Photo ID: 107724 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1301 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Fall looks and feels more like winter as a UP officer's special heads west out of Leyden. It is lightly raining and is 30°F outside. The headlights from the lead unit glowing in the wintery fog. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107723 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1422 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This is a scene that has changed rather drastically over the course of the previous five years. Back in 2013, you would not have seen any houses in the shot. Now, however, the Arvada neighborhood of Leyden Rock has hundreds of houses on the south side of the tracks. A C44-9W leads an eastbound BNSF manifest on clear signals by the new neighborhood. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107722 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1413 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF manifest, totalling less than 30 cars, rolls east on the main just west of Leyden, parallel to CO-72. Interestingly, the train wound up with five units despite the relatively short train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107721 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A short eastbound BNSF manifest approaches a clear signal at MP 14.6 on a chilly, damp, and overcast October morning. The train has a straight shot to the yard downtown. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107720 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1269 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Fall is setting in to the Denver area in a big way in the second week of October. No snow on the ground in the metro area yet, but temperatures have dropped down in to the 30°F range. An eastbound BNSF manifest winds through foggy curves at Blue Mountain after meeting a westbound at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107719 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1286 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single ES44AC brings up the tail end of an eastbound empty grain train at Leyden. The train was rerouted over the ex-Grande due to a derailment in Wyoming that has two of the three mainlines blocked. Fortunate that UP has the Moffat as an auxiliary route for the Overland. Well, for everything except double stacks... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107718 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1231 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Due to a tragic collision on the Overland in Wyoming (about 20 miles west of Cheyenne), UP ha been rerouting some trains (mainly grain empties) over the Moffat. Here, one such rerouted empty is on the main at Leyden, approach an advanced approach signal at the east end. The train will tie down in the North Yard siding for the time being upon arrival in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107717 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1228 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70ACe-T4 leads a short MPHNYX-04 (Manifest: Phippsburg, CO to North Yard, CO) just east of Leyden. UP does still have a number of customers on the Craig Branch (aside from the coal mines), so manifests will still run periodically between North Yard and Phippsburg (and vice versa). The train is not regularly scheduled, however, so it always runs as an extra these days, with an "X" on the end of the symbol denoting that it is an extra. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107716 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 23, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Arvada, CO 1402 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Fall colors struck very early this year and many of the leaves were already off the trees up at Tolland. However, plenty of aspens were still looking mighty fine as a westbound BNSF Denver-Provo rolls west on the main on clear signals. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107715 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1318 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70ACe and a pair of ES44ACs lead an eastbound on the final few miles of track before terminating at North Yard. As infrequent as Union Pacific trains seem to be on the Moffat, it was great catching this guy in fantastic morning light. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107714 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1323 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Just a few ticks before 8am, UP's MRONY (Roper, UT to North Yard, CO) rolls east out of Leyden and approaches the grade crossing at Simms Street. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107713 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Simms Street Arvada, CO 1422 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The experts have said that fall colors would be coming earlier than normal this year and the trees on the right side of the frame suggest that the experts are correct! Yellow leaves are starting to appear as an eastbound UP manifest rolls by out of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107712 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 20, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1337 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This westbound is slowing as it had an approach at the last intermediate signal. It will get stopped at a red at the east switch of Rocky as maintenance has a work window that will last another 30 to 40 minutes. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107711 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 20, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1364 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF On this particular day, clouds were drifting in and out of the scene and a nice hole popped up in the clouds allowing the power on this westbound BNSF manifest to be nicely highlighted in the sun. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107710 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 20, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Barbara's Gulch (MP 15.9 to MP 17.2) Arvada, CO 1324 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF If you look closely, you may note that the BNSF logo on the lead unit is a bit smaller than on the third unit. That lead unit is a ET44C4, the latest (Tier 4 compliant) model from GE. There is slightly less room on the long hood for the logo to appear. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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