Photo ID: 107312 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 26, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1182 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In accordance with emissions rules, more and more Tier 4 units are showing up on both UP and BNSF...specifically, the ET44C4 for BNSF. Like its ES44C4 ancestor, this unit is an A1A-A1A unit, with only the outside axles on either truck being powered. This is a specification that BNSF is absolutely in love with. They haven't purchased a standard C-C unit in probably five years now. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107311 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 26, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1197 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The sun works at melting the snow on the ground on a crystal clear February morning. After about ten days of very cold temperatures, things are starting to warm up with temperatures around 40°F. A BNSF Provo-Lincoln manifest heads toward the west switch at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107202 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1473 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This Provo-Denver is relatively short, with only three engines and 45 cars in tow. It seems that BNSF's Provo-Lincoln manifests are generally longer than the Provo-Denver manifests. The train has a clear signal at the west switch of Leyden here in this February snow storm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107201 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1416 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A trio of BNSF GEs leads the eastbound Provo-Denver manifest through a February blizzard west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107168 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak This morning is a somewhat typical morning for a February day in the Denver area. The temperature is about 25°F and the skies are mostly cloudy as the Zephyr, running on time, heads west at track speed west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107092 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 1, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1564 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Potpourri Power! This westbound BNSF Denver-Provo has a Heritage 2 C44-9W, a New Image ES44DC, and a Heritage C44-9W. The train is just west of Leyden, approaching a clear intermediate at MP 14.5. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107077 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1235 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific None of these three GP40-2s started life as Union Pacific. The first two (UP 1422 and UP 1425) both once wore scarlet and gray and were on Espee's roster. The third unit (UP 1370) is of Missouri Pacific ancestry! The three geeps are the power on the West Local and are headed for the Rocky Spur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107076 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1260 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Just three lonely geeps making the trip west out of Leyden under some dynamic, cloudy skies. The train...err, engines...are headed for the Rocky Spur to pickup a couple cars at the aggregate plant at the west end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107075 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1277 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A trio of GP40-2s head west out of Leyden. They are the West Local for the day! Crazy how, at one point, this local needed four engines for all the cars it had. Today, it is going west with nothing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107064 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1172 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's manifest between North Yard and Roper (and vice versa) is now a thrice-weekly train. It departs from either yard on Monday's, Wednesday's, and Friday's. More often than not, it is dark when the train makes it to Colorado. On this Tuesday, however, the train happened to come east in the morning. And with an interesting power configuration to boot! Loved the five SD70s (two SD70ACes and two SD70Ms) leading the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107063 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1180 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It isn't too often you see a train these days with seven units on the head end! Yet that was the case on this morning as the MRONY was setup to run in a 7x(0)x1 configuration. Here, the train is approaching the west switch of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107061 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 29, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1035 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Dynamic brakes are whining from the standard trio of mid-train swing helpers on this eastbound coal load as it passes by the west signal of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107060 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 29, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1064 (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 1146 (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 1100 (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.

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