Photo ID: 102690 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed North Yard 229 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF UP has been leasing seven units from BNSF for over a week now (BNSF is repaying some horsepower-miles). UP has kept all seven units together on the Moffat working on coal trains. Here, the units are set up in a 5x2 configuration on a coal empty waiting to leave the yard later in the afternoon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102691 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 14 231 (3 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP is doing a lot of work on the Cane Creek Sub between Brendel, UT and Potash, UT. The line is about to see a couple trains daily, working to clean up Uranium Tailings near Moab. The project will move 12 million tons of tailings over the next 10-20 years! This ballast will be laid along the tracks about 250 miles west of this shot. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102692 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 17 196 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific "Newest and New" lead up a Ballast Train at Rocky. I phrase it this way because I don't think it is fair to call an C40-8W "old" just yet! And an ES44AC definitely qualifies as "newest". Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102693 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 18 274 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific My eldest daughter - six years old here - stretches her legs and does a little posing for the camera as a westbound loaded ballast train approaches Little Ten Curve at the west end of Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102694 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 18 237 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CSMIM9-27 If only it were a few hours earlier! The eastbound coming through Clay is hiding in the shadows while a westbound ballast train waits on the main at Rocky. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102695 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 17 178 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound coal empty, headed for the West Elk Mine on the North Fork Branch. The train has six units that will be cut out in Glenwood Springs to be used as mid-train swing helpers on loaded coal trains coming east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102696 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 17 212 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Got exhaust? The sun was getting low in the western sky, which really amplified the exhaust coming out of the hard-working engines! Here, they are approaching the west end of Barbara's Gulch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102697 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 38 244 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ski Train As the days are slowly getting longer, it is getting easier to get shots of the Ski Train in the evening, making its way back down the mountain into town. On this evening, the train is running a few minutes late as it approaches the west end of Cliff. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102698 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 38 (West Cliff, DS038) 219 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ski Train The Ski Train has an approach (yellow) signal at west Cliff and is slowing. It will be meeting a heavy, slow ballast train at Cliff. The ballast train is in between Crescent at Cliff right now. Passengers enjoy the luxury of the ride in the Kansas on the back of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102699 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 11 179 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF For the past few weeks, UP has been running a coal train with unit BNSF power west on the Moffat. BNSF is repaying some horsepower-miles. The train was called at 3:00pm on this day, but didn't leave North Yard until about five minutes after sunset. This shot has an interesting effect, which is the result of 1600 ISO and very little light left! The train is approaching the east switch at Leyden, where it will take the siding to meet the already-waiting Ski Train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102700 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 11 192 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF This picture may look a little bit odd; might have some pastel-type qualities to it. It took a lot of massaging in PhotoShop to get the picture into a state that was reasonably viewable! It was well past sunset at this point, and in fact twilight was nearly over. This is a UP coal train running with unit (5x2) BNSF power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102701 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 12 (East Leyden, DS012) 169 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF Two BNSF helpers - an ES44AC and an AC4400CW - are pushing on the tail end of a westbound coal empty at Leyden. The train sat at Sable on the KP for three days due to two bad order cars. They were finally set out and the train made a dusk departure out of Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 102702 Date Shot Photo By February 28, 2009 Kevin Morgan Rail Location Times Viewed MP 12 (East Leyden, DS012) 196 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF The Ski Train has been waiting patiently for this westbound coal empty to pull into the clear in the siding at Leyden. The switch at the east end is currently be thrown, and the Ski Train will be rolling east very soon! 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