An eastbound MRONY has an approach signal (yellow over red) as it comes up to the west switch of Leyden. The manifest is meeting a westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest that has just entered the siding at the east end.
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After being spoiled with unseasonably warm temperatures, the 28°F on the thermometer is closer to the norm for December as an eastbound UP manifest rolls down the main at West Leyden. An ES44AC and SD70M make for an interesting pairing on this Roper to North Yard train.
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DS-86 set up a great meet between UP's MRONY and BNSF's HDENPVO on this morning. It could have been close to a rolling meet, except for the fact that the BNSF train will actually be meeting two here at Leyden.
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A trio of GEs, set up elephant-style, rest in the siding at Leyden on a Provo-bound manifest. The westbound already met a UP manifest and is now waiting on a BNSF covered hopper train before getting a signal to head west. The train is not particularly long and is holding back a few hundred feet from the west switch.
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DPU on the back of a westbound? Nope! This is actually the sole unit on the point of this eastbound unit covered hopper train! These are empty sand cars coming back east from Utah. The train actually does have a single DPU on the end, so it is configured 1x1.
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BNSF almost certainly hauls more freight tonnage, excluding coal trains, on the Moffat these days than UP does! Here, a westbound BNSF Denver-Provo meets an eastbound BNSF empty sand train at Leyden. I have definitely noticed that more and more older units are being repainted in to the "New Image" scheme.
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An eastbound empty sand train rolls down the main at Leyden on an approach signal (as it is following a UP manifest). Meanwhile, the crew on a westbound Denver-Provo gets ready to throttle up as DS-86 is getting them a clear signal out the west end of Leyden.
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With the day be a colder one (right around freezing), the heat being generated by these 13,200 ponies is definitely visible as the engineer throttles up and starts rolling toward a clear signal at the west end of Leyden.
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There has been a noticeable lack of snow in Colorado so far during the 2017-2018 winter season. Granted the snowiest two months for Colorado are March and April, but it is a little odd that virtually no snow has fallen thus far! This Denver-Provo is pulling west toward a clear signal after meeting two eastbounds at Leyden on this dry December morning.
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I do my best to nab a "boring" 3/4 roster shot whenever foreign power comes through town. Such was the case on this morning as a Norfolk Southern C44-9W was third out on BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest.
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On a beautiful December morning, under partly cloudy skies, a westbound BNSF manifest departs the siding at Leyden. A good looking Warbonnet (with lucky 7's) is the sole DPU on the tail end of the train.
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After meeting a pair of eastbounds at Leyden, this westbound BNSF manifest is back on the roll on clear signals. A lucky morning as BNSF 777, still in great Warbonnet paint, brought up the tail end of the train.
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I am very grateful that I have had the chance to shoot Warbonnets. As class 1's repaint more and more of their "old" personalities, it is only a matter of time before all the Warbonnets are nothing but history. BNSF 777 brings up the tail end of BNSF's Denver-Provo under cloudy morning skies at East Rocky.
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A trio of elephant-style GEs leads a westbound Denver-Provo through Little Ten Loop and toward the west switch of Rocky. The train, as is the case with a majority of BNSF's manifest on the Moffat, is primarily comprised of tank cars.
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Whose Train is it Anyway!? With power sharing, it can sometimes be tricky to tell. This particular train in BNSF's Provo-Lincoln, coming east through Barbara's Gulch. Good to see an SD70ACe in the mix as UP is one of the few railroads that tends to split it orders between both EMD and GE.
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