Photo ID: 106961 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1245 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 145 is the second unit out on the westbound Zephyr on this day...the light is rapidly fading as the sun is behind clouds to the west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106960 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1111 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A very late Zephyr rolls west in the siding at Tolland. The train will have to wait here for close to an hour for the eastbound Zephyr and the Ski Train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106455 Date Shot Photo By Friday, February 17, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1288 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After getting some shots of a BNSF manifest in the siding at Rollins, I decided to come west to Tolland as I knew the Zephyr was on time and was headed up the hill. While it had been mostly overcast so far that morning, the sun broke through a bit to add some nice light to this shot of #5. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106323 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1561 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 196 and 156 bring up the tail end of the Winter Park Express at Tolland. These units, being controlled by the F40PH (an NPCU) on the other end, are keeping the trains speed under control with their dynamic brakes. Note the red class lights on the nose of AMTK 196, indicated the back of the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106322 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 2105 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak You couldn't ask for better weather conditions when the subject of your picture is the Winter Park Express Ski Train! Amtrak F40PH #406 (now technically an NPCU) leads the eastbound train through blowing snow in the rapidly fading light at Tolland. If you are unfamiliar with the term NPCU, it refers to a Non-Powered Cab Unit. This F40PH no longer has a prime mover under the hood. The cab itself is still unaltered though, complete with a control stand. The control stand remotely controls the P42DCs on the other end of the train. So, when climbing a grade, the train is actually being pushed up the grade (when in this configuration), not pulled. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106321 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 2013 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The nose of Amtrak F40PH #406 emerges from a huge snow cloud...a cloud that the F40PH itself created as it blasted through a snow bank at the grade crossing at Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106320 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 2120 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak High winds and snow plows worked together to pile up some snow on the right of way at the grade crossing at Tolland. Snow that the eastbound Winter Park Express has no problem bursting through! Amtrak F40PH #406 knocks the white stuff out of the way on the main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106319 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1541 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Running roughly 20 minutes late, the eastbound Winter Park Express approaches the grade crossing at Tolland in relatively low light. The train was delayed a bit as it had to run through the Moffat Tunnel at 15 MPH. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106216 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 25, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1477 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The yellow-orange paint that Rio Grande used on its engines up until the mid-1980s was referred to as "Aspen Gold", and this is why! Rio Grande's paint scheme looked mighty fine among the changing aspens. Nearly three decades after the end of Rio Grande, a BNSF manifest pulls down the main at Tolland. The train will take the siding at East Portal to meet the eastbound California Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105904 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 12, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 2127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Electro-Motive Division, Union Pacific A bit of winter weather blows over the Continental Divide to the west as EMD's SD70ACe-T4 special glides east on the main at Tolland. The special made extremely good time on its way back east. After this shot, I was unable to catch the train again until Blue Mountain. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105723 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1531 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Almost without exception, Union Pacific runs coal trains on the Moffat in either a 2x3x1 configuration or a 2x2x2 configuration. Note I said almost. This is one of the exceptions. The train is set up in a 2x5x2 configuration (which I had actually never seen before), giving a total of nine units working to move the 115 car train east! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105722 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1420 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Light is quickly fading as an eastbound coal load, kicking up some snow, meets a westbound BNSF manifest at Tolland. Interestingly, I shot this exact same coal train the previous day when it was headed west! The train loaded at the Energy Mine overnight and is now headed back to Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105721 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1915 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP coal load emerges from the shadows on the main at Tolland, meeting a westbound BNSF manifest that has been sitting in the hole for over an hour awaiting the coal trains arrival. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105720 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1398 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The headlights are off and the crew is getting comfortable! The train is in the clear at Tolland and is now waiting for a pair of eastbounds, both of which are still on the other side of the divide. The temperature outside here is -2°F with some strong winds, bringing the wind chill down to "don't stand outside for more than a few minutes!" Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105719 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 10, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1442 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest pulls into the clear in the siding at Tolland. The crew is in for a bit of a wait here as they are going to have to wait for two eastbounds, the first of which is over an hour away! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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