Photo ID: 110209 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 72nd Avenue (MP 10.23) Arvada, CO 414 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This is a scene that is going to change rather substantially over the course of the next two years or so. The City of Arvada will be widening 72nd Avenue to four lanes, while also creating a grade separation with the tracks. So this grade crossing, at which several cars are stopped for the eastbound oil train, will soon be disappearing and cars will pass underneath the tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110208 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 307 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Just east of the overpass over CO-72 at the base of Coal Creek Canyon, a trio of ES44s are serving as mid-train swing helpers on this eastbound oil train. You can also clearly see the single SD70ACe-T4 that is bringing up the rear of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110207 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 478 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific This scene is a very well known one to railfans, including many that have never visited Colorado. You can view nearly an entire train as it wraps down the grade from Tunnel, through the curves and across Blue Mountain Drive. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110206 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detector (MP 22.6) Arvada, CO 440 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The head end of a UP oil train passes by the detector at MP 22.6, just west of the grade crossing at Blue Mountain Drive. Across CO-72 in the distance, three GEs are serving as mid-train swing helpers on the train, descending from Tunnel 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110205 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 411 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific The movement of earth is quite apparent in the background for the new Canyon Pines Subdivision. You can clearly see asphalt on Canyon Pines Drive, but no houses just yet. A loaded oil train makes it was down from Tunnel 1 and around the loop at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110204 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 356 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Red and yellow are the colors of the day as a UP ES44AC and a CP ES44AC lead an oil train east down the grade from Tunnel 1 toward the base of Coal Creek Canyon. Construction of the new Canyon Pines Subdivision is visible to the left. Still no sign of any houses being built. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110203 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS024 (East Plain) Arvada, CO 404 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound unit oil train passes through the east OS of Plain on the main track, right at MP 24. Off in the distance, you can clearly see the Valmont powerplant. The powerplant was fueled by coal when it was in operation. However, Xcel Energy shut the power plant down in 2017. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110202 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Gilpin County, CO 355 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific On the main at Cliff, the tracks cross over South Boulder Creek. UP 7830 and CP 8941 are on the main, leading an eastbound oil train across said bridge. The train is a unit oil train, although you cannot see any tank cars in this shot. The only car visible is a covered hopper, which serves as a buffer car, to protect the power from the oil they are carrying. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110201 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS038 (West Cliff) Gilpin County, CO 417 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An loaded oil train rolls east on the main track at Cliff, about 12 miles east of the Moffat Tunnel. The snow covered peak in the distance is James Peak. This peak is 13,294 feet above sea level, and the Moffat Tunnel runs nearly underneath the mountain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110200 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins to Tolland (MP 41.2 to MP 45.8) Gilpin County, CO 378 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific An eastbound oil train crosses over the dirt road that leads to the Moffat Tunnel. This road carries quite a bit of traffic year round, as a lot of folks enjoy hiking around the Moffat Tunnel in the summer, and cross country skiing around it in the winter. Most probably pay little attention to UP 7830 and CP 8941. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110199 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins to Tolland (MP 41.2 to MP 45.8) Gilpin County, CO 348 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP oil train is coming up to Rollins, and the valley floor opens up a bit. Would not complain about living here, alongside the tracks and South Boulder Creek! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110198 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins to Tolland (MP 41.2 to MP 45.8) Gilpin County, CO 374 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This time of year, the valley east of Tolland only barely gets any sunlight, even in the middle of the day. The sun is so far to the south, the south mountains of the valley block the sun. Fortunately, there is just enough sunlight to light up a UP ES44AC and a CP ES44AC, leading an eastbound loaded oil train across South Boulder Creek. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110197 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins to Tolland (MP 41.2 to MP 45.8) Gilpin County, CO 460 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific You cannot beat a scene like this, in the middle of winter in the Colorado Rockies. This oil train is headed east on the highest Class 1 mainline in the country. It is a straight line back past east Tolland and on the main. The Continental Divide stands tall in the background, the valley the train is entering lined with pine trees. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110196 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS047 (East Tolland) Gilpin County, CO 411 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The head end of this eastbound oil train is out of Tolland. If you look back in the distance, you can see a single UP SD70ACe-T4 bringing up the tail end of the train. Further in the distance, on the mountain side, you can see the route the tracks once took, prior to the Moffat Tunnel, that ran up and over Rollins Pass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110195 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 28, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS047 (East Tolland) Gilpin County, CO 430 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP oil train is dwarfed by the Continental Divide and the clouds that are trying to blow over the top of it. The train is on the main at Tolland, just passing through the clear (green) signal at the east end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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