Photo ID: 106358 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1433 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Apologies for the grainly/low-light shot here. It is nearly a half hour past sunset as this BNSF Denver-Provo manifest heads slowly west at Leyden. The train would have arrived much sooner (and with more light), but it developed engine problems after leaving Denver and creeped up and in to Leyden at 10 MPH. The train will stop ahead between switches to figure out the problem. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106357 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1338 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I never get tired of a nice long lens shot of a train traversing the S-Curves at the bottom of Coal Creek Canyon. This westbound copper train is move away from the photographer, a pair of DPUs bringing up the tail end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106356 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1276 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF GAH! Dang poles! How great would this shot be if it weren't for the poles littering the tracks to the right. A trio of units leads this BNSF westbound as the two DPUs swing around in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106355 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1265 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A winter scene that I never get tired of! An ES44DC and an SD70ACe bring up the tail end of a loaded copper train that is headed for Provo, UT. This is one of those unusual BNSF train that will occasionally pop up on the Moffat. I don't recall the last time there was a unit gondola train on the Moffat! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106354 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1261 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This westbound BNSF copper train shows off 20 years of paint schemes! The original "Heritage" scheme is worn by the center C44-9W. A fan favorite of many railfans to this day! Leading is a C44-9W with the "Heritage 2" scheme, which replaced the Heritage scheme only after a year or two. And third up is the so called "New Image" scheme. First unveiled in 2005, this scheme came out when Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad was reorganized as simply BNSF Railway. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106353 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1348 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A shot that has no doubt been captured thousands of times by hundreds of photographers over the years...a westbound train pulling through the S-Curves on the approach to the Blue Mountain Road Crossing. Even if the framing is the same, the content is ever-changing! Here, a BNSF unit gondola train fills the shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106352 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1099 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I love winter in Colorado! The snowy landscape of the Moffat is just so photogenic. A westbound BNSF unit gondola copper train trudges slowly west on the approach to the east end of Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106351 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1325 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In addition to its standard manifest traffic on the Moffat, BNSF will occasionally send other trains over the Moffat. Such is the case on this snowy afternoon when BNSF ran a "copper train" west. The train is a unit train of open top gondolas, seen here between Leyden and Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106348 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1380 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest, with five ES44DCs (well, the last two units are ES44C4s), is headed east through Leyden on a clear signal. Soon, the Grand Junction based crew will arrive in Denver and begin their rest period before taking a westbound manifest back home to Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106347 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1463 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF When I was a kid, it was commonplace to see railroads running trains in which the engines all had the same paint scheme. After the merger frenzy of the 1990s, paint schemes became a jumbled grab bag of whose-was-who. It has finally been long enough...twenty years later...that it becoming more and more common to see trains in which all engines wear the same scheme. Case-in-point is this eastbound BNSF manifest with a match set of five ES44DCs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106346 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1588 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A quintet of ES44DCs lead the eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver manifest down the main at Leyden on a snowy January morning. Based on the plow, looks like there is even better snow in the high country. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106345 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 88th Avenue Westminster, CO 1892 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A single ES44AC brings up the tail end of a northbound coal empty. The train is crossing 88th Avenue on the Front Range Sub. If you look in the distance just to the left of the train, you can see a couple of apartment buildings. I actually lived in those building for about 18 months when I was in college! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106344 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 88th Avenue Westminster, CO 1920 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) BNSF A northbound coal empty headed for the Powder River Basin approaches the 88th Avenue grade crossing in Boulder. The overpass in the distance is that of Sheridan Blvd. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106281 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 31, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Littleton Littleton, CO 1818 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF A pair of SD70ACes lead a southbound BNSF coal train from the CTC triple track and onto Main 1, controlled by UP DS-54 under track warrants. To the left, you can see the south end of the RTD's C/D Light Rail line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106275 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 12, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1654 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It is a beautiful Colorado morning in December, and this eastbound BNSF manifest sports quite a load of power! Seven units (not all of which are online) lead up the Lincoln, NE-bound train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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