Photo ID: 106919 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 30, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS036 (East Cliff) Pinecliff, CO 1168 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ferromex, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, BNSF Looking down from high above the east end of Cliff, we find a Ferromex ES44AC, a KCS SD70ACe, a pair of BNSFs and a pair of Norfolk Southern units all leading the Provo-Lincoln. The train is about to cross over South Boulder Creek and enter 29, the west end of the Tunnel District. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106918 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, December 30, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS036 (East Cliff) Pinecliff, CO 1155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ferromex, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, BNSF With a snow-covered Continental Divide as a backdrop, an eastbound Provo-Lincoln manifest, with six units on the point, depart the east end of Cliff, ready to enter the Tunnel District. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106911 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, December 28, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Tolland Gilpin County, CO 1175 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern A Kansas City Southern SD70ACe was on the Denver-Provo for the trip west over the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106737 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1077 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, BNSF The ever-expanding Denver skyline is visible to the right as a loaded BNSF oil train slowly rolls east toward the west switch at Leyden. The train will briefly stop at the west switch to wait for maintenance to clear. And by briefly, we are talking less than 30 seconds! I had hoped to move to the Simms Street grade crossing for another shot, but the 30 second stop didn't give me enough time to get there. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106736 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1244 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern I must admit to being a big fan of Kansas City Southern's "Retro Belle" paint scheme. KCS has been slowly repainting units from their gray scheme to this colorful alternative over the past decade or so. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106735 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1138 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern KCS has traditionally been an EMD railroad, but after EMD's quality decreased in the 80s and 90s, KCS (like all railroads) made some GE purchases. Today, they have 240 GE units on the roster, accounting for roughly 1/3 of all their power. That does not include Kansas City Southern de Mexico, which has 320 GE units, and accounts for about 60% of the KCSM roster. For both KCS and KCSM, all 560 units are split between two models: AC4400CWs and ES44ACs. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106489 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1412 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, BNSF I'm always happy to grab a shot of a Kansas City Southern unit in Retro-Belle paint! This SD70MAC looks pretty sharp in the red/yellow/black paint job. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105827 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 1301 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific In general, unit oil trains are only 3/5 to perhaps 2/3 the length of an average coal train. A point demonstrated in this shot as you would not be able to get both ends of a coal train in this frame. The head end of unit empty oil train is about to head into Tunnel 1 as the covered hopper buffer car on the rear rolls clear of the hot box detector at MP 22.6. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105826 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1314 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific After a couple weeks of frigid temperatures and quite a bit of snow, things thawed out a bit in mid-February! Most of the snow is gone and the temperature is close to 60°F as this westbound oil train, led by a pair of Kansas City Southern SD70ACes approach the Blue Mountain grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105825 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1325 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific A pair of good looking Retro-Belle KCS SD70ACes lead up a westbound oil train as it makes its way through the S-Curves west of Eisele (formerly Clay) on the approach to the Blue Mountain Road crossing. As the sole power on the train, these guys sounded mighty fine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105823 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1330 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific Up close and in your face! I decided to post multiple shots of the KCS "Belles" leading a westbound oil train on Valentine's Day Eve. We don't get these colorful creatures in Colorado all too often, so I wanted to advantage while I could. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105822 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1440 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific Good to see an empty oil train on the Moffat after multiple weeks without any. Even better to see one with such amazing power on the point! There was concern that UP might decide to throw a unit (most likely UP) on the point of the train in Denver. However, that obviously turned out not to be the case. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105821 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, February 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1322 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific This was a nice surprise for a Saturday afternoon! Not only did a westbound (empty) oil train run on the Moffat, but it was led by a pair of Kansas City Southern "Retro Belles"! Both SD70ACes to boot. Haven't seen an oil train in weeks (if not months). With oil prices so low right now, the demand for oil from fracking just hasn't been that high. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105118 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 16, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1812 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific It isn't all that often that a Kansas City Southern unit shows up on the Moffat. It is even less often that they are the sole power on a train! However, that was the case on this Monday morning as a gray KCSM (Kansas City Southern de Mexico) AC4400CW and a Retro-Belle SD70MAC lead an empty oil train out the west end of Leyden on a clear signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105036 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 1, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS902 (UP Junction) Denver, CO 1802 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Belt Industrial Lead (UP) Kansas City Southern I always enjoy running across a Kansas City Southern unit. I think it may be due to the fact that KCS has managed to endure through all of the mega-mergers of the last 20 years. While railroads like SP, CNW, and Conrail have fallen, KCS has persisted. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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