Photo ID: 100892 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 22, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 46 Rollinsville, CO 2073 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific I have been trying to get a picture like this one off and on for about three years now! In the past, a cloud would come along messing up the exposure, or it would be raining, etc. However, this morning, conditions were finally about as good as they can get as the MRONY crosses over the (newly rebuilt) bridge just east of Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100891 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 22, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland Rollinsville, CO 1946 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After meeting the Ski Train at East Portal, UP 4583 leads the MRONY-21 east through Tolland. You couldn't ask for a better summer afternoon in Colorado! The temperature outside was a pleasant 75 degrees. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100887 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 16, 2006 Damian Lydick Location Times Viewed Rollins Rollinsville, CO 2946 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A coal train bound for the Joint Line (and eventually Texas) meets a unit pipe train at Rollins. The pipe train is headed for Craig, CO where a new natural gas pipeline is under construction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster Email Questions or Comments to the photographer Damian Lydick or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100886 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 16, 2006 Damian Lydick Location Times Viewed Rollins Rollinsville, CO 3010 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is getting late in the day as UP 7322 heads east past the west switch of Rollins. A bit of smoke is coming off the brake shoes of the coal load as the engineer works his magic, keeping the load under control down the hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster Email Questions or Comments to the photographer Damian Lydick or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100880 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, July 16, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins Rollinsville, CO 2498 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An ongoing project west of Craig, CO involving the construction of a gas pipeline has required several unit pipe trains coming up the mountain westbound over the Moffat. It is a great change of scenery from the normal traffic! Here, one such train sits in the siding at Rollins awaiting a fresh crew from Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100640 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 18, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (DS050) Rollinsville, CO 2999 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ski Train The Ski Train blasts out of the Moffat Tunnel right on time at 4:30pm on a Saturday afternoon. The Ski Train has been making some very good time between Denver and Winter Park lately, often getting to its destination early! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100602 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 28, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal Rollinsville, CO 2009 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Qinghai-Tibet Railway JT 20004 is a C38AChe produced by General Electric. The unit is bound for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway (QTR) in China. The QTR started construction in June 2001 and will cross 715 miles when complete. Amazingly, over 600 of those miles will be over 13,200 feet above sea level, with the highest point being 16,740 feet above sea level. The crews on board the trains will indeed have respirators that they can where as needed at the high altitude. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100601 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 28, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal Rollinsville, CO 2260 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) General Electric GECX 905 (a C44-9CW test unit of GE) and JT 20004 (a C38AChe prototype unit by GE) sit on the wye at East Portal along with GECX 100 (GE's test car). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100598 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 15, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins Rollinsville, CO 1933 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A colorful MNYRO-16 heads west on a clear signal through Rollins, approaching less than perfect weather not too far up the canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100597 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 15, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland Rollinsville, CO 1778 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A storm making its way east toward Denver had Tolland engulfed in snow as UP 5627 heads west toward the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100596 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 15, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins Rollinsville, CO 1875 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 5627 leads the MNYPH-16 west at Rollins. This train, bound for Phippsburg, CO, consisted entirely of sand being hauled west. Being loaded (with only three units), the train was moving slow up the grade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100595 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 15, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (DS043) Rollinsville, CO 1949 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At the west switch of Rollins, Amtrak 5 (the California Zephyr) is working its way west on a clear signal. The second unit is a 8-32BWH making a very rare appearance in Colorado. These units operate almost exclusively in California these days. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100594 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 15, 2006 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (DS049) Rollinsville, CO 2549 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Ski Train In January, the sun is low enough in the sky in the mornings that it is hard shooting the Ski Train west of Plainview. On this particular Sunday morning, I went west to East Portal and got the train coming around the bend toward the east switch of the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100529 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 22, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 46 Rollinsville, CO 1423 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific While crews work to build a new concrete bridge as quickly as possible, UP crews prepare a section of panel track to be placed on the bridge once construction is complete. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 100528 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, October 22, 2005 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 46 Rollinsville, CO 1520 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The old Rio Grande bridge (built in 1948) that was located a mile or so east of Tolland has been torn out and replaced. On this day, UP crews and contractors worked hard to build the new concrete bridge that will support trains for many years to come! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

Previous Page     Next Page