Photo ID: 107060 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 29, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1125 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Coal that was loaded at the West Elk Mine in western Colorado is headed for export. The customer is Javelin Global Commodities and the train will be turned over to Canadian National at Convent, LA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107059 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 29, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1216 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70ACe and an C44AC-CTE lead an eastbound coal load just west of Leyden. This coal train was loaded at West Elk on the North Fork Branch. Coal traffic on the Craig Branch (to the Energy Mine) has all but disappeared in the past few weeks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107052 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1167 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just west of Leyden, a BNSF unit sand train is pulling hard, but moving slow! This sand is fracking sand, which will be used to extract oil from wells in Utah. It is entirely possible this power will be used on a loaded oil train on the trip back east in the not-too-distant future. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107020 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1484 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An ET44AH leads a westbound empty west of Leyden. The snow has been coming down since 11pm and it is only 20°F outside! The train is headed for the West Elk mine on the North Fork Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107019 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1364 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Running about 30 minutes behind the Winter Park Express, a westbound coal empty that is headed for the West Elk Mine makes its way west out of Leyden on a very snowy January morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107009 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 19, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Leyden Arvada, CO 1111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It's been good to see coal traffic (and, as a result, all traffic) pick up just a bit on the Moffat lately. Earlier this week, there were two empties that departed within 20 minutes of each other. The night before this shot, there was a load that came east. Now, on this day, another empty is headed for the Colorado high country! Note the oscillating ditch lights on this lead AC4400CW. This unit was delivered in June 1995 as SP 249. Alas, it didn't even keep that number for five years as it went to UP 6527 on September 14, 1999. A very short time later, on February 28, 2000, it then changed again to UP 6422. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107002 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1011 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Two westbound coal empties within 20 minutes of each other on the Moffat! Is this 2018 or 2008!? It just so happened that two empties got recrewed at nearly the same time on Bypass 1 and 2 in Denver. The first train to depart was headed for the North Fork Branch. This empty is headed for the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106929 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 1, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1048 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak As is typical, a pair of P42DCs lead the westbound Zephyr west of Leyden. More often than not, it also seems that the P42s are elephant style on the Zephyr. That's not always the case, but that's the way Amtrak tends to have them setup. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106928 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 1, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1058 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running 4 1/2 hours late, the Zephyr hustles west out of Leyden in an effort to make up some time. The delay was mainly incurred between Lincoln, NE and Hastings, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106902 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1385 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It's a chilly morning out (about 20°F) as BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest dashes west through some freshly fallen snow west of Leyden. The train should have a straight shot through to Grand Junction with minimal delays as there isn't much rolling on the Moffat on this first day of winter. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106901 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The sun is trying to break through the clouds as a westbound Denver-Provo manifest kicks up snow along the right of way just west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106899 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1437 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is running about 90 minutes late as it heads west out of Leyden. The train left Denver Union Station on time, but had two delays in the first seven miles of its trip west, neither being Amtrak's fault. The first problem was a Union Pacific freight train stuck in emergency at Utah Junction (on the diamond leading to the Belt). Took an hour for that train to get out of Amtrak's way. The second delay came in Arvada when the crew on the train contacted the dispatcher and requested police! Turns out there was a domestic dispute between a man and a woman and the woman needed to be removed from the train and taken in to custody. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106898 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1317 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Just west of Leyden, the Zephyr is moving at track speed through falling snow. About two inches of the white stuff fell overnight, and is continuing to fall off and on throughout the morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106897 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The first day of winter brought with it the most measurable snow the Denver-Metro has had since last winter! The westbound Zephyr is running about 90 minutes late due to a couple of issues getting out of town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106862 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1148 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A lone DPU on the tail end of an eastbound BNSF manifest helps to slow the train with its dynamic brakes as the train enters the siding Leyden. This is a telephoto shot from CO-72 looking south at the train, hence the backlighting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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