Photo ID: 106322 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, January 8, 2017 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 2062 (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 1979 (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 2087 (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 1515 (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 1437 (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 2092 (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 1501 (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 1400 (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 1875 (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 1378 (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 1421 (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. Photo ID: 105088 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1811 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific In my personal opinion, it doesn't get too much better than this! Crystal clear Colorado skies at 9,000 feet above sea level. Snow blanketing the ground and a pair of flagged DPUs pushing on the tail end of the MNYRO (Manifest, North Yard to Roper) as it heads out of the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105087 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1587 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An absolutely gorgeous "Pi Day" at Tolland as the power on the MNYRO sits in great sunlight against a wintery Continental Divide backdrop. Why "Pi Day"? Well, for the math geeks out there, the value of Pi is roughly 3.1415925. The date for this picture just happens to be 3/14/15. This picture was taken at 9:30, five minutes after 9:25. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105086 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1460 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Two westbounds sit side-by-side at Tolland, both waiting to see who gets to continue west first. At a glance, how can you easily tell which train is on the main and which is on the siding? If you look at the track to the left, note that there are regular joints in the rail periodically. Not the case for the track to the right. That indicates the track to the left, having "jointed" rail, is the siding. The mainline has welded rail. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105085 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tolland (9,356 ft) Tolland, CO 1619 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The MNYRO (to the left) went in to emergency when entering the siding at Tolland. To ensure nothing is wrong, the conductor had to walk the train. Upon completing the inspection (and finding everything in order), the oil train (to the right) picked up the conductor at the back of the train and gave him a ride up to the head end. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

Previous Page     Next Page