Photo ID: 107382 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1049 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak This is not a particularly common sight...finding a Sightseer Lounge car as the last car on the Zephyr! This is due to the fact that this is actually the second of two lounge cars on this westbound Zephyr. The reason? The entire train has been booked for "Train Jam", and Amtrak has added an extra lounge car for the journey. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107381 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1133 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running right on time, we find the annual "Train Jam" Zephyr heading west on the main at Plain. "Train Jam" is an event in which the entire train is rented out by a single group that bring along software gaming developers to travel by train to the annual Gaming Developers Conference held in San Francisco. Amtrak has added an extra sleeper, an extra coach, and an extra lounge car compared to the standard Zephyr compliment for the event. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107323 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 2, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1135 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Winter Park Express The "pink sticker cars" (as a friend's daughter refers to them) are on the east end of the Winter Park Express as it heads west on the main at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107308 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 26, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1270 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The California Zephyr is running about 30 minutes late due to some mechanical issues. The P42DC that led the train in to Denver shut down. In need of a second unit for the trip west. AMTK 156 was taken from the Winter Park Express Ski Train on Track 5. Whether or not the unit will make it back to Denver before the next run of the Ski Train is unknown! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107275 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1224 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A good old Colorado snow storm dropped about five inches of snow at Plain overnight, giving way to partly cloudy skies today. Despite some sunlight, the temperature was only 5°F, keeping the snow on the vegetation. BNSF's orange looks great as a trio of GEs lead the Provo-Lincoln through the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107274 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1206 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Lincoln manifest rolls east down the main at Plain with some beautiful, snowy flat irons as the backdrop. Plain has not been used since five inches of snow fell overnight! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107183 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1061 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak One of the best parts of riding the California Zephyr west out of Denver (in my humble opinion) is the ascent from Rocky up and along the Front Range. Alas, Mother Nature had some other plans for passengers on this morning. The Zephyr quickly disappears into the fog as it heads west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107182 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1119 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak This morning found a lot of fog and a bit of permafrost on some of the vegetation at Plain. As the headend rolls by, the fog is thick enough that you cannot see the last Superliner on the train! These conditions but be tough on crews, particularly when approaching grade crossings. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107181 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's an extremely foggy morning as the westbound Zephyr approaches the grade crossing at Plain. You might be able to tell that the ditch lights are oscillating at this point. Considering the limited visibility, the engineer starting blowing the horn well in advance to make sure no cars were on the crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107165 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 5, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It is so great that a few of these Budd-built cars have been saved! It's been 35 years since cars like these regularly traversed the Moffat. Here, the Silver Rapids and Silver Solarium head for their home base in California after a weekend visit to the Mile High City. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107164 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 5, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1235 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak All of the cars on the westbound Zephyr are veterans of passengers service. But the last two, even more so! The Silver Solarium (the domed car) celebrates its 70th Birthday here in 2018! As much as I love the CB&Q dome, I sure wish Rio Grande's version...the Silver Sky...could be restored. It is currently for sale (as of this picture) if someone has $25,000 burning a hole in their pocket! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106978 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 12, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1182 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, Union Pacific A single CSX ES44AC brings up the tail end of this eastbound coal load at Plain. This unit was the one leading this coal empty west just two days earlier. Since then, the train loaded at the Energy Mine on the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106977 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 12, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, Union Pacific Looking through a gap in some trees at Plain, we find an eastbound coal load with a CSX ES44AH on the point. The train is ultimately headed for Florida, so the hints of snow on the lead unit and on the coal is not going to hold up for too much longer! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106976 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 12, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1247 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Unfortunately, the morning sky had a huge cloud bank in the east, largely blocking out the sun as this eastbound BNSF manifest crosses the grade crossing at Plain. Can you tell from the paint which of these five units is the oldest? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106975 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 12, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1102 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An ES44AC leads two EMDs and two more GEs on this eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver at Plain. The high side gondolas on the house track were spotted there two days earlier by a work train. UP still has piles of old ties laying around after the maintenance blitz in September and October of 2017. Looks like they are finally going to get those old ties picked up and disposed of. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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