Photo ID: 103482 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Boulder Boulder, CO 1907 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF The Valmont coal train pulls into Boulder across 63rd Street alongside the Valmont power plant. Recently legislation in Colorado may result in the Valmont power plant converting to natural gas. So the Valmont coal train's days may be limited! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103484 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Boulder Boulder, CO 1717 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF When BNSF arrives with the Valmont coal train, half the train is spotted within the power plant, spread across multiple tracks. While this is happening, the second half of the train hangs out on the main track, east of 63rd Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103485 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Boulder Boulder, CO 2033 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF After spotting the front half of the train at the power plant, the back half of the Valmont coal train will be placed on the Stazio Siding west of the plant. A plant switcher will pick up these loads and replace them with empties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103486 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 2180 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Have you ever seen the California Zephyr running in what appears to be a distributed power formation with one P42 on the point and a second on the end? Turns out, in this case, the Zephyr is being taken back to Denver. A major rock slide required it be pulled back to town. The P42 on the left side of the shot is providing HEP and the P42 on the right is pulling the train eastbound around Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103487 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Carr Street Arvada, CO 3351 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Here is something you don't see every day! P42DC #67 is actually pulling Amtrak backwards through Arvada eastbound toward Denver. A rock slide in the Tunnel District made this necessary. The conductor stood in the back of the P42 and spotted the reverse movement for the engineer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103488 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS007 (Arvada) Arvada, CO 2477 (3 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound California Zephyr is now the eastbound California Zephyr as it is being dragged back to Denver! Note the red class lights on AMTK 132, indicating this is the back of the train. The Zephyr has a double yellow in the distance at Arvada. It is lined down Main 3 and back into the station in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103489 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 2124 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak Well, after traveling almost 30 miles west of Denver, the westbound Zephyr has returned to Denver! A rock slide on the Moffat kept the train from making it west. The head end P42 was pulled off the train at Clay, run around the train, and tacked on the tail end. It then pulled the train back to town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103490 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 2156 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak After leaving Denver and then getting pulled back to Denver, the California Zephyr sits in track 1, the only remaining track at Union Station. The train was pulled back to town by the P42 on the rear end after a derailment on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103491 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 2182 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak After returning to Denver due to a major rock slide on the Moffat, the westbound Zephyr is going to be turned into the eastbound Zephyr. The spare P42 is taken out of the stub track and added to the front of the train. On the west side of the divide, the eastbound Zephyr was wyed at Tabernash and turned into the westbound Zephyr. Passengers from that train were bussed to Denver and placed on this train to continue east to Chicago. Likewise, passengers from this train were bussed to Fraser and placed on the new westbound Zephyr. When all was said and done, #5 was 10 hours late heading west and #6 was just under 3 hours late heading east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103492 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 2290 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Although the MNYPU doesn't depart Denver until close to midnight, power for the train has already been spotted on the runaround track at North Yard. A pair of C44AC-CTEs and the Rio Grande Heritage Unit will run the train south. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103493 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 15, 2010 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard Denver, CO 1962 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Union Pacific Always nice to see a familiar face in town! Okay, so it may not be obvious at first glance that this is a familiar face. Until September 1, 2005, this was DRGW 3105. It spent nearly five years running as a patched until. However, it recently made a visit to North Little Rock and got truly assimilated by UP! 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