Photo ID: 106965 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1300 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Continental Divide is shrouded in clouds as the eastbound Zephyr (running right on time) meets the westbound Zephyr (running close to eight hours late) at Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106964 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1345 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak When they are both running on time, the daily Zephyrs typically meet somewhere around Dotsero or Range. The westbound Zephyr is very much not running on time today, now over seven hours late as it sits in the siding at Tolland, meeting its counterpart. The opportunity for a meet between the Zephyr on the east slope of the divide is a rare one indeed! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106963 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1420 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The high winds speeds already are kicking up quite a bit of snow, but the swiftly moving eastbound Zephyr is definitely making its own contribution to the swirling white stuff as it crosses the grade crossing at Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106962 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1592 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Hope you have your parka! While the temperature is 30°F, it feels closer to 15°F as there are wind gusts of 40+ MPH here in the valley at Tolland. Plenty of blowing snow is kicked up as the westbound Zephyr slows to a stop in the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106961 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 7, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Gilpin County, CO 1256 (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 1126 (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 1304 (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 1575 (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 2127 (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 2030 (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 2142 (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 1556 (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 1491 (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 2141 (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 1544 (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.

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