Photo ID: 107304 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, February 25, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1076 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound grain shuttle approaches the grade crossing at Simms Street. The 108 car train is an interesting mix of older covered hoppers and some very new hoppers as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107096 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 1, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1153 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF These CitiRail ES44ACs were fairly common to see a few years ago when BNSF was experiencing some power shortages. They don't show up too often anymore, so it was pretty great catching two of them on the Provo-Lincoln. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107095 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 1, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1160 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Quite a variety of power on this eastbound Provo-Lincoln manifest. The second unit is a (fairly new) ET44C4. The third and fourth units are CREX ES44ACs. BNSF leased a lot of these CREX units back in 2015 as there was a boom in traffic and a shortage of power. These units are now far less common to come across. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106886 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 18, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1007 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 76th Avenue, just off of Simms Street, turns into a private drive not too far to the west of this shot. As a result, mailboxes for the houses stand along the public section of the road. Whereas they normally stand in relative peace, the quiet is broken as a coal train rumbles east toward Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106885 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 18, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1058 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The City of Arvada is almost exclusively residential. Other than some (relatively) light commercial zoning, most of the city is housing and neighborhoods. The Moffat cuts right through it, passing by roads, mailboxes, and trash cans! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106884 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 18, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1204 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In order to keep the speed under control, the engineer has had to increase the train's air brake application. The result is a bit of smoke being generated from the brake shoes rubbing against the wheels. The train is leaving Leyden and approaching the grade crossing at Simms Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106636 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1277 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound manifest rolls through the grade crossing at Simms Street. There are some flaggers stationed at all the grade crossing through Arvada. Their job will be to protect grade crossing as maintenance equipment that doesn't trip the crossings come by. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106635 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1225 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound manifest approaches the grade crossing at Simms Street under partly cloudy skies. Personally, partly cloudy skies like this are my least favorite conditions to shoot in. Clouds move in and out of the scene and can wreak havoc on settings. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106634 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 1, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1297 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The eastbound MRONY passes by piles of ties along the right of way. Those ties will be installed over the course of the next week as the Moffat is entirely closed for maintenance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106469 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1272 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The last two DPUs, bringing up the rear of the Public Service coal load, are about to cross Simms Street. Parallel to the tracks in 76th Avenue which, about 100 feet behind the photographer, turns into a private drive for the houses located along it. Their mailboxes can be seen standing here...how I'd enjoy one of those houses! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106468 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1205 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If coal trains do ever cease on the Moffat, I am going to miss the standard operation of three mid-train swing helpers found on each train. These units will be cut out of the train at the Pecos Crossover and go into North Yard for servicing. Typically, the units would have been sent west again for swing helper service. But with so few coal trains running right now, who knows if that'll actually be the case for these three units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106467 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1384 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Coal is not quite dead on the Moffat just yet! A brand new ET44AC leads this eastbound "Public Service" coal train out of Leyden. 3 new gas generators have been built and are online at the Cherokee Power Plant in northeast Denver. One "old" coal burning unit is being converted to burn gas. Until that conversion is completed (sometime in 2017), this coal train will still run a few times a month. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106277 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 31, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1208 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A trio of ES44ACs make up the mid-train swing consist for this eastbound coal load. The three units, setup elephant-style here, will be cut out of the train at Pecos Street and will then likely return west to serve as mid-train swing helpers on another coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106276 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 31, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1190 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific On the final day of 2016, an eastbound coal train approaches the grade crossing at Simms Street in Arvada. Here's hoping that 2017 will see a bit of a spike not only in coal traffic, but in traffic on the Moffat in general. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106263 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1399 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound manifest has a trio of second-generation EMDs in the consist. A GP40-2 and two SD40-2s are being transported from Grand Junction to Denver. The units are being moved "DIC", which is short for "Dead In Consist". 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