Photo ID: 108917 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 18, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 441 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Just west of the Coal Creek Canyon overpass, BNSF's Denver-Provo is charging up the roughly 1.75% grade toward the east portal of Tunnel 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108916 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 18, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 733 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF It is fairly common to find five units on BNSF's Denver-Provo manifests and today is no exception. Three units are on the point and a pair of units, both facing west, are bringing up the tail end. The train is not particularly long today at about 4,500 feet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108915 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 18, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS020 (East Eisele (Clay)) Arvada, CO 459 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF This westbound BNSF Denver-Provo is now running (roughly) geographically north as it passes by the signal at the east end of Eisele (former Clay), control point CP DS020. In the distance, you can see North Table Mountain which is on the north side of the town of Golden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108914 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 18, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 469 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Three units lead up the westbound Denver-Provo as the train passes by the hoppers that have served as a wind break on the inside of the curve for the past 50 years. All of the cars have been covered in graffiti from top to bottom. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108913 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, December 18, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 478 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver-Provo was called in Denver at 7:05am. Four hours later and the train is climb the through the S-Curve from the west switch of Rocky (out of frame to the right) up to the top of Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108859 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Fraser, CO 476 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A single Heritage 2 C44-9W brings up the end of an empty unit grain train across Eisenhower Drive near the east switch of Fraser. The unit grain train is a nice bit of variety for the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108858 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Fraser, CO 470 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF 43-year-old rail, rolled at Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) in 1979, is showing a little bit of its age as flakes and chips of rail have been torn away along the railhead as an eastbound covered hopper rolls over the stamping of the rail. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108857 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Fraser, CO 486 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF As we move toward harvest season, more and more covered hoppers are moving toward the plains of the United States in preparation for loading. An eastbound BNSF (empty) unit grain train pulls along the platform in Fraser. The scene is drenched as rain continues to fall from an afternoon thunderstorm. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108856 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 24, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Fraser, CO 485 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF You can really see the near-2% grade amplified in this shot as a BNSF grain train pulls on to the slightly less intense 1% grade at Fraser. The forecast today called for thunderstorms all afternoon in the Fraser Valley and the meteorologists were spot on today as the rain is coming down hard! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108849 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 772 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of units bring up the tail end of the Provo-Denver as the train makes its way down the main at Leyden. BNSF's yard has requested that, instead of running down to Prospect Jct on UP's main, the train will instead cross over at Utah Junction from UP's main to the BNSF main. Most likely the yard has asked to do this in order to hold the train at Rennicks until the yard is ready for it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108848 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 705 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Dynamic brakes whine as a trio of GEs work to control the speed of this eastbound Provo-Denver manifest as it passes by the neighborhood of Leyden Ranch, just west of the siding of Leyden. The train has a Clear (green over red) signal at the west end of Leyden as it has a straight shot down to Utah Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108846 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, November 11, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Blue Mountain Drive (MP 22.43) Arvada, CO 764 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF 7467 passes by a huge herd of Elk which is casually hanging out a few hundred feet from the tracks, just west of the west switch of Eisele (Clay). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108842 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 757 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF Elephant-style GEs, consisting of an ES44DC, an ET44C4, and a C44-9W lead a 93-car manifest west out of Denver. The three GEs up front are being helped by another two pushing on the tail end over an mile to the east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108841 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 762 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A BNSF manifest, headed for Provo, UT, is not even 15 miles west of the yard in Denver at the start of its trip. Although the sun is now setting early in the afternoon, the low southern light makes for some pretty great shots. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108840 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, November 7, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Kipling (MP 9.8) Arvada, CO 1139 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A pair of ES44C4s lead an empty eastbound grain train at Kipling Street, just about 10 miles west of Union Station. The Denver-Metro area is low enough in elevation that some trees are still holding on to at least some of their leaves! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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