Photo ID: 112929 Date Shot Photo By Monday, August 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) NS, BNSF It would seem that BNSF and Norfolk Southern have a joint contract with a company that wants Utah oil. Whomever it is, they must be east of the Mississippi on NS rails. Lately, it has become relatively common to see Norfolk Southern units on BNSF oil trains. Likely the railroads are not always taking the time to fully swap out power when turning the train over to one another. Here, an NS ET44AC leads an eastbound oil train at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112616 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An interesting mismatch of paint scheme leading the Provo-Denver this morning. BNSF 5875, sporting the New Image scheme, is on the point. Second up is a Heritage 2 C44-9W. And finally, we have an NS AC44C6M on the head end today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112615 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 74 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At the base of Coal Creek Canyon, BNSF's Provo-Denver is navigating the curves as it heads east toward Denver. It'll have to stop at Rocky on the wait, to wait for the westbound Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112509 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 23, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 154 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer From above on the hillside, we see the Rocky Mountaineer rolling east at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. The train is crossing over CO-72. From this perspective, you can clearly see the east portal of Tunnel 1, the final tunnel the train passed through on its way back to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112237 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 253 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The evening Zephyr rolls eastbound over CO-72 at the base of Coal Creek Canyon, AMTK 203 in the lead. The sun has come out in the foreground, creating some dramatic storm lighting in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112138 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 31, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 140 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr wraps through the S-Curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon on its way east toward Denver. It is way more common for the eastbound Zephyr to be late into Denver than the westbound Zephyr. But this evening, the train is running right on time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112125 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 95 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr is climbing in the fog as the clouds lay low on this Sunday morning. The yellow nose of AMTK 203 is very unique for an Amtrak P42DC. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111920 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 223 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Winter Park Express rounds the track at the base of Coal Creek Canyon as it climbs up toward Tunnel 1. CO-72 is the road in the background, crossing underneath the tracks and heading west up Coal Creek Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111786 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 135 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At the base of Coal Creek Canyon, this eastbound BNSF oil train is emerging from the cut just west of Blue Mountain Drive, the head end now looking toward the grade crossing (and the hotbox detector at MP 22.6). If you look just above the covered hopper, at the tank cars a bit back in the train, you can see the top of the bridge that crosses over CO-72. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111381 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 158 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Montana Rail Link, BNSF MRL 4319 brings up the tail end of BNSF's Provo-Denver at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. I was excited when I got the tip about the MRL unit, but was a little disappointed to find it facing into the train. Still, anything different is welcome on the Moffat, or in the railroad world in general! When almost everything in Colorado is either UP yellow or BNSF orange, an MRL blue SD70ACe is very welcome. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111193 Date Shot Photo By Monday, October 7, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Trying to catch some final sunlight this evening, conditions were right just west of the base of Coal Creek Canyon on the climb up the 2% grade toward the east end of Tunnel 1. Six units, including a pair KCS Belles lead this empty oil train on the journey west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111100 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The two SD70ACes that are trailing on this oil train look a bit dirty on their engineers side, but they are significantly dirtier on the other side! They, along with ES44AC UP 7873 have the duty of taking this empty train to Wash, UT for loading. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111073 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 22, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 205 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is a dreary, drizzly morning and a mere 45°F (7°C) as a westbound empty oil train moves through the cut between MP 22.6 and the base of Coal Creek Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110984 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 212 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific One of the routes originally explored by David Moffat's team involved going up Coal Creek Canyon. The route would have required a tunnel a couple miles long and the route was originally scrapped in favor of the route we have today. CO-72 now follows much of that route surveyed, crossing underneath the tracks here at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110983 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 1, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 151 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70ACe leads three GEs through the S-Curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. The body of water off in the distance is Standley Lake, a main source of drinking water for the Denver suburb of Westminster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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