Photo ID: 113300 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A pair of P42s, elephant style, lead the Zephyr west on the siding at Plain. You can see the train is meeting an eastbound BNSF oil train. the oil train just got a green signal and is departing eastbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113299 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is on the main at Plain, splitting a BNSF oil train on the main and a lot of maintenance equipment in the house track at Plain. The equipment is part of a significant maintenance project that UP is currently in the midst of undertaking. You can even see a lot of fresh ballast on the tracks here at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113298 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A lot of fresh ballast has been laid here at Plain as the westbound Zephyr enters the siding to meet an eastbound BNSF oil train. Note that the engineer on the Zephyr has dimmed the headlight for the meet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113297 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 23 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr rolls through the siding at Eisele (Clay). An eastbound BNSF oil train was originally going to be waiting for the Zephyr on the main. However, the oil train ended up holding the main at Plain to wait on the Zephyr there. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113296 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain to Crescent (MP 25.3 to MP 30.6) Arvada, CO 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF DS-378 originally planned to take this BNSF oil train down to the main at Eisele (Clay) to meet the westbound Zephyr. However, it was a bit slow coming down the hill, so it is going to stop on the main here at Plain and wait on the Zephyr, which is currently at Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113295 Date Shot Photo By Monday, November 10, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rainbow Cut Jefferson County, CO 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF oil train rolls through Rainbow Cut on the main at Plain. It is actually slowing and it will come to a stop as soon as the end of the train clears the west switch. It'll wait here for the westbound Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113294 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 28 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A typical pair of Amtrak P42DCs leads the morning Zephyr across the grade crossing at 66th Avenue in Arvada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113293 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 37 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF You might recall that for decades, Amtrak did haul mail on long distance trains. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Amtrak tried to help supplement revenue by hauling bulk mail and packages as well. Such things were hauled in box cars painted in Amtrak's Phase 4 scheme. Amtrak stopped the service in October 2004 as it was not actually generating a profit, and was delaying passenger trains due to freight moves at certain stations. The rolling stock was sold, and one such former Amtrak boxcar happened to be on this Provo-Denver today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113292 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 30 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The eastbound Provo-Denver passes through the high/wide detector at MP 8.4. The detector ensure that nothing is sticking out from the train that might strike a tunnel or tunnel wall. No defects this morning as the train continues toward Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113291 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 29 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It's been awhile since I've seen a DC-unit (C44-9W specifically) leading one of BNSF's manifests on the Moffat. However, a Heritage 2 C44-9W just happens to be on the point of this eastbound Provo-Denver this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113290 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 33 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Three units lead BNSF's Provo-Denver, per the usual, as it wraps through the S-Curve in the middle of Arvada, just east of 66th Avenue. Despite it being early November and there being a lot of windy days this week, a lot of trees still have their leaves here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113289 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 7, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Arvada to Leyden (MP 7.5 to MP 11.9) Arvada, CO 34 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Most of the fall colors have faded to fairly dull colors and leafless trees in Arvada as BNSF's Provo-Denver rolls eastbound out of Leyden. A mild fall with no appreciable snow has resulted in a still-bare Long's Peak off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113288 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 6, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 33 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF DS-378 routed the Provo-Denver into the siding at Rocky to meet the westbound Zephyr. As it turns out, 31st Street in Denver wasn't quite ready to take the train yet either, so it would end up having to hold here at Rocky for about an hour. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113287 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 6, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Provo-Denver is really well-blocked today. Tank cars, followed by covered hoppers, follows by tank cars...and a box car on the end. Instead of the power being configured in the standard 3x2, this morning is setup in a 4x1 configuration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113286 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 6, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 38 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak In the 1990s, Amtrak developed a variation on its Phase 3 paint scheme that it applied to the its fleet of GE B32-8BWH. The design and colors led railfans to adopt the nickname "Pepsi Can" for the scheme. Amtrak has applied a heritage version of the scheme on P42DC #160, leading the train toward Tunnel 1 this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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