Photo ID: 112117 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lynn to Kyune Carbon County, UT 134 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF BNSF's loaded coal train, headed for the Valmy Power Plant in Nevada, is approaching the Nolan Tunnels on Soldier Summit. Upon reaching Provo, the BNSF crew will get off the train and a UP crew will take over for the trip to Nevada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112116 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lynn to Kyune Carbon County, UT 176 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Provo (UP) BNSF A westbound BNSF coal load is taking on the 2% grade of Soldier Summit on Main 1. The train loaded in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and is now making its way west across the former-Rio Grande. It is ultimately headed for the Valmy Power Plant in Nevada. The two coal-fired generating units at the plant are scheduled to be decommissioned in 2025, so this coal train is likely near the end of its life. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112094 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wash Carbon County, UT 108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF A string of six BNSF units sit on one of the yard tracks at the transload facility at Wash. Three of the units will run around to the east end of a loaded oil train for the trip back east toward Denver and beyond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112038 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Thompson Thompson Springs, UT 122 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF At the grade crossing in Thompson Springs, a westbound BNSF oil train blasts through town at track speed, having just made it up and over the 1% grade of Thompson Hill. The train will now enjoy a downhill grade of around 0.7% in to Green River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112027 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fruita Fruita, CO 101 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Kansas City Southern, BNSF The lighting wasn't fantastic as the train was pointed directly into the sun, but you cannot pass up the chance for a quick roster shot of a Kansas City Southern Belle. Especially considering this paint scheme will be disappearing in the coming years with Kansas City Southern and Canadian Pacific merging to form CPKC. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112026 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fruita Fruita, CO 128 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) BNSF Due to circumstances that I was never able to find out, this eastbound BNSF loaded oil train is actually tied down on the main track at Fruita! No crew is aboard and, as of this shot, no crew had yet been called to come and get on the train to free up the main track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112008 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 166 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's eastbound Provo-Denver manifest passes by the intermediate signal at MP 14.6, just west of Leyden. The train will have a clear shot to run the rest of the way in to Denver after meeting the Rocky Mountaineer at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112007 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Four units, including a Canadian Pacific ES44AC, are on the head end of this eastbound Provo-Denver manifest. From this limited view, it would be easy to confuse this with a unit tank (oil) train. One good tipoff that this is not a unit oil train is the lack of a buffer car behind the power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111989 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 148 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At the start of Golden Hour, you couldn't ask for better light as a westbound BNSF oil empty charges west out of Leyden. BNSF pretty consistently runs their eastbound oil loads in a 3x(0)x3 configuration. Consequently, it makes sense that this westbound empty has six units on the head end. Three of the unit move to the east end of the train for journey back east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111937 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada Siding (MP 6 to MP 7) Arvada, CO 149 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A westbound UP coal empty is ready to charge west on Main 2 at Arvada, as the three DPUs on the tail end of an eastbound BNSF oil train roll by on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111935 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS007 (Arvada) Arvada, CO 187 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 5826 knocks down the signal at CP DS007 at Arvada as it continues east, moving from the main track to Main 1. The switch here at Arvada is a high speed switch. It actually has to switch motors as it has a moveable point frog. Rather than a solid chunk of steel, the frog point moves similar to a switch point. The oil train here is taking the non-diverging route. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111934 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Wadsworth Blvd (Overpass) (MP 7.65) Arvada, CO 170 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF I really enjoy an telephoto shot of a unit train, regardless of what type of unit train it is. The long line of uniformity looks mighty nice to the eye. Here, an eastbound BNSF oil load crosses the Wadsworth Bypass overpass as it approaches the signal at Arvada (CP DS007). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111932 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 200 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, Union Pacific The engineer on the eastbound BNSF oil load has turned the headlights back on the bright after the lead unit of this westbound UP oil empty has passed by. The UP train is headed to a transload facility in Utah. The same place the BNSF train came from. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111930 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 304 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The BNSF train to the left and the UP train to the right are both currently facing south (geographically). However, the BNSF train at Eisele (Clay) is eastbound and the UP train at Rocky is westbound. The UP train will climb up and around Big Ten, taking the siding at Eisele to meet the oil load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111928 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 136 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, BNSF Between late 2018 and early 2019, Kansas City Southern decided to dip a toe into the Tier-4 locomotive lineup, purchasing 25 GE ET44ACs. One example, KCS 5010, just happened to be the second unit on an eastbound BNSF oil train here at Eisele. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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