Photo ID: 107084 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1373 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Four BNSF units lead this eastbound Provo-Lincoln manifest down the main at Leyden. The second unit is a somewhat faded SD70MAC...something of a rarity on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107083 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1369 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Need a tank car? The BNSF manifests that run on the Moffat are almost entirely dominated by tank cars. Most of their trackage rights trains are probably 70%+ tank cars these days. A westbound Denver-Provo waits in the siding as an eastbound Provo-Lincoln rolls down the main. The eastbound isn't going too quickly as it is following the West Local and, as such, running on yellows. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107080 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1408 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The westbound Denver-Provo is about to knock down a signal and take the siding at Leyden. UP's eastbound West Local has completed its work on the Rocky Spur and is now headed back toward North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107079 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Leyden Arvada, CO 1455 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A relatively short (and relatively light) Denver-Provo just has three units for power today. No DPUs on the tail end. The train is approaching a diverging approach (red over yellow) signal at East Leyden. The train will take the siding to meet two eastbounds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107072 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1398 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Light is rapidly vanishing from the sky as a BNSF Provo-Denver sits at a red signal in the siding at Leyden. The train has actually been here for about five hours. BNSF had "no room at the inn", holding the train out here at Leyden until some space could be made. A new crew is onboard now, but DS-86 will get the eastbound Zephyr around the train before getting it a light to continue east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107068 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1422 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Some of the doors on the engine doors on the long hood of this C44-9W as it brings up the tail end of a westbound Denver-Provo at the west switch of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107067 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1376 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Illinois Central, CN, BNSF A visitor from the north...sort of...In 1998, Canadian National purchased the Illinois Central railroad. However, CN still identifies the former IC units on its roster. This C40-8W is one of only 42 such units Illinois Central had. Although it now wears standard Canadian National colors, a small "IC" is painted on the cab, indicating the heritage of the unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107066 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1376 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An ET44C4, a Canadian National (lettered as Illinois Central on the cab) C40-8W, and an SD70ACe make for an interesting trio on the point of BNSF's Denver-Provo as it approaches a clear signal at the west end of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107065 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1413 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver-Provo works its way west on the main at Leyden on an warm, overcast morning. Don't usually get the chance to shoot from the north side of the tracks at Leyden, but the cloudy day presented a nice opportunity to do so. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107054 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1181 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Under mostly cloudy (albeit thin clouds) skies, a westbound BNSF sand train slowly makes its way out of Leyden on the Moffat. BNSF is actually doing a lot to keep traffic levels on the Moffat up, and to keep a bit of variety running, too. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107053 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1247 (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 1315 (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 1315 (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 1328 (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 1392 (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.

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