Photo ID: 111047 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS131 (West Bond) Bond, CO 181 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Rocky Mountaineer, Union Pacific Similar to last year, the Rocky Mountaineer has once again run with UP power more frequently in 2024 than with its own GP40-3s. This Sunday was no exception as the train departs the west end of Bond and crosses over the Colorado River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111037 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Bond, CO 173 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 6038 sits just short of State Highway 131 at Bond, CO with the Phippsburg Local. In two minutes, the train will throttle up and start making the climb up from the Dotsero Cutoff and Glenwood Springs Sub (in the background where the coal empty is located), making its way back to the yard in Phippsburg. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111036 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Bond, CO 129 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This shot really demonstrates the diverging of alignments from the original Denver and Salt Lake and the Dotsero Cutoff. The original mainline that David Moffat used in an attempt to reach Salt Lake City has the Phippsburg Local sitting on it in the foreground. The Dotsero Cutoff, built about 30 years later, is in the distance with the coal empty. David Moffat's original mainline never made it west of Craig, CO, and the line is now the most underused stretch of CTC mainline in the country. This Phippsburg Local is about the only train that runs on the branch, only making a few trips each week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111035 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 177 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As the Phippsburg Local puts its train together at Bond, a westbound coal empty passes by on the main. Bond is a crew change point for UP trains, so this Denver-based crew is reaching its destination. A van is waiting around the corner in the yard at Bond to pick up the crew and take them to the hotel in Yampa. The same van also has the Grand Junction-based relief crew. The crews will swap out and the coal empty will continue west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111034 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 170 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Bond is a major control point on the Moffat. It marks the start of the Dotsero Cutoff that connects David Moffat's original mainline to the Denver and Rio Grande mainline. In this shot, the Phippsburg Local is backing to the second half of its train (in a yard track), putting the 38-car train together. Once it is put together, the local will depart west up the Craig Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109942 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 248 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 8230 and UP 5871 are in the OS at Bond, sometimes referred to as Orestod. Here, there are crossovers between the main and the east and west sidings at Bond, as well as Craig Branch. The name Orestod comes from Dotsero spelled backward. It is here that the Dotsero cutoff was built in the 1930, connecting the original Denver and Rio Grande Western (at Dotsero) with the Denver and Salt Lake (here at Bond, or Orestod). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109941 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 182 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Right at the transition from the Glenwood Springs Sub to the Moffat Tunnel Sub, an eastbound oil train creeps along on the siding at Bond. A fresh crew just got on the train and is preparing to depart eastbound. Note the rails breaking away and climbing a grade above the oil train. This is the Craig Branch that heads to Steamboat Springs and ultimately Craig. Once busy with coal traffic, the line between Bond and Phippsburg now sees about two trains per week on average. Locals from Phippsburg down to Bond and back. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108754 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 4, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 640 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Rocky Mountaineer UP 5105 has the eastbound Rocky Mountaineer rolling east on the siding through Bond. Most UP trains would change crews at Bond, but that was not the case with the Mountaineer. Crews from the Canadian-based tourist railroad have made the trip to Colorado and have qualified for running on the former Rio Grande. A single crew will operate between Denver and Glenwood Springs (and vice versa). Here, the train is on the siding as it will be meeting the westbound Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108324 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 780 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Here at Bond, also known as Orestod, the Zephyr creeps west through a 15 MPH slow order. The slow order is due to the extreme heat and the concern of sun kinks is the rails. The Craig Branch, leading to Energy and Axial mines, peals away from the main line here. The Zephyr changes from the Moffat Tunnel Sub to the Glenwood Springs Sub here as it starts on the Dotsero Cutoff. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107739 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Bond, CO 1216 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1988 and a 78-car loaded coal train cross CO-131 at Bond, CO. The train is descending the final few hundred feet of the Craig Branch before joining the mainline at Center Bond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107738 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Bond, CO 1333 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A nice roster shot (ish) of UP 1988 and UP 8237 leading an eastbound coal load down the Craig Branch toward a clear signal at the intermediate just west of Center Bond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107737 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Bond, CO 1323 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In fantastic early afternoon light, UP 1988 leads an eastbound coal load down the east end of the Craig Branch. I was very happy I had the opportunity to chase the train as I hadn't seen UP 1988 since 2007, and I had never seen it on an actual train on the mainline! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107736 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Bond, CO 1203 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Located high above Colorado State Highway 131, UP 1988 leads an eastbound coal load toward the end of the Craig Branch at Center Bond. To the left, you can see another coal load on the main at Bond. This train is on the Glenwood Springs Sub and on the Dotsero Cutoff. It will follow UP 1988 east toward Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107735 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Bond, CO 1252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1988 leads an eastbound coal load around the bend toward a clear intermediate signal west of Center Bond where the Craig Branch joins with the mainline. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106177 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS129 (Bond) Bond, CO 1370 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This westbound manager's special is rolling down the main at Bond (sometimes referred to as "Center Bond"). It is here than the Craig Branch (original grade of the Denver and Salt Lake) departs to the right and starts climbing toward Steamboat Springs. This control point also separates the East Siding from the West Siding at Bond. This is just about the end of the journey for the crew on the point of the manager's special. They will stop the train in Bond for a crew change. The next crew will take the train to Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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