Photo ID: 111037 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Bond, CO 50 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 6038 sits just short of State Highway 131 at Bond, CO with the Phippsburg Local. In two minutes, the train will throttle up and start making the climb up from the Dotsero Cutoff and Glenwood Springs Sub (in the background where the coal empty is located), making its way back to the yard in Phippsburg. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111036 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 8, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Bond, CO 49 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This shot really demonstrates the diverging of alignments from the original Denver and Salt Lake and the Dotsero Cutoff. The original mainline that David Moffat used in an attempt to reach Salt Lake City has the Phippsburg Local sitting on it in the foreground. The Dotsero Cutoff, built about 30 years later, is in the distance with the coal empty. David Moffat's original mainline never made it west of Craig, CO, and the line is now the most underused stretch of CTC mainline in the country. This Phippsburg Local is about the only train that runs on the branch, only making a few trips each week. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.