Photo ID: 108615 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 845 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 10 is looking at a signal that recently cleared (turned green). The engineer is putting the proverbial pedal to the metal as the train starts accelerating. As far as trains go, the Zephyr can actually start and reach track speed quite fast because it is so light relative to other trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108614 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 812 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After meeting an eastbound BNSF manifest and now looking at a clear signal, both P42s on this morning's Zephyr throttle up as they start pulling west, ready to accelerate up to track speed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108613 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 936 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Zephyr sits patiently on the main at Leyden as it waits for BNSF's Provo-Denver to clear the west switch at Leyden. The dispatcher has a route "stacked" in to the computer and, as soon as the manifest clears the switch in the siding, the switch will align for the main and Amtrak will get a clear signal to continue west! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108612 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 830 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF With as few trains running on the Moffat these days as there are, the dispatcher is probably a bit out of practice in timing perfect meets! The Zephyr sat on the main at the west end of Leyden for about ten minutes while waiting for BNSF's Provo-Denver to show up. A Rocky meet would have been a bit more expeditious for the Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108611 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 831 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A fairly short BNSF Provo-Denver approaches a Diverging Approach (red over yellow) signal at the west end of Leyden while it passes over Indiana Street in West Arvada. The train already has a signal out the other end of the siding to continue on toward Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108610 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 825 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak 30 years ago, Leyden was considered to be "out in the boonies". Now, it is in the middle of suburbia! The Zephyr has the neighborhood of Five Parks on the left side of the shot and some older neighborhoods as well as one of Arvada's four high schools, Ralston Valley, on the right side of the shot. The Zephyr here is stopped on the main, waiting for BNSF's Provo-Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108609 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 837 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak In roughly two weeks, the Zephyr will be returning as a daily train on the Moffat! Until then, it is still a thrice-weekly train. Tuesday is one of the days it heads west, and here heading west on the main at Leyden under gloomy skies. Great to see nine Superliners back in the consist! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108608 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 802 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It has been raining off and on all day, which has helped to really saturate the colors as the MGJNY comes rolling east out of Leyden. This is now one of only six (regularly scheduled) manifests that UP runs on the Moffat in the course of any given week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108607 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 836 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific At the east switch of Leyden, just about nine miles west of UP's North Yard, a trio of GEs lead the thrice-weekly manifest from Grand Junction to North Yard tries to stay ahead of the rain as storm clouds roll east off the Rockies. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108606 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 829 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An SD70ACe and an ES44AC bring up the tail end of an eastbound BNSF coal load. UP coal trains typically run in a 2x3x1 configuration on the Moffat. That is because the three mid-train swing helpers are then removed in Denver. BNSF, however, will not be removing any power from the train, which is configured 2x2x2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108605 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 928 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF About five years ago, BNSF experimented with a rebuild program in association with Progress Rail. A total of 24 SD70MACs were give brand new electronics and traction motors. Their designation was changed from "SD70MAC" to "SD70MACe". Not sure the reasoning, but it appears those 24 units were the only ones to go through the program. BNSF 9730 is one of the two dozen units to receive the rebuild (and a fresh coat of paint, going from the Heritage 2 scheme to the New Image scheme). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108604 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 800 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It has been a particularly wet spring along the Front Range here in Colorado. No complaints from me as the moisture is really starting to green up the entire Denver-metro area! A pair of mid-train 70-series mid-train swing helpers roll by nose-to-nose in this BNSF coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108603 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 846 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF continues to be the railroad that runs the most trains on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Here, an eastbound BNSF coal load, which loaded in Utah, rolls east near the Simms Street grade crossing just east of Leyden. This is actually one of two BNSF coal loads on the Moffat at the time of this shot. The second was just out of Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108602 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 828 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF coal load rolls east on the main just east of Leyden. Although not super common, BNSF does sometimes load coal trains in Utah and run them over the Moffat via their trackage rights. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108601 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 29, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 840 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 7350 passes by what used to be Chemical at the east end of Barbara's Gulch. Until a few years ago, Mesa Oil was located here, right off the Moffat. They ended up becoming very unhappy with the service UP was providing and moved to another location in Denver. There, they are serviced by the short line Denver and Rock Island. The rumor I heard was that UP was refusing to bring the west local out to Mesa Oil more than once a week. A year or two after Mesa Oil left, UP removed the frog for the switch that runs up the spur...a spur that very possibly will never be used again. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

Previous Page     Next Page