Photo ID: 112747 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Titan Road Douglas County, CO 37 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) BNSF Two GE units, the second of which still sports the original Heritage paint scheme as this Denver to Amarillo manifest approaches Titan Road south of Littleton. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112746 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 35 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This southbound coal load as slowed to a stop on Main 2, still in Yard limits and not yet in CTC limits. The train has briefly stopped to wait for the California Zephyr to clear the diamond at 23rd Street ahead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112745 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 31st Street Yard Denver, CO 32 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A fresh, outbound crew in on this southbound coal load that had been sitting on Coal 2. The train is departing via the Coal Lead and will then head south on the Joint Line on Main 2 from 23rd Street to South Denver, and which point it will cross over to Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112741 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 46 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Multiple units hang out on the ready tracks at BNSF's engine house. The refueling tracks are currently all empty, but a recently arrived McCook-Denver manifest will likely soon bring in some power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112740 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 36 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A BNSF GP39-2 sits among several other units in Denver. Love seeing a classic blue and yellow painted unit (a so-called "Yellow Bonnet"), particularly when the paint has held up as well as this one has. Railfans that remember railroading in the 1980s might remember a train Santa Fe ran called the "DVLJ". It was an intermodal train that ran out of Big Lift (south of Denver on the Joint Line) to La Junta. GP39-2s were very common on that train...perhaps this geep even led that intermodal train 40 years ago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112739 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 35 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF 7393 is sitting on a stub track near the engine house. It looks like the unit may have spent some time in Houston or SoCal, as those are locations where units are often tagged. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112733 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 70 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF A final shot of a Norfolk Southern AC44C6M rolls east, away from the camera, on the end of an eastbound BNSF coal empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112732 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 55 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF A Norfolk Southern AC44C6M is the sole DPU on this eastbound BNSF coal empty. The unit is being power-shared with BNSF. This is a common practice, particularly for Class 1 railroads, to loan units to other railroads for any number of reasons. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112731 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A Valmy coal empty, with a BNSF SD70ACe and an MRL SD70ACe, passes by an advanced approach (flashing yellow) signal at East Leyden. From Denver, the train will continue on BNSF rails to the Powder River Basin where it will be loaded once again. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112725 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 63 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF There are days...or perhaps certain times on any given day...in which you might think the Moffat is actually owned by BNSF rather than Union Pacific. An empty oil train heads west on the main track at Eisele (Clay) in the background, while an eastbound coal empty sits in the siding at Rocky. The eastbound is waiting on the Zephyr and the Rocky Mountaineer before it will be its turn to continue east. The crew only has until 11:15am to work before their hours are up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112724 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF NS 4130 is actually no stranger to the Moffat. Lately, NS 4130 has been sticking around in Denver and BNSF has been putting it to good use on several trains. Here, the unit is on the point of a westbound oil train, coming around Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112723 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF NS 4130 leads an empty oil train around Big Ten Curve. It is very interesting how oil has rapidly replaced coal as the most common type of train that runs on the Moffat now. Granted, they do not run with the frequency the coal trains once did, but their counts do seem to be increasing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112722 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 95 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF Another BNSF oil empty that originated on Norfolk Southern east of the Mississippi. This is why so many NS units are showing up on the Moffat lately. The four additional BNSF units were added to the train in Denver. Once loaded, the train will likely return east over the Moffat in a 3x3 configuration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112721 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 54 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF I am not going to lie, I really enjoy seeing a unit sporting Norfolk Southern paint alone on the Moffat. The predominantly black scheme is closer to Rio Grande than any other Class 1 railroad here in 2025. The unit is a DPU on an eastbound coal empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112720 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 54 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Norfolk Southern, BNSF NS 4040, an AC44C6M, sits as the sole DPU on the tail end of this eastbound coal empty in the siding at Rocky. The unit was rebuilt from an AC4400CW by Norfolk Southern. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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