Photo ID: 106857 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 1183 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest has six units today, set up 5x(0)x1. The fourth unit is a rare one indeed...a former BC Rail C40-8M! The train has just passed the intermediate signal at MP 14.5 and will take the siding at Leyden for a few hours as the yard in Denver is not yet ready to receive the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106858 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1096 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest has a Denver-based crew on board, which is a little unusual. Why is that? Since the start of 2016, BNSF trains on the Moffat typically run with Grand Junction-based crews. BNSF used to have a crew change point at Kremmling. Denver-based crews ran the trains Denver to Kremmling (and vice versa). Grand Junction-based crews ran the trains Kremmling to Grand Junction (and vice versa). After that crew change point was eliminated, Grand Junction-based crews now take the trains all the way to Denver. That is, if they have time! The Grand Junction crew "died" (ran out of hours to work) at Crescent, and the train held there for a few hours earlier in the day. A Denver crew was sent up to take the train the remaining 30-ish miles in to town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106859 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada, CO 1157 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BCR This might be the strangest engine to visit the Moffat...if not ever, then in a very long time! This is a former BC Rail (now Canadian National) C40-8M. BC Rail and Canadian National both ordered several such cowl units, presumably so the crew did not have to walk outside when moving between units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106860 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1080 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF While BNSF has certainly invested in EMD engines in the past decade or so with the purchase of SD70ACes, they still by far prefer GE. In the last decade (or so), BNSF has purchased 810 SD70ACes. By comparison, they've purchased over 2,600 ES44s. So while seeing a BNSF SD70ACe is not super rare, it is also not uncommon to find a train with an all-GE consist. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106861 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1152 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A single ES44DC brings up the tail end of this eastbound Provo-Denver, which consists primarily of tank cars. I framed the image this way because, being the sole DPU unit, the engine is facing the "wrong way" for the most ideal photograph. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106862 Date Shot Photo By Friday, December 15, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1148 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A lone DPU on the tail end of an eastbound BNSF manifest helps to slow the train with its dynamic brakes as the train enters the siding Leyden. This is a telephoto shot from CO-72 looking south at the train, hence the backlighting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.