Photo ID: 113199 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Eagle County, CO 25 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A trio of GE's, the first of which is a former Espee AC4400CW, leads a westbound manifest around Copper Spur Road on the Craig Branch just west of Tunnel 44. It is incredible to think that this was once the mainline for the Denver and Salt Lake! And even in later years in the 1950s and 1960s, how amazing would it have been to ride the Yampa Valley Mail through here!? Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113196 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Eagle County, CO 31 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Three units lead a 70-car train on the Craig Branch as it makes the curve to head up Copper Spur Road. The track run about 1/2 a mile up Copper Spur Road, make a 180° curve, and comes back out. This is necessary to keep the grade down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113195 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Eagle County, CO 34 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific About a mile west of the start of Craig Branch at Bond (also known as Orestod), this MBOPH (manifest from Bond to Phippsburg) is starting the climb up the branch, rolling around at about 20 MPH. CO-131 is the road below, which leads from Bond to Yampa, Phippsburg, and Steamboat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113194 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 5, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond to Crater (MP 128.8 to MP 138.1) Eagle County, CO 26 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 6362 is starting to pull on a 70-car manifest, comprised of 67 loaded covered hoppers (frac sand) and three cars of pipe. Note the significant grade difference between the Craig Branch above and the Dotsero Cutoff below. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. 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 346 (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 279 (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.