Photo ID: 106494 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1512 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Here is something you don't see everyday! A Lounge car on the end of the Zephyr. The consist of the Zephyr isn't scrabbled per se...there are actually two Lounge cars on the Zephyr on this morning. The entire train was booked by someone on this day and Amtrak added a second Lounge car for the party. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106493 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 1718 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak I love getting shots of train in blizzard conditions! You'd think there'd be more opportunities for such shots in the Denver area...and some winters you'd be correct. This has not been one of those winters though. It has been very warm and dry. This is the first really snowy morning of February as the westbound Zephyr approaches the crossing at Blue Mountain Road. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106492 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1513 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak An early California Zephyr kicks up a lot of snow along the main at Leyden as it heads west. The entire train has been booked by a single person or entity, so the train can actually run ahead of schedule without any problem. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106491 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 24, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 1690 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Finally! A wintery February morning. The first one Colorado has had the entire month this year. The westbound Zephyr passes by the siding at Leyden running roughly 35 minutes early. How can the Zephyr depart a station early? Because someone (a company, perhaps?) booked the entire train. With nobody getting on or off, the train made a quick stop in Denver for a crew change. It skipped the stops at Fraser and Granby entirely. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106490 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1605 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Not a bad consist at all on this BNSF Provo-Denver manifest. Two C44-9Ws, an ES40DC, two ES44C4s, and an SD70MAC. At least EMD got a little bit of the action. The train is slowing to a stop in the siding at Leyden. Here, it will have to wait for a couple hours as there is currently "no room at the inn" in Denver. 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 1671 (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: 106488 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1647 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, BNSF When the Evolution Series engines were first released by GE, CSX and Norfolk Southern both ordered units that were only 4,000 horsepower instead of the typical 4,400 horsepower. One such example is this ES40DC. The railroads believed they could save on fuel and that the extra 400 horses were not needed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106487 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1756 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF In addition to four orange BNSF units, the Provo-Denver sports two visitors on this chilly February afternoon. A CSX ES40DC and a KCS SD70MAC join in the fun. Note the lead unit is a C44-9W, repainted in the New Image scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106486 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1484 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF About 90 minutes before coming out to shoot the Provo-Denver, I shot a (very late) Zephyr at Leyden. At that time, visibility was fine and there was just some very light snow. Then, Mother Nature moved in quickly and brought a blizzard with her. Roads went from barely being wet to being sheets of ice! Granted, that is a moot point for this manifest as it slows in the siding at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106485 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1644 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver makes its way through poor visibility and snow in the siding at Leyden. DS-86 would have to hold the train at Leyden due to a lack of open routes and tracks in Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106484 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 1650 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running nearly 20 hours late, the eastbound Zephyr makes a very rare mid-afternoon run past milepost 13 down the main at Leyden. Mother Nature is to blame for the extreme tardiness. Snow over Donner Pass and flooding in Nevada have caused UP's tracks to be closed a lot with piled up snow or washouts. The Zephyr terminated at Salt Lake (and turned around there for a return trip east) for 10 days or so recently. Seems like perhaps they should still be doing that! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106483 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 1810 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Taking advantage of the overcast skies, I shot the eastbound Zephyr from the north side of the tracks at West Leyden. Prior to this winter storm, it had been 39 days since the Denver-Metro area got more than a "trace" of snow. We've seen temperatures in the low-to-mid 70s (°F) in February! A little snow and a high of 36°F is a welcome change. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106482 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 1651 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr at 2pm...5 hours early? Alas, no...the Zephyr is running just over 20 hours late as it approaches the west switch of Leyden. The delay was entirely out of Amtrak's hands. Weather in California and Nevada has been making it difficult in the extreme for UP to keep trains moving. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106481 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Ever wonder how rail is transported from the mill to its destination? This is it! A train allows rail to be stacked 10 wide and 5 high, for a total of 50 strips of rail. With each strip roughly 1/4 mile long, that means the train has 12 1/2 miles of rail. Of course, there are two rails to make up the tracks, so that is 6 1/4 miles of track on this train. That is enough to replace all the rail in the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106480 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 1454 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I'm always a sucker for a shot of any SD70M! UP purchased 1000 of them in a single order in 2000 and added on to that order with a few hundred more. UP 4073 is one of the older SD70Ms on the roster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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