Photo ID: 108000 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 8, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 909 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Kicking up a little bit of snow, the westbound Zephyr is right on time as it glides west down the main at Plain. A snow storm the previous day dropped about six inches of snow here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107927 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 9, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1043 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak One of Amtrak's Phase III Heritage Units, AMTK 822, leads the westbound Zephyr on the main at Plain. The train is running about 2 1/2 hour late this morning. Plenty of snow remains on the ground from several decent storms that have hit in November and early December. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107796 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 8, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1244 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Heading directly in to the low winter sun, the final MRONY crosses the grade crossing at Plain. Another 21 miles is all the train has left on its journey. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107728 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1345 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1943 leads a UP officer's special west on the main at Plain. The headlights reflect through the lightly falling rain as the temperature hangs around 30°F. DS-80 will do his best to keep the train moving quickly toward Grand Junction. At this point at Plain, the train has clear signals all the way to Tabernash! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107594 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1372 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound coal train was originally called at Bond at 6pm the previous night. It seemed certain that it would arrive in Denver in the dead of night. Fortunately (for the railfans out there), it experienced a major delay in Bond and did not depart until 2am. The crew that was on duty at 6pm only made it to Cliff before their hours expired at 6am. The next crew got the train and it hit plain in beautiful morning light! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107593 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1206 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Generally speaking, UP's heritage units seem to do a pretty good job of avoiding Colorado. So, when one does show up (as UP 1982 has a few time lately), a lot of effort is often made in getting shots of it! Here, the MoPac unit approaches the grade crossing at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107592 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1294 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1982 makes its second appears in as many weeks on an eastbound coal load on the Moffat! A fresh crew got on the train at Cliff (after the previous crew died), and is now bringing the train through Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107495 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1118 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Interestingly, this eastbound coal train only had a pair of mid-train swing helpers, instead of the standard trio. The reason being that the train is actually relatively short. It is only 74 cars in length, so the third unit was not needed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107494 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1231 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Gotta love the full on green that accompanies the month of May! A coal load heads east at Plain through a picture-perfect spring scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107493 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1212 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Coal has certainly experienced a major drop off in the last decade, but it isn't completely gone! Here, an eastbound coal load rolls down the main at Plain, passing some maintenance equipment. The train loaded at Energy Mine on the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107485 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1192 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A look at one of the Amtrak California Comet cars, which is headed back to California after a couple weeks away...granted I am not entirely sure what the reason was for leaving. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107382 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1128 (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 1223 (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 1223 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 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 1370 (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.

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