Photo ID: 111804 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 307 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific One of my personal favorite perspective from Big Ten Curve. Three units, lead UP's MNYGJ, the thrice-weekly manifest on the climb around Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111803 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 302 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The engineer is throttling up UP 7052, resulting a bit of extra exhaust being kick up as the MNYGJ starts to bit into the roughly 2% grade on the climb to Big Ten Curve. This is the first daylight run of the MNYGJ on the east slope of the Moffat that I have seen in just over a year. The train almost always departs North Yard in the darkest hours of the night. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111802 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS019 (West Rocky) Arvada, CO 278 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5559 is designated as a C44AC-CTE. It is essentially an AC4400CW that has some computer upgrades that UP got from Wabtec when ordering these units. Many of these units are being rebuilt by UP into C44ACMs, but UP 5559 has not yet had its turn at the shop. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111801 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 315 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 4363 is a Phase 1 SD70M. It was part of the largest single locomotive order at the time, one of 1,000 SD70Ms UP ordered from EMD. Many of those SD70Ms are now in long term storage, but many still roam the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111800 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 346 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Roster shot of UP 7052. Originally built as a C44/60AC, and designed to be upgraded to 6000 HP, it has now been rebuilt by UP and is designated as a C44ACM. After a brief push for 6000 HP in the 1990s, 4400 HP has pretty well become the standard horsepower for the last 25 years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111799 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 301 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific From slightly below track level, we look up at UP's MNYGJ, Manifest from North Yard to Grand Junction. It just about to start continuing the journey west after the westbound Zephyr overtook it here in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111798 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 316 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It would seem that BNSF has successfully captured a majority of the manifest traffic that runs over the Moffat. UP's MNYGJ and MGJNY are, more often than not, quite short these days. Such is the case this morning as the MNYGJ sits in the siding at Rocky with only 30 cars in tow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111797 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 333 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The only westbound manifest UP runs on the Moffat is the MNYGJ. Typically, it departs North Yard in the darkest hours of the night. However, for whatever reason, it apparently departed North Yard late today and took the siding at Rocky so that the Zephyr could overtake it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111753 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 334 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 9715 is a C44-9W that has been in long term storage in Grand Junction. It is likely going to be rebuilt as a C44ACM and put back into active service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111752 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 356 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 9738 is a C44-9W that has been in long term storage in Grand Junction. It is likely going to be rebuilt as a C44ACM and put back into active service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111751 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 342 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 9689 is a C44-9W that has been in long term storage in Grand Junction. It is likely going to be rebuilt as a C44ACM and put back into active service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111750 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 352 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 9738 is a C44-9W that has been in long term storage in Grand Junction. It is likely going to be rebuilt as a C44ACM and put back into active service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111749 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 344 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 9738 is a C44-9W that has been in long term storage in Grand Junction. It is likely going to be rebuilt as a C44ACM and put back into active service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111748 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 351 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific For the past decade, The US EPA has required that diesel locomotives built meet the (very strict) Tier-4 emissions standards. As a result, Class 1 railroads have largely started rebuilding older locomotives as rebuilds are not subject to the same standards. It is cheaper than buying Tier-4 compliant locomotives, which, even after their initial sticker price, are more expensive (and more complicated) to maintain. However, UP has purchased 107 Tier-4 compliant SD70ACe-T4s. UP 3054, on the point of the MGJNY, is one such unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111747 Date Shot Photo By Friday, January 17, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Chemical (MP 14.5) Arvada, CO 367 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's MGJNY met the Winter Park Express at Rocky and is now heading the rest of the way into Denver. The train is less than 3,000 feet long this morning. Other than the coal at the front, most of the rest of the train are cars from the Potash Local that runs out to Moab from Grand Junction. If you look off in the distance and slightly up, you can see the head end of an eastbound BNSF in the siding at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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