The westbound Zephyr is between Tunnel 7 and Tunnel 8 in the heart of the Tunnel District on a beautiful May morning. The train is about to disappear in Tunnel 8 and, after emerging, the plains will no longer be visible. Tunnels 1-7 are along the eastern slope of the Front Range of the Rockies, but Tunnel 8 curves the tracks around the northeast face of Elderado Mountain, into the Rockies for the journey west.
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As an afternoon storm moves in over the Rockies, the eastbound Zephyr approaches a clear signal at the west switch of Leyden. Ten years ago, there’d be hardly any structures at all in this shot. Arvada annexed the land west of Leyden (on the south side of the tracks) and a new neighborhood - Leyden Rock - is now nearly complete.
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