Photo ID: 102217 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2170 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande As the Rocky Local backs down the Rocky Spur toward the mainline, a telephoto shot from Highway 93 shows the power for the local against the Denver Skyline about 15 miles in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102216 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2067 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific The power for the Rocky Local has run around the wye and is now backing to attach to the hopper returning to town. The train will shove down the spur back to the mainline and will then be in position to return to town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102215 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2271 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Two things are being done by the Rocky Local in this shot. First off, the power is preparing to spot some covered hoppers on the tail leg of the wye. Once those have been spotted, the power will come back around the wye in the foreground, attach to the hoppers in the foreground and shove back down to the mainline. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102214 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1852 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Approaching the grade crossing at what used to be the west entrance to Rocky Flats, the Rocky Local is moving along at a cautious 10 MPH. A few of the hoppers that were to be dropped off at TXI Aggregate could not fit on the inbound track. Those hoppers will be spotted on the tail leg of the wye near the old Rocky Flat. They will be delivered to TXI at a later date. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102213 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1897 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The Rocky Local works on dropping off a string of covered hoppers on the inbound track at TXI Aggregate. The cut of hopper to the left are on the outbound track and will be taken by the local back to town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102212 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1906 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Backing down the Rocky Spur toward TXI Aggregate (at the end of the line), the Rocky Local passes by "Old Time Lumber", a company located right off Highway 93. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102211 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1690 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific About 3 miles away from the mainline on the Rocky Spur, a Saturday run of the Rocky Local is slowly backing down the spur. Note the conductor and brakeman holding on tightly to protect the reverse move and handle any misaligned switches. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102106 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1960 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific This former GP40M-2 has suffered from yellow-door replacement! However, somebody has taken the time to remove the UP Shield from the nose and repaint "SP" on the scarlet red instead. UP 1510 is leading the Rocky Local as it shoves 30 cars back across CO-72 on the spur. Note the brakeman on the last car, hanging on for the trip back. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102105 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1901 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific A trio of (patched) Espee GP40M-2s with fly letters have conquered the 8% grade away from the mainline along the Rocky Spur. The units are crossing CO-93 (which connects Boulder and Golden) as they head toward the former site of Rocky Flats. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101694 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 15, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 1663 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific There has been a ton of maintenance going on along the Moffat lately. Tie gangs, track gangs, switch gangs and signal gangs all out doing their thing. The Moffat has literally been taken out of service between Leyden and (at least) Cliff all week in between Amtrak's. This work train, with two SD70Ms for power, needed a place to tie up for the night, and the Rocky Spur worked as well as no house track was long enough to accomodate the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101629 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 11, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Jefferson County, CO 1639 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) TXI The TXI plant - located roughly halfway between CO-72 and the south end of Boulder along CO-93 - is the last industry served on the north end of the Rocky Spur. Anybody who's driven past on CO-93 will probably remember it! This shot shows the plant along with the new "critter" being used to switch cars out at the plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101628 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 11, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Jefferson County, CO 1583 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) TXI It appears as though the GM8 that has been used by the TXI plant (at the end of the Rocky Spur) for so many years may have finally fallen off its last leg. This new "critter" showed up a few weeks ago and has been switching hoppers that the GM8 used to switch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101627 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 11, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Jefferson County, CO 1720 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) TXI At the very end of the Rocky Spur is the TXI Plant (that has gone through several different owners over the years). For as long as I can remember, the plant has switched out covered hoppers using this old G8. It is in pretty sad condition and may actually be inoperable at this point. It hadn't moved in several weeks at the time I took this shot. This is the VERY end of the Rocky Spur, just a few dozen feet away from CO-93. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101246 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 15, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande For nearly three years, UP 1901 (ex-DRGW 3155) has been working on locals out of Pueblo. On March 11, the unit came north on the MPUNY for a 92-day inspection. Once released, it stayed in Denver rather than being sent back down to Pueblo. So, on March 15, it was on the Rocky Local for the first time in about three years! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 101245 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 15, 2007 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky Spur Arvada, CO 2115 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande The Rocky Local is headed east (geographic south), back toward the mainline at Rocky. This shot was taken at the grade crossing at the (former) west entrance to Rocky Flats. Now that the plant is closed, the guard station has been removed, and the public is free to access the crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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