Photo ID: 107053 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1213 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Dang! Not only was I lucky enough to catch a UP SD70ACe leading a coal empty earlier in the day, but I was lucky enough to catch another SD70ACe on the point of a unit sand train. And this was was BNSF, which is even more of a rarity! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107052 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1275 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just west of Leyden, a BNSF unit sand train is pulling hard, but moving slow! This sand is fracking sand, which will be used to extract oil from wells in Utah. It is entirely possible this power will be used on a loaded oil train on the trip back east in the not-too-distant future. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107036 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1280 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of ES44ACs bring up the tail end of this eastbound oil train at Leyden. The temperature outside is about 28°F and quite a bit of snow is still on the ground from the weekend snow storm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107035 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1279 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As time marches onward, I like to get shots of defunct paint schemes when I can as they aren't going to last forever! And, as such, here is a shot of a "green and cream" SD70MAC. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107034 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF For the second time in nine days, BNSF ran a loaded oil train over the Moffat. The power for this train was the same as the power on a loaded sand train that ran west four three days earlier. Efficient use of power! The fact that BNSF ran a sand train west suggests that another oil train (or several more oil trains) will be coming. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107033 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1685 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An SD70MAC (in the "green and cream" scheme) and an SD70ACe bring up the tail end of a westbound sand train as it leaves the west end of Leyden. The train is going to be slow rolling on its journey west up the hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107032 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1567 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A westbound BNSF sand train has a "pre-production" ES44AC on the point. The very first ES44ACs that BNSF got from GE were painted in the Heritage 2 scheme. They were released just before the "New Image" or "Swoosh" scheme came out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107031 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1650 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF sent a loaded sand train west out of Denver during this great January blizzard. The train, rolling very slowly west at Leyden, has a "cigar band" (pre-production) ES44AC on the point, leading an ES44C4 and an SD70ACe. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106999 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1213 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It is not super common to find a train with a single engine on the point, particularly on the Moffat. However, when BNSF runs an empty sand train, the power tends to be configured with one unit on the point and a single DPU on the back. All these covered hoppers are empty, so the train is (relatively) light. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106998 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1188 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After a snowstorm 24 hours earlier, the storm and clouds moved out overnight, bringing in an arctic chill! An eastbound empty BNSF sand train rolls east on a yellow signal at Leyden in the morning light of the 7°F day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106997 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 15, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1658 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF There was a relatively brief period in 2015, when oil prices were much higher, it looked as though oil trains might become a regular staple on the Moffat. Both BNSF and UP seemed to run about one a week. However, when prices dropped and it became less economical to ship by rail, the new trains all but evaporated! BNSF still runs one...occasionally...though they are hard to predict. One happened to be rolling east here at Leyden on Martin Luther King Day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106996 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 15, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1524 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This winter has been a relatively mild one along the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. Temperatures have been in the 50°Fs on a fairly regular basis and snow has been all but non-existent. So it was quite nice to get a shot of a loaded oil train kicking up some of the white stuff on Martin Luther King Day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106995 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 15, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1508 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Despite the fact that "green and cream" SD70MACs were very plentiful on Joint Line coal trains, these units have never had much of a presence on BNSF trains on the Moffat. So it is always nice to come across one, such as on this eastbound oil train that is headed out of Leyden. The SD70MAC is the final DPU on the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106994 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 15, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1612 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Finally! Snow! It has been 25 days since there was any measurable snow in the Denver-Metro area, but a quick moving storm dropped several inches of the white stuff on this day. An eastbound BNSF loaded oil train rolls down the main at Leyden on a clear signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106993 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 15, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1505 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF oil train, which loaded in Wellington, UT, makes it way through some freshly fallen snow at Leyden. A few flakes are still falling, though the storm is starting to wind down. It was a chilly 17°F out! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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