Photo ID: 112434 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The second of two units on this westbound rail train is UP 3055. This is one of roughly 100 Tier-4 EMD units that UP has on their roster. The complexity and expense of the units has resulted in minimal sales in the United States. Class 1 railroads are instead choosing to rebuild older units on the roster to give them an extended life. It is cheaper than investing in the Tier-4 units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112433 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 96 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After meeting two eastbound trains at Arvada, it was finally this rail trains turn to head west. The train only has a handful of strips of welded rail, which are to be dropped off in various locations between Plain and Cliff. As the summer draws closer, maintenance projects are beginning to pick up! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112430 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 93 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific May is without a doubt my favorite month in the Denver-Metro area. The foliage has greened up for Spring, and the temperatures generally are not too unbearably hot just yet! Regarding the green scenery, a case-in-point is here at East Leyden as UP's MGJNY heads east for the final ten or so miles toward North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112429 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden (7,020ft) Arvada, CO 117 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After about a month with Leyden be open and available for meets, UP once again brought a string of about 40 gondolas out for longer term storage. The West Local brought the car out on May 7, 2025. After a derailment at Rocky on Friday, which still has the main out-of-service, it sure would be nice if the siding at Leyden was open for meets! Alas, such is not the case. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112428 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 129 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Quite a bit going on in this shot. In additional to the manifest rolling east through the siding at Rocky, we see a regulator on the main to the right. You might also notice that the spur switch to the Rocky Flats Industrial Lead is also open. The main track here at Rocky is currently out-of-service. UP is checking for track damage on the main after a derailment last Friday. They are also storing some MOW equipment on the main and on the spur in the meantime. The tank car that derailed can be spotted to the left on the house track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112427 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF Here is the problem car! This is the tank car that derailed on the BNSF Provo-Denver last Friday morning. The truck on the right side popped off the rail and was dragged along for several hundred feet before the train came to a stop. Fortunately, no other cars derailed, and no cars fell over! A new wheel set has been placed under the car, but it still remains in the house track at Rocky until BNSF can come and take it back to Denver. The flat car to the left was not involved in the derailment. It was set up from a different train several days earlier. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112426 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 108 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5772 leads UP's Grand Junction to North Yard manifest around the north edge of Big Ten Curve. Note the solar-powered weather station to the right. It measures, among other things, the current wind speed and reports it back to UP headquarters in Omaha. If the wind speeds are high enough, a 10 MPH slow order is issued around Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112425 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 107 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5772, sporting UP's newest paint scheme, leads the only UP manifest that still runs on the Moffat out the east end of Eisele (Clay), the MGJNY. The train is slowing to 10 MPH on account of a slow order ahead through a minor derailment repair site. The derailment happened the previous Friday. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112424 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's thrice-weekly Grand Junction to Denver manifest rolls east on the main at Eisele (Clay). Three units are on the point, with a single DPU bringing up the rear. The train is comprised of the two most common cars found on the MGJNY, some loaded coal hoppers, and some covered hoppers. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112423 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 100 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A dump truck dumps out a load of ballast that will be used in repairs of the track where a derail occurred last Friday morning. An eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver had a truck derail on a tank car. No cars fell over, but there was some track damage. You can clearly see the fresh ballast that has already been laid. A track foreman just checked the gauging here, and is informing DS-380 that a track tamper needs to run through here before two eastbounds. Also note the flood light which has been used at night as crews have been working around the clock to get operations back to normal. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112421 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 12, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Last Friday, there was a derailment nearby. A car with a derailed truck ran east on the main here. If you look closely, it looks like you might be able to see a flange mark in the middle of the track, offset to the west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112416 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Green River to Sphinx (MP 555.8 to MP 560.9) Grand County, UT 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific The final shot on this particular journey to the Utah desert for me came just west of the west switch of Green River. DS-378 informed this eastbound coal empty that they would be holding at Green River for "at least an hour, and possibly longer". UP has a maintenance window ahead at Solitude. The empty will take the siding at Green River to wait not only for the maintenance window to clear up, but for BNSF's Denver to Provo as well. The train is coming to a stop west of the west switch for a few minutes to allow the conductor to run over to a gas station in Green River and pick up a few snacks for himself and the engineer. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112407 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG548 (West Solitude) Grand County, UT 70 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A look west from the west switch of Solitude. UP has what is known as a Form B active through here. For a Form B, a track foreman is in charge and puts up red flags around the work zone. Trains are not allowed to enter the work zone without explicit permission from the track foreman. As you can see, it appears that UP is replacing a lot of ties through here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112406 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG548 (West Solitude) Grand County, UT 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific When a UP coal load derailed at the west switch of Solitude, the derailment damaged the switch itself. When UP repaired the tracks to get the mainline reopened, they did not bother to actually replace the switch. As you can see, the switch points are entirely missing. Not sure what this will mean for the siding of Solitude. UP has used it for long term storage of cars. Indeed, there are cars being stored there even when this picture was taken. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112405 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 4, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG548 (West Solitude) Grand County, UT 74 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Green River (UP) Union Pacific A team of UP maintenance of way employees are gathered at the west switch of Solitude, working to continue some cleanup efforts after a loaded coal train derailed here at the west switch about 10 days earlier. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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