Photo ID: 107469 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Minturn Minturn, CO 1171 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific When starting on a grade, trains will often times use sand to help them gain traction and start (or keep) moving. Engines have nozzles that aim right between the wheel and the rail and can blast sand out at the point where they meet. Due to the 2.3% grade at the east end of Minturn, nearly every train would need sand to help it start rolling. So much sand, in fact, that there is still plenty of evidence of it along the siding twenty years later! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107468 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Minturn Minturn, CO 1162 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific We are 301 miles away from Denver...if you go through Pueblo first, that is! When the Denver & Rio Grande built its original line south of Denver, they turned west at Pueblo and, as we know, built over Tennessee Pass. The mileposts just kept increasing along the way as this was once the primary route for the railroad. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107467 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Minturn Minturn, CO 1166 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific Looking east at the east switch of Minturn, you can see right through the head of the dwarf signal on the siding! The lens and all the "guts" from the head are no gone, and there is an empty hole through the middle of it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107466 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Minturn Minturn, CO 1193 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific Trains descending the 3% grade of Tennessee Pass would see this view all the time as they approached the yard at Minturn. This is the east switch, which looks like it is in relatively good shape at first. But, look a little closer, and you'll see the lenses have been removed from most of the signal heads. The electrical equipment (wiring) is all long gone, too. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.