Photo ID: 105765 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1471 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, BNSF I think the dark blue of the CSX paint scheme contrasts quite nicely with fresh snow on the ground. This ES44AH, and its brother, are taking a BNSF manifest (Denver to Provo) west along with a BNSF C44-9W, which was on the point. The newest CSX logo is an interesting one, is it not? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105764 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1514 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, BNSF A pair of visitors from the east help out a classic Heritage 2 C44-9W on a westbound manifest at Leyden. CSX classifies these units as ES44AHs. They are essentially ES44ACs, but with a few minor differences. First off, they weigh 432,000 pounds instead of 415,000 pounds. They also have software tweaks that, combined with the increased weight, provide for a higher tractive effort at lower speeds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105763 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 4, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1464 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Not only has the amount of traffic on the Moffat taken a pretty serious nose dive, but the traffic that is still running has a tendency to be extremely short! Case-in-point is this BNSF Denver-Provo. It is headed west with only 32 cars! 30 tank cars, a covered hopper, and a box car. The CSX units were a nice surprise, though. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105759 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Parfet Street Arvada, CO 1635 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF The westbound Beer Run slowly shuffles along parallel to Ridge Road and the new RTD Gold Line in western Arvada. It is not uncommon to find such a westbound headed for Golden between 3pm and 5pm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105758 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Parfet Street Arvada, CO 1830 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF The sun is just minutes away from setting behind the mountains in the western sky. With the recent railroad recession, the Beer Run has not necessarily been running daily. In fact, this was the only Beer Run on this Wednesday, east or west! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105757 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Parfet Street Arvada, CO 1658 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Golden (BNSF) BNSF Iron and wires! A westbound Beer Run creeps along at around 10 MPH next to RTD's commuter line, the Gold Line. The overhead catenary will power commuter trains starting in fall 2016. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105720 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1537 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The headlights are off and the crew is getting comfortable! The train is in the clear at Tolland and is now waiting for a pair of eastbounds, both of which are still on the other side of the divide. The temperature outside here is -2°F with some strong winds, bringing the wind chill down to "don't stand outside for more than a few minutes!" Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105719 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1564 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest pulls into the clear in the siding at Tolland. The crew is in for a bit of a wait here as they are going to have to wait for two eastbounds, the first of which is over an hour away! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105698 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plastic (MP 16.1) Arvada, CO 1470 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF About twenty minutes after sunset, a westbound BNSF manifest slowly pulls into the siding at Plain. The train will wait for the eastbound Zephyr, which is running on time. By the time the Zephyr arrived, it was too dark to get any shots. A few more weeks or so and that will no longer be the case! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105697 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1531 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It is well past sunset as this westbound BNSF manifest rolls west down the siding at Plain. The crew on this train is based out of Grand Junction. This is a recent change on BNSF as they eliminated the crew change point in Kremmling. Grand Junction crews now take eastbounds as close to Denver as possible. If they don't make it, a van comes and picks them up and a Denver crew takes the train the rest of the way in. Then, the Grand Junction crew (after staying the night in Denver) takes a westbound back to Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105696 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Coal Creek (MP 23) Arvada, CO 1501 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At the base of Coal Creek Canyon, a trio of BNSF GEs lead a westbound manifest towardan approach (yellow) signal. The train is taking the siding at Plain, but the dispatcher could not get the signal at East Plain to set up. So, after stopping at the red signal, DS-82 will flag the train in to the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105695 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1785 (3 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF About five minutes prior to the arrival of this Denver-Provo, the sun ducked behind the clouds of a building storm to the west. An old (relatively speaking) C44-9W leads BNSFs trackage rights manifest west out of leyden, crossing over Indiana Street. The bridge is still lettered "Rio Grande"! At some point in the future, Arvada plans to widen Indiana Street to four lanes, at which point the bridge will be replaced. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105676 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennyson Street Denver, CO 1665 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A brand new ET44C4 leads BNSF's Provo to Denver shortly before sunrise on New Year's Eve. I actually got shots of this exactly same consist two days earlier, when it was headed west toward Provo! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105675 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 31, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennyson Street Denver, CO 1632 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It is just a few minutes before the sun crests the horizon on a frigid New Year's Eve as an eastbound BNSF manifest approaches Tennyson Street on Main 1. Behind the train and to the right of the frame, you can see a lot of infrastructure for the new RTD Gold Line commuter line, set to open in Fall of 2016. An interesting note is that this is the very last eastbound BNSF train that won't be crewed by a Grand Junction based crew. Starting January 1, 2016, BNSF eliminated the crew change point in Kremmling. Grand Junction crews now take BNSF trains from Grand Junction as far east as they can. It is actually probable that a BNSF train at this location will have a Denver based crew as a Grand Junction crew likely won't be able to reach Denver. So a Denver crew will "dog catch" the train somewhere west of town. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105674 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 1580 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF On a clear, chilly December morning, a trio of GEs head up this BNSF manifest as it knocks down the clear signal at the east switch of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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