Photo ID: 104156 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Flat Parshall, CO 1614 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After meeting the eastbound MRONY at Flat, the westbound Zephyr has a clear signal out the west end. The DPU on the end of the MRONY can be seen here as the manifest starts to pull east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104157 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Flat Parshall, CO 1449 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak This is a fairly typical consist for the Zephyr these days. Two P42DCs, a baggage car and eight Superliners. Depending on the numbers of bookings, the only real variance is that the Zephyr may have only seven Superliners or may in fact have nine. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104158 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers Canyon Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 2060 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A few miles west of Hot Sulphur Springs and this Roper to North Yard manifest is charging up the grade along the head waters of the Colorado River in Byers Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104159 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers Canyon Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 2167 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Wheel flanges were whining as the MRONY winds its way through Byers Canyon. You may notice the train has a special visitor. The third unit is a GP40-2 that was picked up at Grand Junction. It has been switching on locals and is headed to Denver for an routine inspection. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104160 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers Canyon Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 2018 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande You may not know it just from this picture, but this is a rather special GP40-2 on UP's roster. You may have guessed at this point that this is a former Rio Grande GP40-2...and you'd be correct. However, this was the first Rio Grande unit to be assimilated in to (and painted in) Union Pacific yellow. In mid-1997, DRGW 3122 had the "honor" of receiving the first repaint on Rio Grande's roster. The unit has somehow managed to keep it's original UP number (5245) and has also managed to stay in Colorado working on locals for the past 15 years, working out of Colorado Springs, North Yard (in Denver) and Grand Junction. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104161 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Granby Granby, CO 1749 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A couple of blocks west of Granby finds the eastbound MRONY crossing County Road 57. I'm a big fan of the shot looking down the straight away here and definitely have a goal of shooting an eastbound in good morning light during peak "fall colors" season one of these years. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104162 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS057 (East Winter Park) Winter Park, CO 1808 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Not too hard to determine where this was taken! The winter ski season is getting close to an end as this westbound MNYRO pops out of the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel and passes by a still-busy Winter Park ski resort. This former Espee AC4400CW is one of a handful that got double UP shields on the nose when it was patched. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104163 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS057 (East Winter Park) Winter Park, CO 1613 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific You can see numerous skiers still hitting the slopes of Winter Park in the background as the tail end DPU on this MNYRO emerges from the Moffat Tunnel and passes the repeater signal at MP 56.5. This signal displays the same aspect as the east switch of Winter Park, which can be see in the distance toward the right side of the photo. The signal allows westbound trains to know what to expect at the east switch of Winter Park. If this repeater is red, trains may pass the signal, prepared to stop at east Winter Park. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104164 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby Granby, CO 1483 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound coal train slows in the siding at Granby as it approaches the depot. The train will let a crew member off here in Granby and a westbound manifest will pick him up and carry him back to Bond. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104165 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Granby Granby, CO 1652 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Snow-covered peaks of the Continental Divide make for a great backdrop as UP's MNYRO highballs west a couple of miles outside of Granby. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104166 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers Canyon Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 2216 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Ewww...I'm not exactly sure what that is in the water and I'm not sure I want to know! The MNYRO follows the head water of the Colorado River west through Byers Canyon with a lot of the water's top still frozen. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104167 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Parshall, CO 2082 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific After departing Byers Canyon westbound, trains have a chance to "stretch their wheels" for a bit and pick up some speed. For a ten mile stretch, freights can run up to 60 MPH! The westbound MNYRO is doing its best to reach that goal here in the town of Parshall, CO about a mile east of Flat. Note the super-elevated curve the boxcars are coming around in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104168 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Parshall, CO 1591 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF After meeting UP's MNYRO at Flat, it's green signals for this extremely short BNSF manifest! The train has four units (only two of which are powered) and only 31 cars in tow. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104169 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Sulphur Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 2151 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF How about a different perspective for Byers Canyon? While most shots come from the south side of the rails, we are looking down on this eastbound from the north side of the rails just at the mouth of the east end of the canyon. You can see US-40 on the opposite side of the Colorado River. A few hundred feet more and the train will knock down the clear signal at the west switch of Sulphur. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 104170 Date Shot Photo By Monday, March 19, 2012 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby, CO 1787 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A 35-minute-late Zephyr slows on the main at Granby in preparation for it scheduled station stop at the depot. An eastbound BNSF manifest cleared up in the siding to allow the Zephyr to pass it without being further delayed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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