Photo ID: 105236 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1385 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This C44-9W hiccups a bit of white exhaust while waiting in the siding at Cliff. It is on the point of an eastbound BNSF manifest which is waiting on its counterpart to arrive from the east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105237 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1467 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Utah Railway A rare visitor to Colorado...or anywhere outside of Utah for that matter! Utah Railway 3002 is a GP40, built in 1970 and most recently owned by Kansas City Southern before showing up on Utah Railway property in 2006. It is most likely being moved to Panama City, FL where it will receive an electrical upgrade and a repaint and return to Utah Railway as a GP40-3. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105239 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1427 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Hurry up and wait! You can frequently hear that said when it comes to trains. The day after the 4th of July in 2015 was no exception on the Moffat. This eastbound BNSF manifest has been waiting in the siding at Cliff for nearly an hour. It is waiting on its counterpart, which encountered some engine problems and stalled out at Crescent. The track (out of focus) in the foreground in the Cliff House Track, which has a noticeable grade down to prevent cars from rolling out on to the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105240 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS036 (East Cliff) Pinecliff, CO 1442 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The grade crossing at Cliff is a nice place shoot trains going east and west. If you happen to have a long lens with you, you can get some pretty dramatic shots, particularly of westbounds coming around the curve and in to view from the east. Such is the case on this Sunday, as a westbound BNSF manifest comes around the curve, horn blaring for the crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105241 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Ironically, when I decided to head west for the Moffat on this day, I was actually hoping to see some UP action! I should have known that, instead, I would find BNSF trains running in both directions. After stalling out (due to engine issues) at Crescent, the westbound on the main has finally made it to Cliff. Its counterpart sits in the siding, waiting for him to clear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105242 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1394 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF We caught a catfish! If you aren't familiar with "catfish" as a reference to trains, it refers to wide cab Norfolk Southern engines, particularly GE. The white stripes on the black nose resemble the face of a catfish, and thus the name. On this day, this NS C44-9W is assisting in DPU helper duty on this westbound BNSF manifest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105243 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1294 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The conductor for the eastbound BNSF manifest in the siding (on the left) is on the ground right at milepost 37. He gives a wave up to the conductor for the westbound BNSF manifest on the main. This train had some engine problems and the conductor had to walk back to the DPUs. After getting the issue resolved, he simply rode in the DPU up to Cliff where a track maintainer was waiting to give him a ride back up to the head end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105244 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Pinecliff, CO 1364 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After a lengthy wait of over an hour in the siding at Cliff, this BNSF eastbound is finally on the roll again. This picture was taken from the vantage point of CO-72, which quickly climbs a mountain as you depart Pinecliff to the east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105245 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1446 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After getting held up for over an hour at Cliff, this eastbound BNSF manifest is once again headed into the siding, this time at Crescent. The clouds have broken up enough to offer some nice lighting on the scenery in the distance. The train will ultimately wind up blocking the grade crossing for about 15 minutes while waiting for the westbound UP coal empty it is meeting to come by. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105246 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1392 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Utah Railway This Utah Railway probably will not be wearing the classic red and gray Utah Railway paint scheme much longer. It is likely headed to Panama City, FL where it will receive electrical upgrades (being re-designated as a GP40-3) and also a new Genesee and Wyoming (orange) paint scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105247 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1231 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF manifest slowly rolls in to the siding at Crescent to wait for a westbound UP coal empty. There is a grade crossing located near the middle of the siding (located at MP 31.35). The road is Gross Dam Road, so named because it eventually leads to Gross Dam. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105248 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 1215 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I got myself in to a predicament at Crescent on this Sunday afternoon. I knew the BNSF manifest (in the foreground) would be taking the siding. However, I thought that it would be short enough to fit east of the grade crossing. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case. The train came to a stop on the grade crossing, preventing me from getting to the other side of the tracks to shoot and westbound. Since I couldn't get over there, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons and get a blurred shot of the westbound between tank cars at the grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105249 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1319 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest passes by the hot box detector at MP 22.6. As implied in the name, a hot box detector measures heat along the axles of the passing train. If a brake shoe is sticking against a wheel, it will (naturally) generate large amounts of heat. This will be detected and the information will be broadcast over the radio to the crew of the train, giving the exact location of the problem including axle number and rail (north or south, in this case). Fortunately, there were no issues for this train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105250 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1345 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This last spring, particularly May, saw a lot of rainfall in the Denver area. The result has been a particularly green summer. Such is the case here at the Blue Mountain road crossing. A C44-9W leads a pair of ES44DCs east through the curves at Blue Mountain as afternoon clouds roll in from the mountains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105251 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 5, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1365 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Utah Railway At this point, I'd have to say that Utah Railway is my favorite short line railroad out there. It reminds me of Rio Grande and the cool operating agreement the two railroads had (and Utah Railway and UP continue to have) over Soldier Summit. So, on rare occasion, when a Utah engine makes its way to Colorado, it is always good to see. Unfortunately, when this GP40 returns to Utah, it will most likely be wearing the orange paint scheme of the Genesee and Wyoming. Genesee and Wyoming (which owns over a dozen short line railroads in the US) has owned Utah Railway since 2002. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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