Photo ID: 107899 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, November 16, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Tolland Gilpin County, CO 1293 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running about two hours late, the westbound Zephyr is trying to make up some time as it follows South Boulder Creek between Rollins and Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107892 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 15, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 1015 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr has clear signals up the east slope of the Moffat as it passes by the east switch of Eisele. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107891 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 15, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 1050 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr knocks down a clear signal at the east switch of Eisele (Clay). Still getting used to flying the new drone, I snapped the shot a smidge later than intended, but it still works pretty well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107890 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 15, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 1153 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Approaching the west switch of Rocky, the California is running about two hours late, but has clear signals westbound. It'll meet an eastbound waiting in the siding at Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107858 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 30, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1184 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Due to some extreme weather conditions in the mid-west, the westbound Zephyr got dinged pretty bad and departed Denver about 8 1/2 hours late this Thursday afternoon. Unfortunately, it would only get (slightly) worse for passengers as the train was 10 1/2 hours late by the time it reached Emeryville. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107854 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1479 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The passengers look out of the Sightseer Lounge car at a frozen, white, winter wonderland. Unfortunately, no views of the plains will be available on this frigid afternoon as the train makes it way west, up and in to the Rockies. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107853 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1699 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr is moving at track speed as it clips through a February blizzard west of Leyden. It is just a few minutes before noon and the snow really picked up within the past hour. It is falling at a rate of about 1 1/2 inches per hour, making for some extreme, but beautiful, conditions for photography. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107852 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1705 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The two P42DCs on the point of the Zephyr is about all you can see emerging from the blizzard. The train is about three hours late on this morning, but regardless of the delay, I am sure passengers are very happy to be warm on board the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107851 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1391 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is running about three hour behind schedule as it starts to become visible through a vicious February blizzard that has a lot of snow and wind and a temperature of only 15°F (-9°C) out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107850 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 28, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1233 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Ahhh, Colorado weather! At 4am, there was not a cloud in the sky. By 8am, there was over three inches of fresh snow and it was still coming down. Highways were shut down in the Denver-Metro area and commutes to school that usually take 15 minutes were taking an hour or more. Then, by noon, the sun was out and snow was melting. Here, at 3:30pm, the roads were just west and was able to easily get track side to capture a seven hour late Zephyr just west of Leyden amongst the freshly fallen snow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107849 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 28, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1324 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On a snowy January afternoon, a tardy westbound Zephyr has excellent afternoon light. Bad weather on the plains contributed to the train being seven hours late out of Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107848 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 28, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1359 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A crazy morning blizzard dumped close to six inches of snow. By this afternoon, the sun was shining bright as a seven hour late Zephyr kicks up snow just west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107844 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 11, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1638 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Winter may make for cold temperatures and bad driving conditions, but it also makes for some of the best train photography! The second (Friday) run of the Winter Park Express was a bit delayed getting out of town. Which worked out perfect for me as I had just dropped off kids at school and was on my way home when it showed up! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107843 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 11, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1498 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Skiers are going to enjoy hitting the slopes today! The westbound Winter Park Express is cutting through a morning blizzard on its journey to Winter Park. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107822 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 4, 2019 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS004 (Pecos X-Over) Denver, CO 1307 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On a beautiful January morning, the California Zephyr approaches Pecos Crossover on Main 3. In mid-2018, Amtrak executives had said that no long distance Amtrak trains would run over any stretch of track that did not have Positive Train Control (PTC) implemented. Fortunately, they backed down on that as several train, including the Zephyr, would have been impacted. The former Grande between Grand Junction and Helper does not have PTC (and UP currently has no plans to add it). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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