Photo ID: 113551 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 15, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 33 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF There currently is not a lot of snow falling here at Granby, but the train is moving quick enough that it is kicking up a lot of fresh powder along the right-of-way. A pretty cool effect along the length of the empty unit oil train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113550 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 15, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 59 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A green signal at the west end of Granby lets the crew on this BNSF oil train know that they are clear to leave the siding and re-enter the single track main west of Granby. It is a very cold (roughly 12°F) morning with a lot of snow being kicked up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113549 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 15, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 38 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF At the time of this photo, there is a lot of question marks about the future of Norfolk Southern (and, technically, Union Pacific). The two railroads are attempting to merge, creating the first true transcontinental railroad. The Surface Transportation Board rejected the original filing, citing missing information. They did not reject/decline the merger, just the application. A new application is supposed to be submitted in the next few months, and the STB is expected to yield a decision sometime in 2027. Meanwhile, the two railroads continue to operate as separate entities. Here, an NS SD70ACe is putting in some power sharing miles on a BNSF oil train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113548 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 15, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 40 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF BNSF pretty consistently runs oil trains west on the Moffat with six units on the point. This way, the same six units, split up in a 3x3 configuration, can bring the train back east. 3-4 inches of fresh snow fell during a blizzard overnight. In fact, it continues to lightly fall this morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113547 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 15, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 44 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF What a difference 24 hours makes! The previous day, there was hard any snow on the ground here in the Colorado high country. But this morning, snow is finally falling. A westbound BNSF oil train is, for some reason, being run through the siding at Granby. It is not meeting anything. DS-378 just ran it in and out of the siding. Meanwhile, a beautiful new platform sits at Granby, ready for the Zephyr. The platform is heated to make it safer, although it appears a couple of heating element panels are not currently working. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113544 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak, Union Pacific The station stop at Granby is usually a very brief stop for the Zephyr. And today is no different. Conductors work to very quickly get two passengers on the train. From the time the train came to a stop to the time the train was highballing and starting to pull was around 60 seconds! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113543 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 14, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 42 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak, Union Pacific UP 5833, which replaced a P42DC on the eastbound Zephyr in Salt Lake City, has a ditch light out as the Zephyr moves along the recently-completed extended, heated, platform here at the Granby depot. Two passengers stand on the depot, waiting to board the train to head east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113168 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 201 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific It is not particularly often than you see a loaded coal train on the Moffat with six units on the head end in 2025. Traditionally, UP's "preferred" setup for coal loads has been 2x3x1. In this case, this shorter-than-normal coal train was configured as 4x2. However, after breaking a drawbar overnight, two units came out of Denver and were added to the head end, making the train the 6x2 that it now is. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113160 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 182 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound coal train broke a drawbar when climbing the grade between Tabernash and the Moffat Tunnel overnight. As a result of the delay, one of its units also ran out of fuel and shut down! The train had to back down to the siding at Tabernash. 10 hours later, and a new crew is going to add two new units to the head end to get the train over the grade. Of note, the current lead unit, UP 6278, started its life in May 1995 as SP 187. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113159 Date Shot Photo By Friday, September 26, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 187 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific While taking some pictures around the Moffat Tunnel, I learned about two units sent west from Denver to assist a coal train at Granby. I decided to head to the west slope for some pictures. It is pretty crazy that, when I was at East Portal, I was only a little over six miles away from Winter Park (via the Moffat Tunnel). Yet by road, it was a 55 mile drive that took about 90 minutes! I finally made it to Granby, where I found the two units on the main, getting ready to work on the DPUs on the eastbound coal load. A new (heated) concrete platform at the Granby depot is nearing completion! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111974 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 302 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Power for the MNYGJ has been added back onto the train after dropping off one of its units on the tail end of the coal train on the siding in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111971 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 264 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After leaving one unit behind on the tail end of an eastbound coal load int he siding at Granby, the three remaining units for the MNYGJ are heading west in the siding. They will head out onto the main so they can back onto their train. The west end of the house track has been severed for over a decade. I find it rather ironic that about 20 feet from the end of the house track, there is a derail set to the derail position! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111970 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 303 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific As a UP crew works to transfer an engine from their manifest to the coal train in the siding at Granby, I thought I'd point out an interesting quirk about Granby. If you look in the distance, you'll note a slight dogleg to the left on both the main and siding. Back in the Rio Grande days, there were actually two sidings at Granby. The east siding was east of the overpass in the distance and was on the north side of the main. It was 4,550 feet long. The west siding was in the foreground on the track where the power is sitting in this shot, on the south side of the main. It was 4,650 feet long. In the 1990s, the two sidings were combined. On the east end, what had been the east siding became the main and the main became part of the single siding. The result is a dogleg where the switch had been, and a single siding that is 7,325 feet long. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111969 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 282 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor and the engineer of the MNYGJ work together to add the fourth unit from their train (to the left) to an eastbound coal load (to the right). They are ensuring all the MU cables are properly connected between the two units. The engineer is going to turn off the (dim) headlight on the previous trailing unit, and will turn on the (dim) headlight on the new trailing unit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111968 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 268 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Without any context (or without reading this caption), this photo looks a bit odd. It appears that there are five UP units leading a westbound coal load in the siding at Granby. However, four of the five units are actually power from the North Yard to Grand Junction manifest to the left. The crew is cutting off the fourth unit from their train, adding it as the rear DPU for the coal train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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