In the final few fleeting moments of sunlight, the eastbound Zephyr passes through the east OS of Tolland. In the distance, the snow-covered Continental Divide sits under calm skies.
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The head end of this eastbound oil train is out of Tolland. If you look back in the distance, you can see a single UP SD70ACe-T4 bringing up the tail end of the train. Further in the distance, on the mountain side, you can see the route the tracks once took, prior to the Moffat Tunnel, that ran up and over Rollins Pass.
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An eastbound UP oil train is dwarfed by the Continental Divide and the clouds that are trying to blow over the top of it. The train is on the main at Tolland, just passing through the clear (green) signal at the east end.
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The Zephyr knocks down a clear (green) signal at the east end of Tolland, getting ever-closer to the east end of the Moffat Tunnel that will take it under the snow-capped Continental Divide.
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A pair of Ferromex SD70ACes are on the front end of a westbound coal empty at Tolland. The green and red units are likely not use to this high altitude and snowy weather as the train is just a few miles east of the Moffat Tunnel.
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A westbound BNSF coal empty knocks down a clear signal at the east end of Tolland as it charges west in the snow, a few miles east of the Moffat Tunnel. This would end up being the one and only train that ran on the Moffat during daylight hours on this chilly Saturday!
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A westbound (empty) oil train slowly pulls toward a yellow signal at East Tolland. Note the MNYRO in the siding at Tolland ahead. Both trains are waiting to head west. Which one will depart first is not yet clear. The Ski Train is unloading passengers at Winter Park and the tunnel is venting.
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Fall colors look pretty good at the bridge over South Boulder Creek less than a mile east of Tolland. Fresh snow covers the peaks of the Continental Divide, which this coal train just passed beneath!
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