Photo ID: 107012 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 19, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1564 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Okay, going for a bit of a perspective change here! Shooting underneath the train in the foreground, the lead units of a westbound coal empty approach Tunnel One as seen from near the Blue Mountain grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106933 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 1, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1198 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Passengers onboard the westbound Zephyr are about to dive in to their first of many tunnels on the journey west of Denver. The east portal of Tunnel One is just ahead of the lead P42DC. From looking in the windows of the Lounge car as the Zephyr rolled by, it looked like there was a pretty good crowd aboard for this New Year's Day adventure. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106920 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 30, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1822 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ferromex, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, BNSF A very colorful consist emerges from the east portal of Tunnel One. Only two of the six units on the head end of this eastbound are BNSF, but the train itself is indeed BNSF. The first three units were on a Denver-Provo which I shot a few days ago on Thursday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106890 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1138 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load rolls out of the east portal of Tunnel One. The train will cut out its mid-train swing helper in Denver and a new crew is called for 10:20am to take the train east on to the Plains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106612 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A little bit of sun peeks out from behind the clouds as the Zephyr approaches the east portal of Tunnel One. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106189 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1432 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The nose of an ES44AC is about to disappear in to the east end of Tunnel 1 as it pushes on a westbound manifest. The perspective of the shot makes it appear that the tracks are closer to the left tunnel wall, but they are in fact centered through the tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106188 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1409 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70M and an ES44AC bring up the tail end of a manifest that is headed for Phippsburg, CO on the Craig Branch. Visible in the shot is the east portal of Tunnel 1. The train will pass through this and another 26 tunnels before reaching the Moffat Tunnel, roughly 26 (rail) miles ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105999 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 26, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 2143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Electro-Motive Division, Union Pacific There was a train following UP's Engineering Special and I had no idea what it was going to be. I was certainly surprised when I saw it was EMD's SD70ACe-T4 test train! When the train was up at Tabernash in March, it stayed for four days. Apparently a day and a half was all they needed this time around. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105992 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 26, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1532 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is quite common for UP to send an Engineering Passenger Special over parts of the system in the late Spring. The special frequently runs over the Moffat and this year was no exception. The train was called out of Helper at 7am and made good time across the former Rio Grande. Here, it emerged from Tunnel 1 and descends toward Blue Mountain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105827 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1487 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific In general, unit oil trains are only 3/5 to perhaps 2/3 the length of an average coal train. A point demonstrated in this shot as you would not be able to get both ends of a coal train in this frame. The head end of unit empty oil train is about to head into Tunnel 1 as the covered hopper buffer car on the rear rolls clear of the hot box detector at MP 22.6. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105813 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 8, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1483 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF One of the BNSF units on this train is offline and not loading. Not sure which one, but the train had to stop at Rocky after developing an issue with one of the three units. BNSF's yard in Denver sent the Norfolk Southern unit west (light) to pop on the front of the train and assist in the journey west to Provo, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105710 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 9, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1613 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After looping through the S-Curves at the base of Coal Creek Canyon, this westbound coal empty (headed for the Craig Branch) is about to duck into Tunnel One. The first of 28 tunnels the train will travel through before reaching the 6.2-mile-long Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105665 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1456 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest emerges from Tunnel 1 with a fairly typical consist on the head end. An ES44C4 leads the way, followed by a pair of C44-9Ws. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104340 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 21, 2013 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 2155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Minutes after passing the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Road (for which the control box and tracks are visible in the foreground), the westbound Zephyr is about to disappear in to Tunnel 1 on its journey west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104027 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 20, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 2424 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Last week when the Zephyr headed west on a Friday with AMTK 184 on the point, I was bummed I didn't have time to shoot the train anywhere other than at Chemical. So, when I heard AMTK 184 was leading the train again on this day, I was excited that I had the time to make the climb up to Tunnel 1. This is the shot I had in mind and definitely the best place to shoot a westbound on the Moffat in the morning! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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