Photo ID: 101604 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 30, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chem Spur (MP 16) Arvada, CO 1805 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 4828 brings up the back end of BNSF's Pueblo to Provo (HPUEPVO) trackage rights train. As is often the case, the train is dominated by tank cars with a just few pieces of general merchandise thrown in. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101602 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 30, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14.5 Arvada, CO 1564 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Ever since Amtrak stop running express freight, the consist for the California Zephyr is far more predictable. You are almost gauranteed to find two engines, a baggage car, and eight passenger cars (three sleepers, a diner, a lounge car, and three coaches). This morning is no exception as Amtrak hustles toward the industry at Chem Spur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101601 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 30, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14.5 Arvada, CO 1770 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Amtrak 5 is the first of several westbounds in a parade of westbounds coming out of Denver! Rising above most of the Denver-Metro area, Amtrak is just west of Leyden on a temperate September morning. The train is running about 15 minutes late. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101577 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 7, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14.5 Arvada, CO 1592 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Three AC4400CW's are setup elephant style as swing helpers on this eastbound coal load. Once the train reaches Pecos street, these swing helpers will be cut out by North Yard hostlers. The train will be put back together and will continue east toward Kansas (and points east) on the KP line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101576 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 7, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14.5 Arvada, CO 1919 (3 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Nothing like sunflowers and sunrises (and trains, of course). Just before 8am on this September morning, an eastbound coal load has clear signals at Chemical. Within the next five to ten years, this location could change quite dramatically as there is talk of completing the "470" highway loop around Denver. The plans call for the highway to cross the tracks right around this location. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101502 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, August 9, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 11 Arvada, CO 1744 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BN I had heard on the scanner on the drive home from Boulder that BN 9690 would be leading a train west, but it hadn't appeared west of Denver yet. I knew BN 9690 was an SD70MAC, and I was hoping that the train might be a coal empty. Unfortunately, the train turned out to be the Pueblo to Provo manifest...even so, when was the last time you remember an unpatched (green and cream) BN unit on the Moffat? After BN 9690 was BNSF 5950 (ES44AC) and BNSF 630, a former ATSF (Warbonnet) C44-9W. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101490 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, August 4, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14 Arvada, CO 1981 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Don't you just hate it when your scanner breaks up at just the wrong times? I had heard the dispatcher contact this eastbound coal load and address them as "__P ___314 east" ... now, I didn't realize I had missed the leading six, and thought it might be SP 314! Alas, not that lucky on this particular day. The train is moving on an Advanced Approach signal, prepared to enter the siding at Leyden to meet four westbounds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101459 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chem Spur (MP 15.4) Arvada, CO 1751 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just east of Chem Spur (along Highway 72), this eastbound BNSF manifest has a clear signal at Leyden to continue into town. The train is led by three new GEVOs (ES44AC's), BNSF 7548, BNSF 7549 and BNSF 7550. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101409 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1835 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ski Train With clear signals ahead, passengers enjoy the view off the open vestibule of the Kansas. The Ski Train is heading west at a quarter to four in the afternoon on a special chartered run. The train will return to Denver later the evening, arriving around 11pm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101408 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 14 Arvada, CO 2356 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ski Train It hadn't happened in four years, but the Ski Train finally made another evening run west of Denver to Winter Park. The train, chartered by Train Collectors Association, departed Union Station at 3pm and 45 minutes later, it was passing just west of Denver with the Denver skyline in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101382 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 126.2 Bond, CO 2939 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Anybody need a light? In this five minute exposure taken around 11:00pm, and eastbound manifest streaks east past the intermediate on the approach to Yarmony. All the trees and bushes were lit up by the headlight of the train. Note the signal dropping from green to red and the FRED flashing on the back of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101380 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 126.5 Bond, CO 1657 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A very late Amtrak 6 passes by the location of what's left of the State Bridge Lodge. The lodge was established in 1890 and, regretablly, it burned to the ground just four days before this picture was taken. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101378 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 115.2 Kremmling, CO 1912 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This coal empty, which is shuttling power to Grand Junction to be used in DPU's for eastbound coal loads, is on the approach to Radium. The Colorado River runs on the right side of the image, and Gore Canyon is actually visible just off of center to the right in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101377 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 114 Kremmling, CO 1709 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A UP coal empty with eight units (only of which three are actually active and working) makes it way west out of Little Gore Canyon west of Azure. The train will wrap around the mountain in the foreground and head through the siding of Radium about two miles ahead of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101340 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 3, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 139.7 Toponas, CO 1902 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific There are some amazing loops and horseshoe curves on the Craig Branch between Bond and Toponas. One such horseshoe curve is here, about a mile west of the siding of Crater. The head end of UP 5948 comes around the curve on the right while the tail end DPU's enter Tunnel 49 on the left side of the image. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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