Photo ID: 108698 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 740 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This is the latest engine that is offered by General Electric. It is the ET44AH and it was first put in to production about six years ago. It is compliant with Tier-4 emissions standards. The Tier-4 units are more complex and, in general, have required more maintenance than Tier-3 (and older) units. Consequently, Tier-4 units from both GE and EMD have not been particularly big sellers. UP has 170 of these ET44AHs on the roster. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108697 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 738 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The siding of Rollins is the longest siding on the east slope of the Moffat at right around 8,300 feet. Ironically, for a long time, it was the shortest siding at only 4,300 feet. In the early 1980s, Rio Grande extended the siding a few hundred feet to the west and a few thousand feet to the east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108696 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 835 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Several years ago, UP installed a permanent derail on the siding at Rollins as it was not uncommon for train to be tied down here to wait for a recrew. As it happens, that is what is going on here with this coal train. The conductor is in the process of applying hand brakes on the train and, once done, he will come back here to the derail and align it for the derail position. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108695 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 738 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Sitting in the siding at Rollins alongside South Boulder Creek, UP 7485 is facing a red signal at the east end of Rollins. The crew has been instructed by the dispatcher to tie the train down, so the conductor is out of view around the corner applying hand brakes to the train. A van is on the way up from Denver to pick up the crew. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108694 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 721 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Folks working in the white building will have to put up with the sounds of idling engines for the next 18 hours or so! This coal train has been told that they cannot continue east on the Moffat due to maintenance. The train is currently being tied down and will not be moving until tomorrow morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108693 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Gilpin County, CO 735 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A look right in to the face of UP 8976, an SD70AH. The SD70AH is nearly identical to an SD70ACe. The only difference is that the "AH" model has an additional 8,000 pounds of weight, allowing it to have slightly better traction. Useful on heavy trains, such as coal trains! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108692 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 10, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 759 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal load sits in the siding at Rollins, across a field from South Boulder Creek. The train is in the process of being tied down, as maintenance will not allow any trains to run on the east slope of the Moffat right now due to heat affecting the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108316 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 820 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound coal train has now been at Rollins for close to 14 hours. That was due to a defective gondola, which has been set out in the house track to the left. The dispatcher let the eastbound Zephyr and BNSF's Provo-Denver around the coal load through the siding before also getting the coal load a clear signal to finally proceed east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108311 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 814 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Notice anything unusual about this shot? Such as the fact that you can see right through the gondola to the rail head and ties below!? The bottom of the gondola ripped apart and away from the car somehow, dumping a significant portion of the cars coal in the process. Much of the coal still remains, teetering in the car. The car is in the house track at Rollins where it will wait until UP figures out what to do with it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108310 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 813 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108309 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 815 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108308 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 847 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107045 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, January 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 1171 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106959 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 1147 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 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... Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106454 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 17, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 1401 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) CREX, BNSF 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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