Photo ID: 108305 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS043 (West Rollins) Rollinsville, CO 735 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This coal load in broken in two at the west end of Rollins. A car developed a problem and needed to be set out in the house track. The defective car was located at this spot in the train. The train was broken in two so the head end power could retrieve the bad car. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108306 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS043 (West Rollins) Rollinsville, CO 739 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific 20 cars and a DPU hang west of the west switch of Rollins. The bottom of one of these bathtub gondolas broken open and spilled a bunch of coal. In fact, you can see some of the coal along the ballast near the right of the shot. That happened at 5:30am! About 11 hours later, a crew is still working to get the train back together. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108307 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS043 (West Rollins) Rollinsville, CO 755 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 8403, an SD70ACe, is bringing up the rear of this (temporarily broken) coal load at Rollins. When the crew is ready to put the train back together, the engineer will get in this DPU and bring the 20 cars of the train up to the front 3/4 of the train, already between switches on the main. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108308 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 781 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A UP crew member inspects a massive tear in the bottom of a bathtub gondola as the engineer very slowly creeps toward the house track at Rollins. You can see a small pile of coal near the second (broken) gondola. The crew is working to get the car in to the house track. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108309 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 750 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific After multiple hours of work, this UP crew finally has this broken bathtub gondola in the house track at Rollins. Due to a defect, the crew had to move at about 5 MPH, frequently stopping and inspecting, from the west end of Rollins all the way to the house track. The third crew for this track has just arrived and will be getting on to finishing getting the train back together. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108310 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 749 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific That is really not good! Note how a significant portion of the bottom of this bathtub gondola is missing? I have no clue how this happened, but it obviously caused a lot of problems on the Moffat. The westbound Zephyr was delayed over eight hours in Denver. The car is now in the house track at Rollins. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108311 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 758 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Notice anything unusual about this shot? Such as the fact that you can see right through the gondola to the rail head and ties below!? The bottom of the gondola ripped apart and away from the car somehow, dumping a significant portion of the cars coal in the process. Much of the coal still remains, teetering in the car. The car is in the house track at Rollins where it will wait until UP figures out what to do with it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108312 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (5,750 ft) Gilpin County, CO 789 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr sits idle on the mainline at East Portal two minutes after its scheduled arrival time in Denver. The train has been stuck here for nearly two hours due to a coal train that broke down at Rollins 13 hours earlier. It took a long time to get the coal train back together. That has finally happened, however, and the Zephyr is now waiting for its counterpart, making its way west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108313 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (5,750 ft) Gilpin County, CO 838 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Here is a shot that you don't come across too often! The Zephyrs are meeting at East Portal, just a mile or so east of the Moffat Tunnel. Typically, the Zephyrs meet about 100 miles to the west. However, a broken UP coal train delayed the westbound Zephyr by about 9 hours and the eastbound Zephyr by about 2 hours. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108314 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Portal (5,750 ft) Gilpin County, CO 778 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr rolls slowly through the siding at East Portal (to the left) as the eastbound Zephyr sits waiting on the main (to the right). The westbound Zephyr will stop very briefly to hand something off to the conductor on the eastbound Zephyr. Meanwhile, DS-78 is working on getting a clear signal for the Zephyr east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108315 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Tolland Gilpin County, CO 800 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The sun is getting low and is getting somewhat obscured by clouds, casting some crazy shadows as the Zephyr rolls east across South Boulder Creek just east of Tolland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108316 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Rollins (8,320 ft) Rollinsville, CO 760 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound coal train has now been at Rollins for close to 14 hours. That was due to a defective gondola, which has been set out in the house track to the left. The dispatcher let the eastbound Zephyr and BNSF's Provo-Denver around the coal load through the siding before also getting the coal load a clear signal to finally proceed east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108317 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cliff (6,900 ft) Gilpin County, CO 797 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF About halfway through Cliff on the main track, this BNSF Provo-Denver is rolling on clear signals alongside South Boulder Creek amidst a rapidly setting July sun. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108318 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS012 (East Leyden) Arvada, CO 814 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Seconds before the sun completely dips behind the Rockies to the west, the eastbound Zephyr knocks down an Advanced Approach (flashing yellow) signal at the east end of Leyden. After a two hour delay at East Portal, the crew is doing what they can to make up time and get passenger in to Denver and points east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.