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Photo ID: 112568
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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CP DS000 (Prospect Junction)
Denver, CO
53
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
The California Zephyr is working on getting out of Denver with nine Superliners in tow. The train is briefly stopped at Prospect Junction, waiting for a conductor to reboard the train after aligning a switch on the Buck Lead.
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Photo ID: 112567
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Union Station
Denver, CO
55
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Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Regional Transportation District
Tried something a little different here, and took a wide shot with the drone. To accomplish this, the drop actually takes 21 pictures and then using internal AI to stitch them together into a wide angle shot. Here, we can see Coors Field, the Denver skyline, and the tracks leading in to Denver Union Station.
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Photo ID: 112566
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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BNSF Engine House
Denver, CO
51
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Yard Shots BNSF
A handful of units sit in the fuel tracks at BNSF's engine house, getting serviced and waiting for their next assignment. Toward the top of the frame, a yard job works on switching out one of the 43 yard tracks.
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Photo ID: 112565
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Union Station
Denver, CO
59
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Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak
As the westbound Zephyr heads out of Union Station, three RTD commuter rail trains are on the roll. On the far left, an A-Line train from Denver International Airport approaches Union Station. It is meeting an N-Line train that is headed out toward Thornton. On the right, above the Zephyr, a G-Line train is arriving from Arvada.
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Photo ID: 112564
Date Shot
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Union Station
Denver, CO
53
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Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak
Denver Union Station is just a couple blocks away from Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies. In this shot, as the westbound Zephyr is departing from Track 4, the train passes by the stadium. From this vantage point, you can see the grounds crew working on the infield.
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Photo ID: 112563
Date Shot
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Union Station
Denver, CO
61
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Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak
Starting this season, the Rocky Mountaineer is actually loading and unloading passengers on Track 5 at Union Station. Here, the westbound Zephyr is on Track 4, nearly ready to depart. The Rocky Mountaineer is running a few minutes late, but is getting ready to depart as well.
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Photo ID: 112562
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Monday, June 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Eisele to Plain (MP 21.8 to MP 24.0)
Arvada, CO
61
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
Just west of Tunnel 1, the morning Zephyr is running about 45 minutes late. You can see Canyon Pines Drive, the road that accesses the new Arvada neighborhood of Canyon Pines. The neighborhood will have custom home builds, but several years into the project, no houses have actually popped up just yet.
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Photo ID: 112561
Date Shot
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Monday, June 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft)
Arvada, CO
63
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
The westbound Zephyr approaches the east portal Tunnel 1 above CO-72 at the base of Coal Creek Canyon. When the Denver and Salt Lake (or, at the time, the Denver, Northwestern, and Pacific) first started investigating routes to head west through The Rockies, Coal Creek Canyon was one of the routes surveyed. The route would have necessitated a 2-3 mile long tunnel. As such, the route along the Front Range and South Boulder Canyon, through the Tunnel District, was chosen instead. Today, of course, CO-72 heads west up Coal Creek Canyon.
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Photo ID: 112560
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Monday, June 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43)
Arvada, CO
59
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
This spring has been quite a bit cooler in the Denver area than the average area, and it certainly has been a wetter spring than on average. In May, 3.9" of rain fell in Arvada, nearly double the average of 2.2" for the month. The result has been the greening up of the area. The valley here at Blue Mountain Drive looks fantastic and alive as the morning Zephyr heads west.
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Photo ID: 112559
Date Shot
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Monday, June 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft)
Arvada, CO
49
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
Since COVID in 2020, the Zephyr has pretty consistently been running with a baggage car and seven Superliners. A few weeks ago, a third coach started appearing on the Zephyr, increasing the length of the train to eight Superliners. On this particular morning, as the Zephyr heads west on the main at Eisele (Clay), the train is a bit longer with nine Superliners in tow. Granted, the very last car is a sleeper that is just deadheading out to California.
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Photo ID: 112558
Date Shot
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Monday, June 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2)
Arvada, CO
49
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
AMTK 51 and AMTK 14 lead the westbound Zephyr by the recent construction site on Big Ten, where Union Pacific spent a few weeks putting new rock down to reinforce the grade here on the north end of Big Ten Curve.
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Photo ID: 112557
Date Shot
Photo By
Monday, June 9, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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CP DS019 (West Rocky)
Arvada, CO
51
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak
After several weeks of overcast, gloomy morning, there isn't a cloud in the sky as the Zephyr departs the west end of Rocky, starting the climb up Big Ten Curve.
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Photo ID: 112556
Date Shot
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Thursday, June 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Rocky (7,330ft)
Arvada, CO
49
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific
Under partly-cloudy skies, a westbound BNSF oil train heads west on the main at Eisele. Most BNSF oil trains have six units on the head end, which are reconfigured 3x3 for the trip east. This train, however, only has three units. BNSF will likely bring in three other units on a different train, dropping them off at the transload facility at Wash.
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Photo ID: 112555
Date Shot
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Thursday, June 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan
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Rocky (7,330ft)
Arvada, CO
55
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific
An SD70M and a well-worn SD70ACe lead a 22-car ballast train. The ballast is in the classic green-ish ballast cars that UP has used for decades. The train is about to leave the siding at Rocky eastbound on a green signal.
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Photo ID: 112554
Date Shot
Photo By
Thursday, June 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan
Location
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Rocky (7,330ft)
Arvada, CO
52
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Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific
After meeting a westbound oil train, whose head end is just coming around Big Ten Loop in the distance, UP 4630 and train are slowly starting to roll eastbound on the siding at Rocky, having receiving a clear (green) signal at the east end.
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