Photo ID: 113169 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS074 (East Granby) Granby, CO 95 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr is running just a few minutes late after making its station stop at Granby. The Zephyr is overtaking a UP coal load in the siding amidst a very vivid fall scene here in the small town of roughly 2,300 residents. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113168 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 114 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is not particularly often than you see a loaded coal train on the Moffat with six units on the head end in 2025. Traditionally, UP's "preferred" setup for coal loads has been 2x3x1. In this case, this shorter-than-normal coal train was configured as 4x2. However, after breaking a drawbar overnight, two units came out of Denver and were added to the head end, making the train the 6x2 that it now is. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113167 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS074 (East Granby) Granby, CO 106 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP coal load is making final preparations to depart the siding of Granby eastbound. Take notice of the two "yellow/red" board that are either side of the track, near the front of the train. Union Pacific has a "Form B" (a work zone) setup between MP 75.65 and MP 75.88. The work zone is protected by similar looking "boards", but they are all-red. Trains are not allowed to pass the red boards without explicit permission from the track foreman in charge of the work zone. In this case, crews are working on the new platform at Granby. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113166 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS074 (East Granby) Granby, CO 107 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The (relief) crew on this eastbound UP coal load are getting close to being ready to head east. The conductor is knocking off hand brakes. Unfortunately (for the crew), DS-378 will be holding them here at Granby until the eastbound Zephyr passes by. Certainly the correct call by the dispatcher to try to keep the Zephyr moving. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113164 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS074 (East Granby) Granby, CO 98 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The original crew on this UP coal train went "dead" on their hours many hours ago. Once a crew "dies" (runs out of hours to work), they are not allowed to lift a finger. When the new crew arrived, the old crew simply sat in the cab of the previous lead unit and waited. They finally get to head home, catching a ride on the Rocky Mountaineer. The Mountaineer just came to a stop to pick them up and take them home to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113160 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 104 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound coal train broke a drawbar when climbing the grade between Tabernash and the Moffat Tunnel overnight. As a result of the delay, one of its units also ran out of fuel and shut down! The train had to back down to the siding at Tabernash. 10 hours later, and a new crew is going to add two new units to the head end to get the train over the grade. Of note, the current lead unit, UP 6278, started its life in May 1995 as SP 187. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113159 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 106 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific While taking some pictures around the Moffat Tunnel, I learned about two units sent west from Denver to assist a coal train at Granby. I decided to head to the west slope for some pictures. It is pretty crazy that, when I was at East Portal, I was only a little over six miles away from Winter Park (via the Moffat Tunnel). Yet by road, it was a 55 mile drive that took about 90 minutes! I finally made it to Granby, where I found the two units on the main, getting ready to work on the DPUs on the eastbound coal load. A new (heated) concrete platform at the Granby depot is nearing completion! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111974 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 206 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Power for the MNYGJ has been added back onto the train after dropping off one of its units on the tail end of the coal train on the siding in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111973 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS076 (West Granby) Granby, CO 191 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor for the MNYGJ rides the point of UP 7066 to protect the reverse move of the power of the MNYGJ east back onto its train, currently sitting on the main at Granby. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111972 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby to Sulphur (MP 76.2 to MP 84.6) Granby, CO 195 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Power for the MNYGJ, which just dropped off a unit with a coal load in the siding at Granby, is now on the main west of Granby. They are waiting on DS-78 to throw the switch at the west end of Granby, and to give them a restricting (flashing red) signal to back up to the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111971 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 177 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After leaving one unit behind on the tail end of an eastbound coal load int he siding at Granby, the three remaining units for the MNYGJ are heading west in the siding. They will head out onto the main so they can back onto their train. The west end of the house track has been severed for over a decade. I find it rather ironic that about 20 feet from the end of the house track, there is a derail set to the derail position! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111970 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 219 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As a UP crew works to transfer an engine from their manifest to the coal train in the siding at Granby, I thought I'd point out an interesting quirk about Granby. If you look in the distance, you'll note a slight dogleg to the left on both the main and siding. Back in the Rio Grande days, there were actually two sidings at Granby. The east siding was east of the overpass in the distance and was on the north side of the main. It was 4,550 feet long. The west siding was in the foreground on the track where the power is sitting in this shot, on the south side of the main. It was 4,650 feet long. In the 1990s, the two sidings were combined. On the east end, what had been the east siding became the main and the main became part of the single siding. The result is a dogleg where the switch had been, and a single siding that is 7,325 feet long. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111969 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 173 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor and the engineer of the MNYGJ work together to add the fourth unit from their train (to the left) to an eastbound coal load (to the right). They are ensuring all the MU cables are properly connected between the two units. The engineer is going to turn off the (dim) headlight on the previous trailing unit, and will turn on the (dim) headlight on the new trailing unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111968 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 200 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Without any context (or without reading this caption), this photo looks a bit odd. It appears that there are five UP units leading a westbound coal load in the siding at Granby. However, four of the five units are actually power from the North Yard to Grand Junction manifest to the left. The crew is cutting off the fourth unit from their train, adding it as the rear DPU for the coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111967 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 155 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor for the MNYGJ is on the ground protected the shove of the power for the MNYGJ, backing toward the end of an eastbound coal train. UP 6858, the AC4400CW, will be attached to and left with UP 8579 to assist the coal train in the siding to climb the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. The manifest will continue west with three units on the head end (and a single DPU on the tail end). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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