Photo ID: 104227 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1471 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Yet another Zephyr with yet another typical consist. Why do I bother continuing to shoot identical-looking Zephyr's? Because today's typical becomes tomorrow's nostalgic! Did you know the F40PH was king of long distance Amtrak trains for about 25 years? Did you also know that the P42DC has now been around for 18 years!? What will the next chapter bring? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104228 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1648 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific On Sunday's, the MNYRO gets the day off! It is supplemented instead with an MNYGJ (running only to Grand Junction instead of all the way to Roper). While the Roper train can do setouts in Grand Junction, a lot of traffic is held for the MNYGJ. Here, a quartet of AC4400CWs (well, the lead unit is a C44AC-CTE) lead a lengthy MNYGJ toward the east switch of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104229 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1802 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific On what has to be the most beautiful morning thus far in the Spring of 2012, UP's MRONY is pulling out of the siding at Leyden after meeting the Zephyr and the MNYGJ. There isn't a cloud in the sky as the train approaching the Simms Street grade crossing. An SD9043MAC makes a somewhat rare appearance on the Moffat, third back in the consist. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104230 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plastic (MP 16.1) Arvada, CO 1703 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After meeting each other at Rocky, the MNYGJ continues west on the main at Clay while an empty ballast train passes by the intermediate signal at MP 16.1. The distance between the trains has expanded to about five (rail) miles. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104231 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plastic (MP 16.1) Arvada, CO 1559 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An EMD-led empty ballast train heads east out of Barbara's Gulch on clear signals. It is unusual to find an SD9043MAC on the Moffat these days and even more unusual to find one on the point of a train! In the distance, the MNYGJ pulls west through Clay. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104232 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 4 (MP 26.0, 174 ft) Arvada, CO 1892 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just a reminder of how insignificant trains are when compared to mother nature! BNSF's eastbound trackage rights manifest train (symboled QPVDVJ in UP's system or HPVODEN in BNSF's system) emerges from Tunnel 4. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104233 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rainbow Cut Arvada, CO 1724 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Coming through Rainbow Cut, this BNSF manifest is the only eastbound currently on the eastern slope of the Moffat and the only train at all between Plain and Denver. Clear signals ahead...at least until Leyden where the train would wait for about an hour due to the Been Train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104234 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1776 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF You can't go wrong with the Flat Irons shot from Plainview. An SD70MAC, an SD70ACe and an ES44DC lead BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest down the main at the grade crossing near the east end of the House Track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104235 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 1517 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Once the new main track is completed between C&S Junction and Arvada, C&S Junction is going to become a long OS. In other words, there is going to be a great distance between the eastbound and westbound signals. The distance between signals will be nearly a half a mile! Here, BNSF's Beer Train departs from Main 3 in the distance as the yet-to-be-activated new signal for Main 1 stands facing the side in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104236 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 1786 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Until the new main track is actually put in service (expected to be May 2012 at the time of this photo), the new switches at C&S Junction are hand-throw. So, when BNSF's Beer Train comes through, a UP guy on the ground has to manually throw both sides of the crossover (from Main 1 to Main 2), the switch from Main 2 to the Golden Branch and the Derail on the Golden Branch. Here, you can see the Beer Run crossing over from Main 1 to Main 2 and you can also see that the Derail has been properly aligned in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104238 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS005 (C&S Junction) Denver, CO 1745 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Beer Train enters the Golden Sub at C&S Junction. The new signals (yet to be activated) that will protect C&S are seen in the foreground. The signal on the right will be for the Golden Sub and the signal on the left will be for Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104239 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 2017 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Beer Run is offering up a lot of "bell and whistle" as it heads west toward Sheridan Blvd. The BNSF train is moving close to UP track gangs working on the new main track. You can see the future Main 2 (with concrete ties) to the left of the train in the picture. The new (freshly ballasted) Arvada Siding is right next to the BNSF track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104240 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 1771 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF Not long ago, BNSF would frequently use older power on the Beer Run in the form of SD40-2s or something similar. These days, it tends to run with newer power, such as the C44-9W and ES44DC seen here. The SD40-2s will be dropped off in Golden and used on the Golden Switcher (local) in the upcoming week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104241 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Denver, CO 1727 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF Now this looks pretty good! Cascade green is quickly becoming a thing of the past, but it was nice to see a pair of class SD40-2s. BNSF 1652 has undergone a rebuild as is evident from the air conditioner on the cab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104242 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 1664 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF, Union Pacific With the UP work zone (Form B) behind, this BNSF Beer Run can continue on to Golden. Here at the Sheridan Blvd overpass, the UP track foreman in charge sits in his truck talking to an eastbound train that will be coming on the Moffat. That train has to get talked past a red board (think stop sign) into the track limits. Why? So the foreman can ensure all the track workers (seen to the right) are in the clear, know about the train, and won't get hit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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