Photo ID: 113093 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 15, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr has reduced its length from nine Superliners to seven Superliners, cutting one sleeper and one coach. This is pretty common at the end of the summer, when demand for Amtrak rail travel decreases a bit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113092 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 15, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 289 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Two Patrick Henry cars are catching a ride on the back of the westbound California Zephyr. The Zephyr is taking the siding at Rocky to meet an eastbound BNSF manifest, which you can see holding the main in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113091 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 15, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 250 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 169 leads the westbound Zephyr this morning, the train coming around the curve at the narrow, west end of Barbara's Gulch. The train is passing underneath CO-93, on the approach to the east end of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113090 Date Shot Photo By Monday, September 15, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 329 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A relatively short BNSF Provo-Denver has slowed to a stop on the main at Rocky. The westbound Zephyr departed just a few minutes late and is on its way west in Barbara's Gulch. Not quite sure why DS-378 held BNSF on the main rather than routing them into the siding. It is also a fairly short manifest today. Maybe 40-45 cars. No DPUs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113089 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Bijou Creek Byers, CO 237 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific UP 6168 and the rest of the Limon Local cross the relatively long bridge over West Bijou Creek. At this time of year, there currently is no creek at all. It is entirely dried up! Something of note with the power on the train is the fact that both of the first two units once sported scarlet and gray, as they were both once rostered on Espee's roster! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113088 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kiowa Creek Bennett, CO 264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific UP's Limon Local crosses over the almost entirely dried up Kiowa Creek on the east edge of Bennett, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113087 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bennett Bennett, CO 217 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific In the small town of Bennett, CO, UP's Limon Local charges east onto the Colorado plains. The control tower you see in the distance is not that of Denver Internal Airport, but rather Colorado Air and Space Port, a public airport located less than 9 miles southeast of DIA. The plane almost directly above the control tower is landing at DIA. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113086 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Mesa to Watkins Denver, CO 246 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific A quick roster shot of snoot-nose SD40-2 UP 1837. The longer "snoot-nose" once held extra radio equipment. I don't think it is actually used for anything like that today. Still, looks a little different from most of the other SD40-2s built! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113085 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP K625 (East Mesa) Denver, CO 266 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Just east of the east switch of Mesa, UP's Limon Local is leaving CTC behind and has entered into Track Warrant territory. They have a track warrant out to near Deer Trail, CO. That warrant will not get them all the way to Limon. The reason for the warrant only going that far is due to the fact they are following an eastbound coal load which has only made it as far east as Deer Trail. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113084 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 156 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) LTEX The Limon Local pulls toward a green signal at Roydale. Here, Main 2 collapses into Main 1, creating a single track main. Not far east of here is the west switch of the siding of Sable. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113083 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 253 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Okay, it is time to depart! UP 1837, a snoot-nose SD40-2, puts on a bit of an exhaust show as the engineer throttle up to start pulling the (roughly) 40 car Limon Local eastbound on Main 1 toward a green signal. UP 6168 was delivered as SP 139 in April 1995. I was a sophomore in high school at the time, and remember seeing those new scarlet and gray units sometimes when I was getting lunch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113082 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 205 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Regional Transportation District As the Limon Local works to build its train in the Stapleton Yard, a four-car RTD A-Line commuter train comes screaming by on the way from Union Station out to Denver International Airport. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113081 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 234 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific This is an interesting trio of power for the Limon Local. The snoot-nose SD40-2, delivered to Union Pacific March 1978, has had a bit of tagging on it. That stands in sharp contrast to UP 1484, whose paint looks pristine. The paint on UP 6168 doesn't look bad...just a bit dirty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113080 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 247 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific The conductor on the Limon Local gives a hand signal to the engineer, letting him know to slow as UP 6168 is about to attach to the two units and string of cars in the track. Meanwhile, a utility man starts walking over to offer his assistance to the impending switching moves. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113079 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 14, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Stapleton Denver, CO 150 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) LTEX With LTEX 3842 now secure with the first half of cars for the Limon Local, UP 6168 is back up on the next track to pick up a GP40N and SD40-2 to help with the move east to Limon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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