Photo ID: 105927 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1353 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF With the elimination of Kremmling as a crew change point for BNSF, Grand Junction-based crews now run trains the entire stretch between Grand Junction and Denver (and vice versa). At least, they run them as close as they can get them! The crew on the manifest (with a pair of borrowed CN units) went on duty at 7:30am. Being that it is now 6:20pm, that gives them 70 minutes to make it to the yard. They probably could have made it, except that a traffic jam (which included Amtrak) at Utah Jct blocked all routes for the train. The crew is going to tie it down here and head for the hotel. A Denver-based crew will come and get the train later and take it the remaining 12 miles to the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105926 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1266 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National With as infrequently as a Canadian National unit comes through Colorado, I decided to take advantage on this snowy Wednesday and get as many pictures as I could of these two, leading a BNSF manifest on the Moffat. Other than a little dirt, this SD70M-2 is looking sharp! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105925 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1334 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF With only 70 minutes left on the clock and no clear route in to the yard in Denver, this eastbound BNSF manifest has been instructed to tie their train down and wait for a van to pick them up. If you look closely, you can see the orange reflective vest of the conductor through the tree to the right. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105924 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1285 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF The red in the Canadian National units really make the wintery scene at Leyden pop. The Canadian units are leading a BNSF manifest east in the siding at Leyden. The train will stop at the east end and the crew will tie the train down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105923 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1370 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National In my opinion, Canadian National has a pretty descent scheme, as far as schemes go. I do find it interesting that they put their website on each engine...not a bad marketing strategy. This ES44DC is second out on BNSF's Provo-Denver trackage rights train, taking the siding at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105922 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1290 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National I have to admit that I was pretty happy about getting this particular shot. First off, I only see a Canadian National unit once every couple years (on average). Second, this is an SD70M-2, the DC version of the SD70ACe. Neither UP nor BNSF bought any of these, making them extremely rare in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105921 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1378 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF It is always fun to see foreign power in Colorado! Particularly foreign power that is seldom seen here in the middle of the United States. BNSF was borrowing a pair of Canadian National units on this particular day. Originally, there were three of the red, white, and black units, but one was pulled off the train in Provo, UT. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105920 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1317 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian National, BNSF This eastbound BNSF manifest has a pair of foreign visitors running on the point! The train, with two Canadian National units on the point, was called in Grand Junction at 7:30am and had a good run east toward Denver. The train is now taking the siding at Leyden (where it will tie down) as there is currently no route in to the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105886 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1270 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Chicago North Western On was on the wrong side of the train (light-wise) to get a great shot of this guy, but thought it was worth adding, regardless. A former CNW AC4400CW assists on this westbound coal empty. Prior to being assimilated by Union Pacific, this unit was CNW 8820. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105707 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 9, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1543 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Chicago North Western It has been quite some time since I've seen one of these! A patched Chicago Northwestern AC4400CW actually has some of its patchwork wearing off. You can pretty clearly see that this was once CNW 8819. This is one of 35 such units that Chicago Northwestern got right before becoming a part of Union Pacific. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104900 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 14, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 1549 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Canadian National For the second time in a week, I caught a Canadian National unit spending some time on BNSF. With the recent need for power, Class 1 railroads seem to be sharing more power among themselves. This SD75I is one of 172 such units on Canadian National's roster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104877 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1460 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian National, BNSF This southbound train with very unique power is tied down in the siding at North Yard in Fort Collins (right at milepost 76)! A Great Western crew brought the train to this point (it was interchanged from the Great Western). A BNSF crews has been called out of Cheyenne and was enroute at the time of this picture. Upon arrival, the crew would untie the train and take it to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104876 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard (7,295ft) Fort Collins, CO 1472 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Front Range (BNSF) Canadian National Canadian National has a fair number of "cowl" units, meaning the walkways along the sides of the unit are inside the car body rather than outside. Internally this unit is simply a GE C40-8. Since it has the cowl body, it is designated as a C40-8M. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104702 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 20, 2014 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1581 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Chicago North Western Two of the mid-train swing helpers on this eastbound coal load happened to be former (patched) CNW AC4400CWs. These units are really starting to look beat up as their paint schemes are getting close to being 20 years old. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 103820 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2011 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 88.6 Bill, WY 1541 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) Chicago North Western, Union Pacific Burlington Northern built the south end of the Orin Sub in the late 1970's, completing the connection with the north end in 1979. Chicago North Western was interested in helping finance the operation, but didn't have the money (Union Pacific would end up helping instead). Interesting now to see a (patched) CNW AC4400CW leading a westbound (geographic northbound) coal empty on Main 3 some 32 years later. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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