Photo ID: 111966 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 on the MNYGJ is riding the trailing unit, an AC4400CW that was delivered to UP new in October 1995. The unit will be added to the tail end of an eastbound coal load, sitting on the siding at Granby. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111965 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 192 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 7504 and three trailing units have cut away from their train on the main at Granby. The fourth unit will be moved over to the siding and added to the end of an eastbound coal train, one of whose units failed the night before. Fortunately for the crew, the next train through will be the eastbound California Zephyr, still roughly three hours away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111964 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 228 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's MNYGJ has slowed to a stop on the main at Granby. The conductor has tied some hand brakes to the cars, and is working on uncoupling the power from the train. The fourth unit will be moved over to the siding and added to the end of the eastbound coal train, visible off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111963 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 197 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 7504 passes by the eclectic depot in Granby. You might note that half the depot platform is missing. Amtrak is in the process of rebuilding the platform. The new platform will be heated to reduce the risk of passengers slipping on snow and ice in the winter time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111962 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 220 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound UP manifest meets an eastbound UP coal load at Granby. Two UP trains meeting on the Moffat, with neither of them being an oil train, is pretty rare in 2025! The manifest is going to set out its fourth unit, adding it to the end of the coal train in the siding. The coal train does not have a crew at the moment. One of its current units failed and it needs to steal a unit from the manifest to make the climb up the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111961 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 157 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP coal load is tied down in the siding at Granby. It is waiting both a crew, and an additional unit from Denver. One of the units on the train failed, preventing the train from making the climb up the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111960 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 176 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single UP SD70ACe brings up a (somewhat rare) eastbound coal load. The train is currently tied down in the siding at Granby. Apparently, one of the units on the train failed as the train was moving through Fraser Canyon. The crew backed the train down between switches at Granby. It currently waits for an additional unit from Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109955 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 211 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you look a bit in the background of this oil train, you'll notice a bend in the tracks to the left. Indeed, you might notice that the main track where the back half of this train is looks to align perfectly with the siding on the far side of the bend. You'd be correct as, until sometime around 1990, there were actually two sidings at Granby. An east siding and a west siding. Each was about 4,700 feet long. The two siding were ultimately combined to make a single 7,325 foot long siding (and main) that exist today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109954 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 351 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound oil train is passing by the currently idle station at Granby on the main track. Indeed, the station will not be used again until a very late Amtrak #6 shows up about eight hours after this shot was taken. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109953 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 300 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As the sun is dipping lower and lower in the western sky, this eastbound oil train is on the roll, climbing the grade on the mainline at Granby. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109952 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 205 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak As far as train station go in 2023, the Granby Station is by far one of better looking, more well kept stations that you will find in the United States, particularly in small towns. Even though there are only two Amtrak stops per day, both of which are generally less than three minutes, the station looks fantastic! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109951 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS076 (West Granby) Granby, CO 373 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound oil train is facing a clear (green) signal at West Granby. However, the train is currently stopped. The reason? There is a gas station located right next to the rails here and the conductor has made a quick trip over to the store to buy some supplies for himself and the engineer on their trip east to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109933 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 283 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr is slowing for a brief station stop at Granby. The train arrived ahead of schedule, and stayed stopped at the depot until the scheduled departure time of 10:37am. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107756 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby Granby, CO 1272 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 1988 leads an eastbound coal load toward (and past) the passenger depot in Granby. The train will continue east to Tabernash where it will wait until the eastbound Zephyr can get around. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107755 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby Granby, CO 1175 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific From right to left, we have the main track, the siding, and the house track at Granby. Interestingly, not only does the main have welded rail, but the siding has welded rail as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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