Photo ID: 112744 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed 23rd Street Denver, CO 312 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Colorado Springs (UP)/Pikes Peak (BNSF) Amtrak AMTK 151 and AMTK 169 cross over the two main tracks at the north end of the BNSF Pikes Peak Subdivision. Coal trains moving back and forth between the Powder River Basin and Texas (largely) pass over the two mains here. RTD's B-Line and G-Line commuter rails cross over the diamond at this location, too. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112743 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed BNSF Engine House Denver, CO 295 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Amtrak The morning Zephyr passes underneath Park Avenue West as it departs Union Station. The train is currently on the Buck Lead, on the approach to 23rd Street, the control point that crosses the Buck Lead with the far north end of the Joint Line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112742 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 13, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Union Station Denver, CO 241 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Denver Union Terminal (RTD) Amtrak The morning Zephyr has just pulled out of Track 4 and Denver Union Station. It departed precisely on time at 8:46am. If you look closely at Track 5, you'll see there is a P42DC sitting there. I'm not sure why it is there. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112738 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 225 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The morning Zephyr climbs the north edge of Big Ten Curve, running about two hours late. UP's service road that runs parallel to the track is in very good condition right now, after UP brought quite a bit of heavy equipment up here a little over a month ago for a re-enforcement / construction project on Big Ten. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112737 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS016 (East Rocky) Arvada, CO 228 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak UP's track gang, which is working on replacing ties at the east switch of Rocky, has cleared the tracks to allow the morning Zephyr to creep through at 15 MPH. The foreman of the track gang has established was is known as a Form B. A Form B has starting and ending limits, and when active, a "red board", which is literally a red square board on a pole, is placed trackside. Trains are not allowed to pass the red board, regardless of block signals, or even dispatcher permission, without getting permission from the track foreman to enter the limits. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112727 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 215 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 154 is the newest Phase 7 unit that I have personally seen. Amtrak is slowly repainting their entire fleet of P42DCs. I do not know at what pace Amtrak is repainting the units, but if they are repainting them at an average of one a week, it'll take a little under four years for them all to be repainted. Regardless of the time, the Phase 5 scheme will be disappearing, so get your shots while you can! AMTK 22 is still in Phase 5b paint as the westbound Zephyr passes by on the main at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112726 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 265 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 154, sporting Phase 7 paint, leads the Zephyr at the east switch of Leyden, as well as through a 40 MPH slow order, as the train heads west here in Arvada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112718 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 199 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak As the westbound Zephyr rolls at track speed away from the camera at Crescent, we get nice view of the Continental Divide in the distance, as well as a good view of the dam at Gross Reservoir. Construction on the dam has been ongoing four about four years, as the dam is being raised by over 100 feet, a project that will triple the capacity of Gross Reservoir. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112717 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 236 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak I really like this particular perspective at Crescent, roughly halfway through the siding. The tracks come out of a nice little cut from the east, where the House Track starts. There are several nice (and right now, green) deciduous trees in the area as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112716 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Crescent (5,550 ft) Boulder County, CO 248 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Near the east end of Crescent, the Zephyr is on the main and moving west at track speed. There are several residences in the area that, if you don't mind living a very rural life, would be quite nice. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112715 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain to Crescent (MP 25.3 to MP 30.6) Boulder County, CO 252 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The longest Tunnel in the Tunnel District is Tunnel 17, which is 1,752 feet long, or roughly 1/3 of a mile long. The tunnel allows the tracks to leave South Draw, and connect with the open valley at Crescent, near Gross Reservoir. The westbound Zephyr is approach a clear (green) intermediate signal just east of Tunnel 17 on the approach to Crescent. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112714 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain to Crescent (MP 25.3 to MP 30.6) Jefferson County, CO 234 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is moving along one of the longer stretches without a tunnel in the Tunnel District, between Tunnel 16 and Tunnel 17. This area is known as South Draw, and is absolutely one of the highlights of riding the Zephyr (or other passenger trains) on the Moffat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112713 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain to Crescent (MP 25.3 to MP 30.6) Jefferson County, CO 277 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr heads west through a cut that is known as "Old Tunnel 17". When the Moffat Route was originally be built in the early 1900s, the tunnel presented a lot of geologic problems, includes frequent cave-ins. The tracks were rerouted around a shoofly outside of the tunnel. That shoofly is now beneath all the pine trees on the outside of the cut in this shot. Old Tunnel 17 was finally daylighted, and the tracks were moved to their current alignment, now moving through a cut instead of a tunnel. While Tunnels 9 and 28 were daylight quite awhile after the route had been in operation, they retained their numbers. Since "Old Tunnel 17" had issues from the beginning of construction, at was ultimately bypassed, the next tunnel to the west was numbered Tunnel 17 from the start. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112712 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 16 (MP 28.7, 698 ft) Jefferson County, CO 251 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Tunnel 16 is one of the longer tunnels in the Tunnel District, just two feet shy of 700 feet long. As a result, there is some exhaust that builds up in the tunnel, and you can see a bit of that exhaust coming out of the tunnel toward the left as the westbound Zephyr continues west in the Tunnel District. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112711 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 12 (MP 27.9, 429 ft) Boulder County, CO 254 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The start pair of P42DCs lead the westbound Zephyr as it emerges from Tunnel 12 and approaches Tunnel 13 in South Draw in the Tunnel District. 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