Photo ID: 112709 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak There was a time when the tracks at Union Station were all CTC controlled by a local dispatcher. Then, for years, the station tracks were all uncontrolled yard tracks, as the Zephyr was virtually the only train to use the station. Now, the tracks are once again under the control of CTC, and Denver's RTD (Regional Transportation District) owns and dispatches the tracks. A-Line and N-Line tracks are the two commuter line tracks to the left. B-Line and G-Line tracks are the two commuter line tracks to the right. "Heavy" trains, such as Amtrak, the Winter Park Express, and Rocky Mountaineer, use the center track to get to Track 4 and Track 5 at Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112708 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 2 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak Union Station's Passenger Lead track passes beneath the intersection of Park Avenue and Delgany Street. With all the switches and derails verified to be properly aligned, the train is making a reverse movement beneath the intersection toward Denver Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112707 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 2 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak On a mostly overcast evening, the sun breaks through for a few minutes to light up a pair of GE units sitting near the BNSF Engine House while the eastbound Zephyr backs down the Passenger Lead to Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112706 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak While making a reverse move off of Coal 2, the Zephyr kicks up a bit of dust when the air compressor let go a bit of air. The train is headed for its evening station stop at Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112705 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 2 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak On the north side of the South Platte River, the front half of the Zephyr has re-entered CTC limits and is on a track called Coal 2. This track, and the next two to the right, are all in CTC, with Coal 1 being next to the Zephyr, and the main next to that. A BNSF switch job is preparing to pull forward even further to the right of the frame. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112704 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak The evening Zephyr is crossover over a couple of tracks in order to make a reverse move on the Passenger Lead toward Union Station. The South Platte River separates BNSF's Denver Yard from its Engine Facility. Three tracks cross the river, and those three tracks tend to be very busy most of the time as switch job use the tracks for a lead, mainline trains running to or from the Joint Line come through, trains headed for Rennicks and the Moffat come through here, and engine moves come through. This stretch of track is all yard limits and there is no CTC here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112703 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 2 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak The Zephyr is working on the somewhat arduous process of arriving at Denver Union Station. It is coming around the wye track from Prospect Jct, and will cross across several tracks and will ultimately enter Coal 2 in order to clear the Passenger Lead Switch in order to make a reverse move into Union Station. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112702 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS001 (Fox Junction) Denver, CO 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr has roughly a mile remaining on UP rails for this trip. The train is on Main 2 between Fox Jct and Prospect Jct. After making its scheduled stop at Union Station, the train will move over to BNSF rails for the remaining of the trip to Chicago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112699 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detector (MP 22.6) Arvada, CO 2 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 51 and AMTK 203 lead the eastbound Zephyr through the hotbox detector at MP 22.6 at Blue Mountain Drive. The detector would reveal that the temperature is currently 76°F (25°C), the train approaching the grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112698 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 30, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The evening Zephyr is running a little over an hour late as it glides down the grade toward the west portal of Tunnel 1. The final tunnel the train will pass through between here at Chicago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112687 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Three P42DCs lead the Zephyr west at Utah Jct, under what might just be the last-remaining Rio Grande signal bridge on the former Rio Grande. The searchlight signals on the bridge are also some of the last Rio Grande signals still in operation in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112686 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 25 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The California Zephyr is on UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub, crossing over the diamond for the Belt Lead at Utah Jct, at the north end of North Yard. This is the second consecutive day that the train is running with three P42DCs. Not sure why...perhaps just a power move to California. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112685 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard to Utah Jct (MP 3.0 to MP 3.2) Denver, CO 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr has three P42DCs on the head end today on a train whose number today is 1005 instead of 5. The train purposefully departed Chicago four hours late the day before, with the entire schedule delayed by four hours, all the way to Emeryville, CA. As such, an on time departure from Denver would have been 12:46pm. The train was about an hour delayed when it finally departed, now passing by North Yard to the right, and Rennicks yard to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112667 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 29 (MP 36.4, 75 ft) Boulder County, CO 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak This location is something of a classic on the Moffat, as the Zephyr wraps around the tight curve on the approach to Tunnel 29, the shortest tunnel in the Tunnel District at only 75 feet in length. My dad has a shot of the Rio Grande Zephyr, with DRGW 5771 leading, from roughly this same perspective. Note the slight discoloration in the rock by the final Superliner, This used to be Tunnel 28, but was daylights decades ago due to cave-ins. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112666 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 26 (MP 35.2, 320 ft) Boulder County, CO 22 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Deep in the Tunnel District, just west of Tunnel 26, passenger aboard the California Zephyr enjoy the views that only the Zephyr can bring! The train is high above South Boulder Creek, heading toward Tunnel 27. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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