With so few trains running on the Moffat these days, catching a meet anywhere is always nice. Leyden used to see multiple meets every day. Here on November 5, this is only the third meet at Leyden in the last five days, since the start of the month. The westbound Zephyr is meeting the eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver.
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A longer-than-usual westbound Zephyr meets an eastbound BNSF manifest at Leyden. The Zephyr has pretty consistently been running with six Superliners since COVID has hit. Today, however, it has eight cars. The second-to-last car is actually an Amtrak California car, likely being returned to California after a stop at the maintenance shop in Beech Grove, IN.
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After meeting the morning westbound Zephyr at Leyden, this BNSF Provo-Denver is rolling east out of the siding toward Denver. The train may have to wait at Tennyson Street or possibly Utah Junction for a bit due to "several moves" that the dispatcher is setting up at Utah Jct. Fortunately, the crew can remain on duty until 12:01pm.
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This eastbound BNSF manifest is on the roll after a meet at Leyden, about a mile to the west. Here, the train is crossing Simms Street in Arvada. Simms Street, as with most of the grade crossing in Arvada, is now a quiet zone, meaning trains do not use their horns (unless someone is in the way).
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A single C44-9W brings up the tail end of the Provo-Denver. As you can see, the unit is facing in to the train, so this shot from above the train looking at the unit seemed appropriate.
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Now that we are in to November and no longer on daylight savings time, light is being lost very early in the evening. The MGJNY, with UP 1996 on the point, spent multiple hours dropping a car in the house track at Rollins. So, by the time it reached Blue Mountain, the lighting was all but gone. So this was the first test of a low-light shot using the Mavic Air 2.
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With the lighting all but gone, I decided to try to fly the Mavic Air 2 parallel to the MGJNY and approximate the speed. Other than some graininess, the result was not horrible. The train is more-or-less clear and the ground has a pretty good speed blur to it.
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