Photo ID: 105183 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Depot Fraser, CO 1509 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 199 leads the westbound Zephyr towards its station stop in Fraser. Amtrak's age (and deferred maintenance) shows on the nose of AMTK 199. The train will hang around at Fraser for about 10 minutes to give passengers time to board or disembark. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105184 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Fraser, CO 1509 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Despite the fact that June is only about a week away, that doesn't stop Colorado from producing some wild weather. About 15 minutes before this shot of Amtrak arriving at Fraser, it was actually [i]snowing[/i] pretty hard here at the platform! The Zephyr is pulling in just after 12:30pm, arriving Fraser roughly 2 1/2 hours late. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105185 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser Depot Fraser, CO 1387 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak To the best of my knowledge, Fraser is the highest station stop on Amtrak's system. As the sign on the platform indicates, Fraser is 8,574 feet above sea level. In this shot, passengers briefly stretch their legs and get a few pictures on the platform. On this day, there were two private cars on the tail end of the Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105186 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS065 (East Tabernash) Tabernash, CO 1583 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak At the east switch of Tabernash, the westbound California Zephyr enters the siding. The Zephyr is meeting the eastbound MRONY, currently holding on the main track. There is a grade crossing on the siding at Tabernash (but there is not one on the main, and the main and siding are not parallel to each other). As a result, coal trains or manifests that have to hold at Tabernash will typically hold the main so the grade crossing on the siding is not blocked. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105187 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tabernash Tabernash, CO 1389 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A pair of private cars (the "Evelyn A Henry" and the "Warren R Henry") were found on the back of the westbound Zephyr on this morning. The cars belong to Patrick Henry Creative Promotions. While the company specializes in food and beverage marketing, they own these two cars (which are based out of Houston) and you can charter the cars from the company. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105188 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tabernash Tabernash, CO 1868 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After meeting a (late) westbound California Zephyr at Tabernash, the MRONY (Manifest, Roper, UT to North Yard, CO) got a clear signal from the dispatcher to start pulling east. A little exhaust is kicked up as the head end starts pulling up the 1.29% grade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105189 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Granby Granby, CO 1530 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyrs has clear signals a few miles west of Granby. The train is descending away from the Continental Divide, visible off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105190 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers Canyon Grand County, CO 2280 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The headwaters of the Colorado River in Byers Canyon are quite high as the westbound Zephyr glides by on the opposite side of the canyon from the photographer. Even with the cover of the clouds, Byers Canyon look amazing. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105191 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Flat Grand County, CO 1556 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound California Zephyr has just exited from the west end of Byers Canyon. The engineer is now throttling up as track speed has increased from 20 MPH to 70 MPH! Despite Amtrak receiving a huge number of new baggage cars at the end of 2014, the new cars still haven't made an appearance on the Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105192 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Flat Grand County, CO 1493 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Perhaps you have seen buses in your town that have ads plastered on the side of them? Well, Amtrak has a Superliner with a similar ad for Cable Cars in San Francisco. Apparently, the car spent much of last year running on the Coast Starlight and has now moved to the California Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105193 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 39 Grand County, CO 1477 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr wraps around the long curve east of Tunnel 39. After the train run through the roughly 300-foot-long tunnel, it will be in Little Gore Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105194 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tunnel 39 Grand County, CO 1359 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak God's Country. Rain or shine, summer or winter, it is hard to beat the scenery of the Colorado Rockies! The Zephyr, about to enter Tunnel 39, is dwarfed by the vast valley around Azure in which the Colorado River can be found. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105195 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Little Gore Canyon Grand County, CO 1363 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak A look at the two private cars on the tail end of the California Zephyr, both owned by Patrick Henry Creative Promotions. The cars are based out of Houston, but were being used on this day to take some passengers from Chicago to San Francisco. In this shot, the train has just emerged from Tunnel 39 and is now in Little Gore Canyon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105196 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond Bond, CO 1464 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Bond, CO is a crew change point for Union Pacific (as it was for both Southern Pacific and Rio Grande too). Both eastbound and westbound trains (not running on the Craig Branch) stop in Bond. Westbound trains leave Denver with a Denver-based crew. Upon arriving in Bond, that crew goes to a hotel and a Grand Junction-based crew comes from the hotel. That crew gets on the train and takes it (to their home) in Grand Junction. There was an MNYRO in Bond that was swapping crews as I came through. The new crew started pulling toward the west end of Bond just as the westbound Zephyr came by on the main. In this shot, both trains are moving the same direction, the Zephyr on the main (with a clear signal ahead) and the MNYRO on the siding (with a red signal ahead). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105197 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 23, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bond Bond, CO 1590 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr runs down the main track at Bond along the Colorado River. The westbound MNYRO, with a fresh crew that just got on in Bond, is pulling as well on the siding. It will stop at the west end of Bond and wait for the eastbound Zephyr (which the westbound Zephyr will meet at Dell) before proceeding west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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