Photo ID: 109880 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Carr Street Arvada, CO 138 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single SD70ACe brings up the tail end of this eastbound loaded coal train. The train was loaded at the West Elk Mine on the North Fork Branch. While the train is moving through Arvada, the skyline of downtown Denver is clearly visible in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109878 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 1, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Carr Street Arvada, CO 119 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The Moffat wraps through a nice, long S-Curve around 66th Avenue in Arvada. Coal trains were once as common on the Moffat here as trees along the right-of-way. With the decline in coal, they virtually disappears from the Moffat for years. They have started to make a minor resurgence lately, however, and this eastbound load is rolling through the scene. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108015 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Carr Street Arvada, CO 936 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It's been a couple of years since I've seen one of these! A GP60M (now a GP60M-3 after a rebuild) was the third unit on this Provo-Denver. While I do not know for sure, I suspect this unit may have been used in switching either in Grand Junction or Provo. It is likely going to Denver to undergo a 92-day inspection. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108014 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Carr Street Arvada, CO 991 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Headed east on an Approach Diverging signal (yellow over yellow), this Provo-Denver is paralleling Oberon Road and approaching the Carr Street grade crossing in Arvada. This is the first eastbound on the Moffat since yesterday's eastbound California Zephyr, nearly 22 hours ago! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108013 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Carr Street Arvada, CO 877 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After stopping for about 15 minutes at Leyden, DS-80 got a signal for this BNSF manifest to continue east through Arvada. The train will have to stop again at C&S Junction to wait for the yard to be ready to take the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107398 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 20, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 969 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific On a somewhat chilly Tuesday morning in March, an eastbound coal train rolls across the grade crossing at Carr Street in Arvada. The train is passing underneath the high/wide detector at MP 8.4. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106895 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 978 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load passes through the high/wide detector at MP 8.4 and crosses over Carr Street. In another four miles, the train will arrive on Bypass 2 and cut out its three mid-train swing helpers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106507 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 1219 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The westbound Denver-Provo is just about to clear the grade crossing at Carr Street. The City of Arvada has installed "quad crossings" and soon this crossing will become a quiet zone as trains will no longer use their horns. The two poles on either side of the train are a high/wide detector. If anything is hanging off the train that won't fit through the tunnels in the Tunnel District, they trip one of the wires, notifying the dispatcher. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106506 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 1259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of good old C44-9Ws, both in Heritage 2 paint, bring up the rear of the westbound Denver-Provo. It is becoming increasingly rare to find C44-9Ws alone on these trains as ES44s and ET44s have become so dominant in the last few years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106505 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 1358 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A westbound BNSF Denver-Provo starts its journey west out of Denver. The train got held up at Utah Jct for about 20 minutes as DS-86 and the Corridor Manager figured out what to do about a coal train at Leyden (which was ultimately tied down there). No doubt the Grand Junction-based crew will be happy to return back home. As is common for a lot of the BNSF Denver/Provo trains, this train was about 95% tank cars. Also of note is the ET44C4 leading the train! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105986 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 1349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's westbound Denver to Provo manifest passes through the high-wide detector at MP 8.4 (Carr Street). The crew for the train was called at 1:45pm and it didn't take long for the train to depart. This is likely because BNSF's crews for trains on the Moffat are now based exclusively out of Grand Junction. So this crew was called and just had to pop over to the yard from the hotel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105943 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 1463 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A BNSF SD70ACe (somewhat rare on the Moffat) leads up the eastbound Provo to Lincoln manifest at Carr Street in Arvada. DS-86 had originally held the train in the siding at Leyden. The plan was to wait there for Amtrak. However, it was decided the train could make it down to C&S Junction fast enough to avoid delaying Amtrak. The plan worked as the Zephyr had a clear signal by the time it reached Arvada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105464 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 1424 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, CREX This was, for me, the "money shot" of the day. I got a heads up from a friend that BNSF's Denver to Provo manifest would be running west with a CREX-leased ES44AC on the point! These leasors showed up on BNSF in 2014 when the railroad was experiencing a power shortage. The train just met the West Local at CP DS007 and is now headed west toward Leyden where it will meet its counterpart and the eastbound California Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103487 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 3351 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Here is something you don't see every day! P42DC #67 is actually pulling Amtrak backwards through Arvada eastbound toward Denver. A rock slide in the Tunnel District made this necessary. The conductor stood in the back of the P42 and spotted the reverse movement for the engineer. 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