Photo ID: 106605 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 1422 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX CSX 3278 is leading a westbound coal empty toward a clear signal at the west end of Rocky. The train will run around a freshly maintained Big Ten Curve (fresh rails, ties, and ballast) before continuing west through Eisele and into the siding at Plain. There, the Zephyr will run around the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106604 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 1387 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, CSX It is not very often that you see a consist like this on the Moffat! This coal empty is headed for the West Elk Mine on the North Fork Branch. The lead unit, which is an ET44AC, has CSX's latest paint scheme applied. The train is coming around Little Ten Curve at Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106603 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 1344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, CSX Despite the fact that the Moffat is back open after an eight day closure last week, there is still a lot of maintenance going on! The westbound Zephyr is being held in Denver until 12:30pm. Departing ahead of the Zephyr was this coal empty with an all-CSX consist. Note the incredible amount of equipment that UP is working on putting away in the house track, off the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106602 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1195 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This picture is a little bit like the book game "Where's Waldo"! Can you spot the train is the scene? A westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest is holding on the main at Leyden. You can see his headlight toward the lower-left quadrant of the image. The train is waiting for the Zephyr to run around it through the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106601 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1374 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound unit covered hopper train is stopped at the grade crossing at Plain. The conductor has the walk the train, and it is going to be quite a task as the train is 123 cars long! In the last 36 hours, a cold front has moved into the Denver area, giving everyone the first real taste of fall. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106600 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1247 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The first eastbound to run over the Moffat in eight days! The Moffat had been entirely closed for extensive maintenance and just opened overnight to allow trains to start rolling again. A former Espee AC4400CW (SP 202) leads the train for the journey east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106552 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1360 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF With clear signals set up for the rest of the run in to Denver, this eastbound BNSF officer's special moves quickly along CO-72 about 3/4 of a mile west of Leyden. Shorter days are making for less and less sun on the north side of shots like this. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106551 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 1334 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just a minute or so earlier, this eastbound BNSF special was on the upper track in this shot, moving from right to left. After going around Big Ten Curve, it is now approaching a clear signal at Rocky and moving left to right. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106550 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 1284 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF officer's special wraps around the hoppers on Big Ten Curve. The sun was playing a little hide and seek with the clouds, but fortunately came out for the shot on the curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106549 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, September 14, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1379 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF officer's special (train symbol OSTODEN2-11) glides down the main at Plain in semi-cloudy morning light. This would be the only train to sneak through this morning as UP has dedicated work windows for maintenance crews between sunrise and around 12:30pm. During these work windows, the westbound Zephyr is holding at Union Station in Denver until 12:30pm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106578 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1263 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After a major dropoff in coal loadings in western Colorado, there has been a bit of a rebound in the summer of 2017. While coal traffic is nothing like it was ten years earlier, coal trains are showing up several a week. During the winter prior, coal traffic was down to as few as one train every 1-2 weeks! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106577 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1222 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load rolls slowly down the main at Leyden, meeting a military train that is already on the siding. The coal train will stop not too far ahead to check out the rail. There have been reports of trespassers in the area and it turns out they placed rocks and railroad spikes on the rail head! Fortunately, the debris was spotted and removed. I actually spoke briefly to the conductor and it was believed the train could have easily derailed had the debris not been removed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106576 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It has been more than a decade since UP last ran a military train on the Moffat. They became a little jaded after the last one required four crews to ultimately go nowhere! The story goes that there were some open-top auto racks with Humvees in them. The car department was inspecting the cars to ensure they'd fit through the tunnels while the train was in North Yard. That was the first crew. The second crew was called and the train headed west, but tripped a high-wide detector in Arvada. So the train stopped at Rocky and waiting for the car department, who came out and again measured the cars. A third crew was called to take the train west...but a few of the Humvees were in fact too tall and just scraped the top of Tunnel 10. The train was tied down at Crescent and waited for a fourth crew. The car department let the air out of the tires of the Humvees and the train was able to return to Denver and ultimately go through Wyoming. Needless to say, the military train in this shot has no auto racks on it! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106575 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1330 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The Moffat has picked up a little variety lately, with a smattering of unusual trains showing up. Case-in-point is this military train, headed for Yermo, CA. The train is taking the siding at Leyden to meet an eastbound coal load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106574 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 16, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An SD70M leads a westbound train toward the east switch of Leyden. I've always loved this telephoto shot, which you can get from the shoulder of 82nd Avenue. My dad took several pictures from this spot of SD40T-2s leading Rio Grande trains west back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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