inspection car, checking out the track as the car, led by a UP AC4400CW, pulls west through the S-Curve on the approach to Blue Mountain Drive. This particular car is designated as the T-16, and is one of several cars the FRA has for track inspection. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110440 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 343 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A quick roster shot of AMTK 161, sporting the Phase 1 Heritage scheme, second out on the eastbound Zephyr. The train got here literally seconds before the sun dipped behind the mountain to the west. Indeed, I lost a bit of light even between the previous shot with the train a few hundred feet west, and here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110429 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 265 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer GP40-3s (rebuilt from GP40-2s) are fit and ready to go for the 2024 season! The matched paint scheme with the rolling stock looks really fantastic as the train rolls east through a semi-snowy scene at Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110411 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's always great to get a bit deeper into Spring, it is always great to have late running later in the day, allowing for some daylight shots of the eastbound Zephyr as it descends toward Denver. Here, running almost exactly on time, the eastbound Zephyr rolls through the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110335 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 253 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 198 and AMTK 157 lead the westbound Zephyr in some nice afternoon light. Great for photography, but not great for the passengers as the train is running right around 6 1/2 hours late. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110329 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 338 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The newest and the oldest Amtrak paint schemes are represented on the two P42DCs on the point of the eastbound California Zephyr, wrapping through the S-Curves at Blue Mountain Road. This Zephyr is running 21 hours late! Indeed today's eastbound Zephyr is only three hours behind. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110328 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 282 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 174 (Phase 7) and AMTK 161 (Phase 1 Heritage) lead the eastbound California Zephyr at Blue Mountain Road. The interesting thing, however, is that this is actually yesterday's #6. Extremely high winds the day before stopped Amtrak at Fraser. And there it sat for approximately 22 hours! Here, the train is 21 hours late. The Phase 7 scheme on AMTK 174 is indeed the "go-forward" scheme for Amtrak. Amtrak has announced that as both power and passenger cars require maintenance, Amtrak will slowly be repainting them in the Phase 7 scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110323 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 244 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr with a few extra units and five extra Superliners make their way through the S-Curves at Blue Mountain as seen from the top of Tunnel 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110207 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 281 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific This scene is a very well known one to railfans, including many that have never visited Colorado. You can view nearly an entire train as it wraps down the grade from Tunnel, through the curves and across Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110171 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 26, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 317 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A fresh layer of powder fell overnight, covering the landscape. A pair of P42DCs pull the five-car Winter Park Express toward the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Drive. Amtrak annulled both Amtrak 5 and 6 yesterday, so there will be no Zephyrs through Colorado today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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