A bit of snow remains on the ground as a westbound BNSF manifest charges west out of Leyden toward a clear intermediate signal. With a little luck, the train will make it to Grand Junction with a single crew.
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An ES44C4 and two C44-9Ws, both still in Heritage 2 paint, lead a westbound Denver-Provo manifest west of Leyden. The train held the main to wait for its counterpart, which took the siding and tied down.
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An aerial shot of a westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest coming west out of Leyden. The body of water in the immediate background is Welton Reservoir. The body of water further back is Stanley Lake. This general area of Arvada has been exploding in the last decade, and more development is likely to come.
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After a morning of mostly overcast skies, the clouds gave way as BNSF's Provo-Denver departed East Rocky. The sunlight nicely lit up the two DPUs brining up the rear of the train. The train is rolling through Barbara's Gulch, heading for the siding at Leyden.
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An ES44C4 leads an eastbound BNSF manifest - the Provo to Denver - out of Rocky and through the narrow west end of Barbara's Gulch. The train will meet its counterpart at Leyden. It will take the siding and tie down at Leyden. The yard currently has no room for the train, so it'll be held out for awhile.
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An ET44C4 and an ES44AC bring up the tail end of BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest. This angle, just east of the bridge over CO-72 at Coal Creek, really exemplifies the S-Curves through Blue Mountain.
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A BNSF Provo-Denver manifest descends down from Tunnel One at the base of Coal Creek Canyon, crossing over CO-72. As is quite common for BNSF manifests on the Moffat, roughly half of the train consisted of tank cars.
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A pair of GEs, facing the "wrong way", bring up the tail end of a loaded oil train east at the west switch of Leyden. The train met Amtrak at Eisele (Clay) and now has clear signals the rest of the way in to the yard.
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They tend to be few and far between these days, but every once in awhile you can still luck out and find an oil train on the Moffat! Such was the case on this morning just west of Leyden, as a loaded BNSF oil train rolls east in great morning sunlight.
After meeting three westbounds between Winter Park and Granby, this BNSF Provo-Denver had clear signals the rest of the trip down the front range to Denver. Here, the train passes by secluded Oberon Lake just east of Kipling Street in Arvada.
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Coming through Little Ten Loop, this rail train - interestingly running without a buffer car - is making its way west toward the west switch of Rocky.
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This loaded rail train is restricted to 40 MPH, which should be no problem for these two units on the point. The train is about halfway through Rocky, passing the west end of the house track and the switch to the Rocky Spur.
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A pair of ES44C4s lead a loaded rail train west at Rocky. Many people jokingly said rumor would start that BNSF is taking over maintenance on the Moffat, but this is just a train heading for San Bernardino in California and is taking the former Grande for routing.
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BNSF made an interesting routing choice with loaded rail train. The train is headed for San Bernardino in California, but to get there will run west to Stockton, CA and then south over Tehachapi, through Barstow, and down Cajon to San Bernardino.
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It is a hot August day and the foliage is just about at its max for the Denver area. A loaded BNSF sand train crawls west between Leyden and Rocky.
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