Photo ID: 111974 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 56 (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 64 (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 62 (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 55 (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 52 (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. Photo ID: 111967 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 40 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor for the MNYGJ is on the ground protected the shove of the power for the MNYGJ, backing toward the end of an eastbound coal train. UP 6858, the AC4400CW, will be attached to and left with UP 8579 to assist the coal train in the siding to climb the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. The manifest will continue west with three units on the head end (and a single DPU on the tail end). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111966 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 46 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The conductor on the MNYGJ is riding the trailing unit, an AC4400CW that was delivered to UP new in October 1995. The unit will be added to the tail end of an eastbound coal load, sitting on the siding at Granby. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111965 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 43 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 7504 and three trailing units have cut away from their train on the main at Granby. The fourth unit will be moved over to the siding and added to the end of an eastbound coal train, one of whose units failed the night before. Fortunately for the crew, the next train through will be the eastbound California Zephyr, still roughly three hours away. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111964 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 57 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP's MNYGJ has slowed to a stop on the main at Granby. The conductor has tied some hand brakes to the cars, and is working on uncoupling the power from the train. The fourth unit will be moved over to the siding and added to the end of the eastbound coal train, visible off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111963 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 7504 passes by the eclectic depot in Granby. You might note that half the depot platform is missing. Amtrak is in the process of rebuilding the platform. The new platform will be heated to reduce the risk of passengers slipping on snow and ice in the winter time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111962 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound UP manifest meets an eastbound UP coal load at Granby. Two UP trains meeting on the Moffat, with neither of them being an oil train, is pretty rare in 2025! The manifest is going to set out its fourth unit, adding it to the end of the coal train in the siding. The coal train does not have a crew at the moment. One of its current units failed and it needs to steal a unit from the manifest to make the climb up the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111961 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 48 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP coal load is tied down in the siding at Granby. It is waiting both a crew, and an additional unit from Denver. One of the units on the train failed, preventing the train from making the climb up the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111960 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 47 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single UP SD70ACe brings up a (somewhat rare) eastbound coal load. The train is currently tied down in the siding at Granby. Apparently, one of the units on the train failed as the train was moving through Fraser Canyon. The crew backed the train down between switches at Granby. It currently waits for an additional unit from Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109955 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 149 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you look a bit in the background of this oil train, you'll notice a bend in the tracks to the left. Indeed, you might notice that the main track where the back half of this train is looks to align perfectly with the siding on the far side of the bend. You'd be correct as, until sometime around 1990, there were actually two sidings at Granby. An east siding and a west siding. Each was about 4,700 feet long. The two siding were ultimately combined to make a single 7,325 foot long siding (and main) that exist today. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 109954 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, December 20, 2023 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound oil train is passing by the currently idle station at Granby on the main track. Indeed, the station will not be used again until a very late Amtrak #6 shows up about eight hours after this shot was taken. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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