Photo ID: 112697 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Plain (6,530 ft) Arvada, CO 29 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The final bit of sunlight for the day is reflecting off some thunderclouds over the plains, the Denver skyline visible toward the left in the distance. This UP officer special has come to a stop just short of the grade crossing at Plain. The train will wait here for the eastbound California Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112696 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 34 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific On average, once or maybe twice a year, UP will run an Officer Car Special over the Moffat. Usually, the passenger cars are deadheading between Council Bluffs, IA and somewhere in California. That seems to be the case here, as nobody is actually on the train itself. The train is emerging from Tunnel 1, running on a Approach Diverging (yellow over yellow) signal, reading to take the siding at Plain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112695 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 1 (MP 23.4, 366 ft) Arvada, CO 36 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Although the sun has ducked behind the mountains, it is technically still 20 minutes to sunset as a pair of SD70Ms lead a UP OCS (Officer Car Special) into Tunnel 1. The train is deadheading 11 cars (plus a power car) from Council Bluff, IA west toward California. The train will spend the night tonight in Glenwood Springs. The train was expected to head west about six hours earlier, but some maintenance around town resulted in a much later departure west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112694 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Eisele (Clay) (5,780 ft) Arvada, CO 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A relatively small downpour south of Big Ten toward Golden reveals a small hint of a rainbow as a UP passenger special rolls west through the siding at Eisele (Clay). The train was going to stop here to meet the eastbound Zephyr, but DS-378 decided to take the train up to Plain for the meet. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112693 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Big Ten Curve (MP 19.5 to MP 20.2) Arvada, CO 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 4404 and UP 4533 throttle up and kick up some exhaust after clearing a slow order, picking up speed while climbing out of Rocky, up and around Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112692 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rocky (7,330ft) Arvada, CO 27 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A UP officer's special wraps round Little Ten Curve at Rocky as a rainbow forms toward the south over the town of Golden. A few small afternoon showers let a bit of rain fall today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112691 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Under some partly cloudy skies, 40 minutes before sunset, a pair of SD70Ms lead a Union Pacific officer's special west out of Leyden. UP sold off quite a bit of their passenger equipment, but still has enough to make a great looking train! The train is headed for Glenwood Springs tonight, and will continue west tomorrow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112690 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Leyden to Rocky (MP 13.4 to MP 17.4) Arvada, CO 32 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A pair of SD70Ms, with some great looking paint, lead a UP passenger train west out of Leyden. You can see the Denver Skyline in the distance. Note the pair of antenna on the cab of UP 4404. Not sure if those are related to PTC, or something else. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112689 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS013 (West Leyden) Arvada, CO 29 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This westbound OCS (Officer Car Special) is headed slowly west, operating under some slow orders through Leyden. The train is about to knock down a clear (green) signal at the west end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112687 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 20 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Three P42DCs lead the Zephyr west at Utah Jct, under what might just be the last-remaining Rio Grande signal bridge on the former Rio Grande. The searchlight signals on the bridge are also some of the last Rio Grande signals still in operation in Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112686 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS003 (Utah Junction) Denver, CO 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The California Zephyr is on UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub, crossing over the diamond for the Belt Lead at Utah Jct, at the north end of North Yard. This is the second consecutive day that the train is running with three P42DCs. Not sure why...perhaps just a power move to California. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112685 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, June 29, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed North Yard to Utah Jct (MP 3.0 to MP 3.2) Denver, CO 27 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr has three P42DCs on the head end today on a train whose number today is 1005 instead of 5. The train purposefully departed Chicago four hours late the day before, with the entire schedule delayed by four hours, all the way to Emeryville, CA. As such, an on time departure from Denver would have been 12:46pm. The train was about an hour delayed when it finally departed, now passing by North Yard to the right, and Rennicks yard to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112678 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland to East Portal (MP 47.7 to MP 48.9) Gilpin County, CO 24 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The paint on UP 6397 has certainly seen some better days as the unit crosses over East Portal Road roughly halfway between the west switch of Tolland and the east switch of East Portal. About 20 years ago, there were rumors that Union Pacific was considering a project to connect Tolland and East Portal. However, if any such project was ever seriously considered, it was dropped with the economic bubble, and start in the downturn of coal, in 2008. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112677 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Detector (MP 48.0) Gilpin County, CO 22 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Not too far west of the west switch of Tolland, UP 6397 and train pass through the high/wide detector at MP 48. The wire surrounding the tracks on the detector is just slightly smaller than the smallest bore of any tunnel between here at Denver. If any loads have shifted, causing something to stick out of the train, better to break a wire than hit a tunnel wall. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 112676 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 27, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The deciduous trees here at Tolland are some late-bloomers. I was up here about a month earlier in May, and all these trees were still devoid of leaves. However, thanks to a relatively wet spring, they are now as green as you can get, filled with leaves as this westbound coal empty passes by at the west end of Tolland. Note the classic yellow and green Tolland school house on the left side of the frame. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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