Photo ID: 105332 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2216 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Looking east out the east portal of Tennessee Pass Tunnel, you can see what is left of the signal at the west end of Tennessee Pass siding. Eastbounds would be able to see this signal from well inside the tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105333 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2078 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Standing at the east portal of Tennessee Pass Tunnel, my wife looks up, inspecting the roof of the tunnel portal. You can see the peak of summit just behind her, as the tracks quickly disappear to start the descent down the west side of the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105334 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2031 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Since it is now 6:30pm, the sun is well past the proper position to illuminate the east portal of Tennessee Pass Tunnel. Still, I thought that a picture (even if cast in shadows) of the approach to the tunnel would be a good one to include. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105335 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2793 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Similar to the Moffat Tunnel, Tennessee Pass Tunnel has a curtain! You are looking at it here, rolled up outside the east portal. However, the purpose of the curtain is quite different from that of the Moffat. Whereas the curtain at the Moffat is designed to help vent the tunnel of exhaust, the curtain at Tennessee Pass is used to keep snow and ice out of the tunnel during the winter. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105336 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2456 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific A look at the east portal of Tennessee Pass Tunnel and a straight shot through to the west portal. While a good sized tunnel at 2,550 feet, it would still take 12.5 of these tunnels lined up end-to-end to equal one Moffat Tunnel. One of the (arguably few) advantages of crossing the Continental Divide 1,000 feet higher up! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105337 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 2412 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande If, by some miracle, Tennessee Pass was ever put back in service, it would not be with a functioning CTC system. At least, not with the remaining equipment from the original CTC system! As you can see in this picture, this power switch at the east end of Tennessee Pass has been cannibalized. Such is the case with most of the equipment left behind on the pass. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105338 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 2286 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific A signal cabinet, with its door wide open, reveals that most of the wire has been removed from inside. Done so by Union Pacific, or by scavengers looking for things like copper, it isn't clear. What is clear that none of the existing CTC equipment left on Tennessee Pass will ever be capable of functioning again! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105339 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 282.5 Eagle County, CO 2083 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Welcome to the portion of Tennessee Pass that has 3% grades. This is just west of the west portal of the tunnel, near the location of the former siding of Mitchell. Tennessee Pass is roughly 220 miles long between Pueblo and Dotsero. It is somewhat ironic that the main reason the line is now idle is due to roughly 12 miles of 3% grades! Other than those 12 miles, the grade on Tennessee Pass is actually not as steep (on average) as the Moffat. Other than between Minturn and the summit, the grades on Tennessee Pass are all under 2%! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105340 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pando Eagle County, CO 2009 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Pando is an 8,200 foot long siding located about six miles west of the summit of Tennessee Pass. It is in an open valley that was once home to Camp Hale. Camp Hale was a US Army camp built in 1942 to help train members in the armed forces to fight in winter conditions. the camp remained opened until 1965 when the land was given to the U.S. Forest Service. While it was open, soldier came and went by means of rail and a depot, now gone, at Pando. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105341 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pando Eagle County, CO 2044 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Here is a classic view taken at Pando from the U.S. 24 overpass. Many pictures were taken over the years of eastbounds attacking the steep grade from this bridge. Today, huge bushes (as tall as 10 feet high) have grown alongside and in the middle of the siding here at Pando! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105343 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pando Eagle County, CO 2113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific The tracks move from the (geographic) west side of U.S. 24 to the east side of U.S. 24 at Pando. The overpass offers a great view of the tracks both to the east and the west. This shot here is looking east. Would be a great shot of a westbound, particularly in the morning in the summer months. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105344 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Belden Red Cliff, CO 2113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific The siding of Belden is just shy of being two miles long. It is also difficult to see most of the siding as it runs along the Eagle River deep in a canyon. The east end can be viewed from above from U.S. 24. looking down toward the canyon. Due to the grade, eastbounds holding the siding would sometimes have to make multiple attempts to depart! If they could not get sufficient traction, they would stall out and back down into the siding at try again. Here, you can see a couple of rock slide, covering portions of the siding! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105345 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Belden Red Cliff, CO 2036 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific A close look at one of the rock slides that is now blocking the siding at Belden. The rocks have been lying along the tracks for so long, plants are starting to grow up through the rocks! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105346 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Belden Red Cliff, CO 2433 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific This impressive bridge carries U.S. 24 high above the Eagle River and the tracks. It is one of only two steel arch bridges in the state of Colorado. It was built in 1939 and 1940 and opened for traffic in 1941. $3.6 million was put into repairing the bridge in 2004. It has been entered in to the National Register of Historic Places, so very few changes were made to the look of the bridge. The lower bridge leads to the small town of Red Cliff, CO. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105347 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Belden Eagle County, CO 2327 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific One of the most interesting features of the siding of Belden is that the main and the siding run on opposite sides of the canyon from one another! There was not enough room on either side of the canyon for two tracks, so Rio Grande just built tracks on both sides of the canyon. As you can see here, the siding is in very rough shape. Multiple rock slides have come down on the rails, completely blocking the siding. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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