Photo ID: 106208 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1267 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It can be crazy just how quickly the weather can change! Less than an hour earlier, this scene would have been bathed in bright sunlight with few clouds visible. Now, dark clouds have moved in as a loaded coal train (which loaded at the West Elk Mine on the North Fork Branch) approaches a clear signal at Leyden. The lead unit was once SP 246 until getting patched in June 2004 and a full repainted a few years later. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106209 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1169 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This shot might just have you scratching your head, yes? In October 2015, an artist created a sculpture of a horse wearing a gas mask and hazmat suit. It was created and dedicated to those that work at Rocky Flats which, of course, built nuclear triggers using plutonium. The horse stands in between CO-72 and the tracks, which currently have an eastbound coal load (with four mid-train swing helpers) rolling toward Leyden. Denver skyline has not yet be covered in clouds by the storm rolling in from the west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106210 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1212 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A plaque stands in honor of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, which shut down in 1993. For years, Rio Grande supplied cars to Rocky Flats via that Rocky Flat spur (or Rocky Flats Industrial Lead). An eastbound UP coal load streaks by on the main just west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106211 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1341 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you've been looking at the other pictures I took on this day, then you probably saw a shot that shows the head of this horse. Here is the entire sculpture depicting a horse wearing a gas mask and hazmat suit in honor of Rocky Flats. The horse is well fenced off and there is a camera offering video surveillance. About eight months earlier, the horse was (sadly) the subject of some vandalism. Oh, and there is a train, too! An eastbound coal load rolls toward Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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