Photo ID: 110437 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (5,750 ft) Gilpin County, CO 257 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The ditch lights on the eastbound California Zephyr are currently oscillating back and forth as the horn blows for the approaching grade crossing with Tolland Road. The train emerged from the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel just moments earlier, and is continuing east toward Denver on a clear (green) signal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110436 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (5,750 ft) Gilpin County, CO 261 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak In the midst of the valley leading up to the Moffat Tunnel and the Continental Divide, we find the eastbound Zephyr on the main at East Portal on its way east toward its next station stop at Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110435 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 21, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS050 (West East Portal) Gilpin County, CO 300 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running about 1 hours and 45 minutes late, the eastbound Zephyr has just emerged from the Moffat Tunnel and the 6.2 miles of darkness underneath the Continental Divide. There is still quite a bit of snow on the ground even in late April. A lot of it being the result of a snow storm that came through the night before. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110425 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Jefferson County, CO 319 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 138 and AMTK 82 lead the westbound Zephyr around the curve on the main near the west end of Crescent. The Phase 7 paint on the units really pop against the white wintery scene in the third week of April. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110424 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Jefferson County, CO 296 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak These mornings are some of my favorite around the front range of the Rockies. Not enough snow to make traveling difficult, but enough to give a fantastic coating on the ground and in the trees. The Zephyr rolls west on the main at Crescent, horn blowing for the approaching grade crossing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110423 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Jefferson County, CO 296 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The clouds are hanging low near the tracks as the Zephyr heads west on the main track at Crescent amidst a winter wonderland in April. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110422 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain to Crescent (MP 25.3 to MP 30.6) Jefferson County, CO 372 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Just west of Tunnel 18, the morning Zephyr wraps through a black and white winter wonderland. In reality, I took a bit of artistic license here and removed all the color from the photos, save for the two Phase 7 P42DCs on the point of the westbound train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110421 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 355 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On this particular morning, Big Ten Curve is pretty close to the boundary between snow on the ground and the ground just being wet. The snow was not able to push much to the east of Rocky overnight. Snow in April in the Denver area is certainly not uncommon, but this late in the season, the accumulations tend to be very low. Makes for a great look as the Zephyr rounds the wind break at Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110420 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 305 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's rather nice that Amtrak has been running these two freshly painted P42DCs on the Zephyr for the past week or so. The irony being that, as great as it is to catch these units now, looking back ten years from now, when the Phase 7 scheme is completely ubiquitous, the Phase 5 scheme will be missed. The Zephyr is climbing the north side of Big Ten Curve in some powdered snow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110419 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 304 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is making the climb up and around Big Ten Curve with a pair of very colorful units on the point. In just a minute, the train will be knocking down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Eisele (Clay) in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110418 Date Shot Photo By Friday, April 19, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 330 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak As of this picture, Amtrak had repainted three P42DCs in the new Phase 7 paint scheme. Two of them are leading the westbound Zephyr on a cold, somewhat snowy spring morning. The train is rolling a few minutes late, just west of Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110417 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, April 18, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 342 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr arrived in Denver 9 minutes late, but ended up departing 1 hour and 45 minutes late. The reason being that AMTK 139 (the second P42DC) developed a mechanical issue. AMTK 142 is a "protection unit" that has been kept in Denver. Essentially, it's a spare unit for just such an occurrence. Three units is a little unusual to see on the Zephyr. Unfortunately, it mean that AMTK 161 (the Phase 1 Heritage unit) was no longer leading. Here, the westbound highballs through Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110414 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 304 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At the west switch of Rocky, the eastbound Zephyr is reaching the end of a 15 MPH slow order that has been in effect (off and on) since Cliff. The train, moving in and out of partly cloudy shadows, is one has become the standard consist these days, including seven Superliners. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110413 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 316 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The terrain around Big Ten is really starting to green up here at the halfway point through April as we get a bit deeper in to Spring. The evening eastbound Zephyr descends down the grade from Big Ten Loop toward a clear (green) signal at the west end of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110412 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 353 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 54 and AMTK 147 lead the eastbound Zephyr along the south edge of Big Ten Loop. The open hoppers that serve as a wind break are just out of the frame to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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