The mountains right along the Front Range don't have a lot of deciduous trees that can offer good fall colors. However, there are a few hiding amongst the pine trees as seen here at the west switch of Clay. A coal empty with three units (no DPU) hustles west as the last of five westbounds to leave Denver before 11am!
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Look west at the west end of Clay, you can see the gain in elevation between west Clay and east Plain. In this shot, the Ski Train is over a mile (trackwise) away, but has incurred a noticeable gain in elevation.
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Conditions on this April day were extremely interesting. There was a thick fog above 5700 feet and the temperature was only 25 degrees. Snow from the night before had frozen onto the trees and the plants, as seen near the west switch of Clay. UP 7114 leads a coal empty west at 15 MPH.
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UP 5588, a C44AC-CTE, brings up the back of a coal empty coming over the west switch of Clay. White was the theme of the day as there was fresh snow on the ground and thick fog in the air.
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I thought the American Flag looked good through the frost-covered trees near the west switch of Clay. This is the third unit on a westbound coal empty trying to negotiate with the fog!
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In addition to freezing cold weather and a lot of frost, this April storm brought a lot of fog to the Denver area. The fog was so bad, trains could not see signal aspects until they were a few cars lengths away. Such was the case for this westbound coal empty, creeping along at 10 MPH until the clear signal at west Clay was in sight.
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A thick layer of frost covered nearly everything on this particular April morning. The temperature outside is 25 degrees as this coal load heads east (away from the photographer) through Clay.
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UP 6439 leads an eastbound coal load through thick fog at the west end of Clay. It is not uncommon to find extremely cold, winter-type weather in Colorado, even a week into April.
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