That is really not good! Note how a significant portion of the bottom of this bathtub gondola is missing? I have no clue how this happened, but it obviously caused a lot of problems on the Moffat. The westbound Zephyr was delayed over eight hours in Denver. The car is now in the house track at Rollins.
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After multiple hours of work, this UP crew finally has this broken bathtub gondola in the house track at Rollins. Due to a defect, the crew had to move at about 5 MPH, frequently stopping and inspecting, from the west end of Rollins all the way to the house track. The third crew for this track has just arrived and will be getting on to finishing getting the train back together.
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A UP crew member inspects a massive tear in the bottom of a bathtub gondola as the engineer very slowly creeps toward the house track at Rollins. You can see a small pile of coal near the second (broken) gondola. The crew is working to get the car in to the house track.
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After shooting this train about halfway through Cliff, I was really lucky to be able to get ahead of it in order to get this shot of it rolling west on the siding at Rollins. It is only because it was taking the siding (and, thus, slowing) that I was able to get ahead of it. The train is stopping here in order to allow the westbound Zephyr to run around it on the main.
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A westbound manifest has pulled to the west end of the siding at Rollins, facing a red signal. The train is going to be here for a little while, too! A very late westbound Zephyr is going run around the manifest and up to Tolland, where it will meet the eastbound Zephyr and the Ski Train. The manifest will wait for all three...
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In order to clear the switch at the west end of Rollins, this eastbound had to pull just past the crossing. Fortunately, the crossing is for the railroad only, so no cars were blocked. The train here will be on the roll again in about two hours, when a relief crew would come to take the train the rest of the way in to yard at Denver.
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The crew on this eastbound BNSF manifest will have to sit here on their train for about another two hours. The crew went dead (meaning they could no longer work after having been on the clock for 12 hours) just as this shot was being taken. A relief crew is called out of Denver, but won't leave the yard for another 15 minutes.
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Thirty years of GE technology work together as DPUs on the tail end of this eastbound BNSF manifest. BNSF 6797 is a relatively new ES44C4. CSX 7668 is a C40-8W that was built in the late 1980s.
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This unit is actually an older CSX unit, but looks mighty good as it just recently received a new paint job in the CSX Dark Future scheme. this is actually a C40-8W, built in the 1980s, and was one of the earlier wide cab units.
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Three days ago, on Valentine's Day, this matched set of CitiRail CREX ES44ACs led the BNSF Denver-Provo west. Once at Provo, they were serviced and sent back east to Denver on the Provo-Denver. Here, the train takes the siding at Rollins.
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A trio of CREX ES44ACs lead this eastbound BNSF Provo-Denver manifest in the siding at Rollins. The crew only has 23 minutes to get the train stopped before they "die", meaning they run out of time to work. After 12 hours, train crews are required by law to stop their train wherever they are.
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It is tricky finding good light for the Ski Train (and the Zephyr) as both run west in the morning and east in the evening. In other words, the sun is always behind the train. With F40PH 406 on the tail end of the Winter Park Express, however, this going away shot at Rollins in morning sunlight looks pretty darn nice.
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While there was no snow on the ground down in Denver, that is very much not the case here at 8,500 feet above sea level! The morning Ski Train glides through Rollinsville and the winter wonderland that it currently is.
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This westbound coal empty is about to knock down a clear signal at the west end of Rollins. The train met the eastbound Winter Park Express Ski Train here at Rollins, and will now have clear signals west to Tabernash. There, the train will hold the main to wait for a 2-hour-late Amtrak #5.
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It is a few minutes past sunset and, with the thick clouds, light is rapidly fading as a westbound coal empty pulls west toward a clear signal in the siding at Rollins.
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