Photo ID: 106346 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1422 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A quintet of ES44DCs lead the eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver manifest down the main at Leyden on a snowy January morning. Based on the plow, looks like there is even better snow in the high country. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106347 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1309 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF When I was a kid, it was commonplace to see railroads running trains in which the engines all had the same paint scheme. After the merger frenzy of the 1990s, paint schemes became a jumbled grab bag of whose-was-who. It has finally been long enough...twenty years later...that it becoming more and more common to see trains in which all engines wear the same scheme. Case-in-point is this eastbound BNSF manifest with a match set of five ES44DCs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106348 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1246 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest, with five ES44DCs (well, the last two units are ES44C4s), is headed east through Leyden on a clear signal. Soon, the Grand Junction based crew will arrive in Denver and begin their rest period before taking a westbound manifest back home to Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106349 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1093 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At the start of the winter season, Colorado's snowpack was around 75% of the average. Since then, enough snow has fallen that the snowpack is now up to 150% of average! With all that snow in the high country, roads have seens a lot of delays or outright closures. In order to get crews to and from trains in the Colorado high country, UP uses a "Snow Bus". This is typically a caboose sandwiched by two units. On this particularly day, there are three units on this Snow Bus, which is headed back toward North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106350 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound "Snow Bus" special knocks down a clear signal in Barbara's Gulch. The City of Arvada annexed some land on the south side of the rails in order for the community of Leyden Rock to be built. Since the creation of new roads in the neighborhood, it allows for perspectives in Barbara's Gulch that were previously extremely difficult to get to. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106351 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1193 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In addition to its standard manifest traffic on the Moffat, BNSF will occasionally send other trains over the Moffat. Such is the case on this snowy afternoon when BNSF ran a "copper train" west. The train is a unit train of open top gondolas, seen here between Leyden and Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106352 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1004 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I love winter in Colorado! The snowy landscape of the Moffat is just so photogenic. A westbound BNSF unit gondola copper train trudges slowly west on the approach to the east end of Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106353 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1226 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A shot that has no doubt been captured thousands of times by hundreds of photographers over the years...a westbound train pulling through the S-Curves on the approach to the Blue Mountain Road Crossing. Even if the framing is the same, the content is ever-changing! Here, a BNSF unit gondola train fills the shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106354 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This westbound BNSF copper train shows off 20 years of paint schemes! The original "Heritage" scheme is worn by the center C44-9W. A fan favorite of many railfans to this day! Leading is a C44-9W with the "Heritage 2" scheme, which replaced the Heritage scheme only after a year or two. And third up is the so called "New Image" scheme. First unveiled in 2005, this scheme came out when Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad was reorganized as simply BNSF Railway. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106355 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A winter scene that I never get tired of! An ES44DC and an SD70ACe bring up the tail end of a loaded copper train that is headed for Provo, UT. This is one of those unusual BNSF train that will occasionally pop up on the Moffat. I don't recall the last time there was a unit gondola train on the Moffat! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106356 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF GAH! Dang poles! How great would this shot be if it weren't for the poles littering the tracks to the right. A trio of units leads this BNSF westbound as the two DPUs swing around in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106357 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1203 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I never get tired of a nice long lens shot of a train traversing the S-Curves at the bottom of Coal Creek Canyon. This westbound copper train is move away from the photographer, a pair of DPUs bringing up the tail end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.