Photo ID: 107472 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 1191 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific A look up the hillside from where this huge boulder came from. Must have been a terrifying thing to witness in person! You can see the ties and rails of the mainline underneath part of the rock. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107473 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 1167 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific When this boulder came crashing down on the mainline near east Minturn, the north-most rail was squished by the rock. Both the rail and many of the tie plates were ripped right out of their ties. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107474 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 1238 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific Despite how indestructible rail seems when you are standing next to it or touching it, Mother Nature reminds us just how insignificant something like iron rail really is! A huge boulder that landed on the mainline here did not directly touch the siding. But the shifting dirt away from the rock push the siding past its breaking point. Both rails were snapped in half like wood matchsticks! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107475 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 1261 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific The welded rail of the mainline of Tennessee Pass lies pinned and broken underneath a boulder that came tumbling down from the hillside near east Minturn. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107476 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 6, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Minturn Minturn, CO 1243 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Rio Grande, Union Pacific When a multi-ton boulder came crashing down on the mainline on Tennessee Pass at Minturn, it created a mini crater in places. One such place was right in the middle of part of the mainline. It made it easy to get this shot at the railhead eye level, looking east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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