Photo ID: 109739 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 384 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Any modelers out there that want a unique, real world paint scheme to try their hand at? How about BNSF 4729? This unique unit originally wore the Heritage 2 (orange and yellow) paint scheme until sometime in 2019. The entire long hood was removed when it was in the shop. The removal of the long hood is quite common as it exposes the entire prime mover. Sometimes, the long hood will be replaced with one from another unit. Perhaps the hood itself needed additional repairs. When the long hood from a unit with the same paint scheme is used, it likely is not noticed. However, for whatever reason, the long hood from a Warbonnet was used on this particular unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109738 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 439 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 5857 and BNSF 4729 bring up the tail end of BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest. BNSF 4729 is referred to by many as a "Frankenbonnet" due to its extremely unique paint scheme. Sometime in 2019, the long hood was replaced with the long hood from a Warbonnet for reasons unknown. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109737 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 372 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The back end of BNSF's Provo-Denver wraps through Little Ten Loop, sitting on the siding. Note the rather unique paint scheme of the first DPU on the tail end of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109736 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 374 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF, CSX A somewhat interesting trio of GEs (a BNSF ET44C4, a CSX AC4400CW, and a BNSF ES44AC) lead BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest. The train is currently stopped in the siding at Rocky. The train has no crew at the moment. A crew will show up to take the train in to Denver, but it could be anywhere from 4 to 24 hours before the crew actually appears. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109735 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 350 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSX, BNSF A visitor from the east is second-out on the eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver sitting in the siding at Rocky. The CSX AC4400CW sports the CSX Blue Cab paint scheme. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109734 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 397 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF 20-25% of the time, BNSF's Provo-Denver will tie down in the siding at Rocky rather than making it all the way to Denver. There are a number of reasons this might happen. The top two generally are either that the yard in Denver is not yet prepared to receive the train, and/or the crew on the train does not have enough time left on the clock to make it in to the yard before "dying" (hitting their hours of service). Here, one such Provo-Denver sits idle in the siding at Rocky with no crew, the derail at the east end of the siding set. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109722 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 2, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 332 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF One of the 19 "25th Anniversary" units BNSF created is the 4th unit on a westbound coal empty sitting in the siding at Rocky. These units are the closest (to date) that BNSF has come to having a heritage unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109721 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 2, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 330 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Canadian Pacific, BNSF A guest from the north is spending some time with BNSF. Actually, with the recent merger with KCS, CP is no longer a northern railroad. CPKC now covers Canada, the central United States, and Mexico! This paint scheme will be fading in to history in the coming years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109720 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 2, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 389 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF 15 years ago, coal trains on the Moffat were ubiquitous and as common as leaves on a tree. However, today, they have become intermittent at best. Even more unusual is an empty westbound BNSF coal train. However, here one sits in the siding in the late morning on a somewhat windy Thursday. The train will be sitting for a few hours to wait for a maintenance window to close ahead in the Tunnel District. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109719 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 2, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 306 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A quartet of orange BNSF units are cut in half by a red Canadian Pacific putting in some power sharing miles on BNSF. The train is stopped on the siding at Rocky, waiting for a maintenance window ahead to clear up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109718 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 2, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Ten Curve (MP 18.7 to MP 18.9) Arvada, CO 332 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Five units lead a westbound BNSF coal empty, wrapped through the curves at Little Ten Curve near West Rocky. The train is currently stopped on the siding as there is maintenance ahead in the Tunnel District. The train will have to sit here for a few hours, waiting for the maintenance window to be over. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109666 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS025 (West Plain) Jefferson County, CO 349 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A New Image SD70MAC makes a somewhat rare appears on the Moffat, together with the far-more-common SD70ACe that bring up the tail end of this eastbound Provo-Denver at the west switch of Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109665 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 2 (MP 25.4, 516 ft) Jefferson County, CO 369 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 5781 pops out of Tunnel 2 while the rest of the train is still within Tunnel 2...and Tunnel 3...and Tunnel 4! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109664 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, October 19, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 4 (MP 26.0, 174 ft) Jefferson County, CO 382 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver emerges from the east portal of Tunnel 4. The train is setup in a typical (for BNSF) 3x2 configuration. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109651 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 335 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF An eastbound BNSF manifest sits in the siding, tied down at Rocky. It arrived a few hours earlier and is currently waiting for a relief crew to take it the rest of the way in to Denver. The view is out the pilot's window of a Cessna 172R. 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