Photo ID: 107343 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs, CO 1351 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak Looking west toward the platform at Glenwood, we find passengers moving toward their assigned cars, ready to board the Zephyr and depart of destinations east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107342 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs, CO 1531 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak If you are ever traveling on the California Zephyr (or any long distance Amtrak train), many of the larger (or more popular) stations allow you to check your bags. Any checked bags will get to ride in the baggage car, located directly behind the engines. Here, an Amtrak crew works to load checked bags for passengers leaving Glenwood Springs on the Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107341 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs, CO 1525 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak A shot for the ages! For decades, passenger trains have been rolling through the siding at Glenwood, up to and stopping at the Glenwood Springs depot. A process that thankfully is still repeated daily with the California Zephyr. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107340 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Chacra Garfield County, CO 1491 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak Just east of the siding of Chacra, the eastbound California Zephyr crosses over the Colorado River to move from the north side of the river to the south side. It will remain on the south side of the river until it east of Dotsero. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107339 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Dos Garfield County, CO 1688 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak A late winter storm starts to moves in from the west as the Zephyr clips along at 79 MPH. The train is halfway between Dos and Lacy at this point. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107338 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 4, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Dos Garfield County, CO 1804 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr is on the roll at track speed in the snow to the east of Dos, making its way toward its next station stop in Glenwood. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107337 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, March 3, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Eagle County, CO 1913 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak The eastbound Zephyr rolls along the Colorado River just west of Bond. The train is getting close to the east end of the Glenwood Springs Sub and will soon move over to the Moffat Tunnel Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106179 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Range Eagle County, CO 1589 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Union Pacific After a fantastic chase from Winter Park, this would be the last shot of this manager's special for the day. The light was already quickly fading, but the road bridge over the Colorado River (directly behind the photographer) was closed! Crews are working on widening the bridge to two lanes and had the single lane bridge blocked. We would wait another 20 minutes after the train passed before the bridge opened up. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106178 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Bond Eagle County, CO 2151 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Union Pacific With a fresh crew that got on the train at Bond, this manager's special follows the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff. The pair of brand new ET44AHs look mighty fine on the point of the train. I'm not sure why several UP vice presidents were taking a tour of the Moffat...although I'd like to think it is preparation for lowering the floor in the Moffat Tunnel so they can run double stacks! (Yeah, right...and Tennessee Pass will open right after that!) Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105749 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grizzly Garfield County, CO 1544 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Union Pacific A C44-9W (of Espee heritage...formerly SP 8120) and an SD40N (recently rebuilt by UP from an SD40-2) head east down the main at Grizzly in a snow-filled Glenwood Canyon. The train is headed for Gypsum (on the far west end of Tennessee Pass) where it will switch out American Gypsum, a wallboard plant. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105748 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grizzly Garfield County, CO 1499 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Union Pacific After spending about three hours switching in the yard in Glenwood Springs, UP's Minturn Local is now headed east toward Tennessee Pass. Now that statement sounds far more exciting that it actually is. While most of Tennessee Pass is "railbanked" and out of service, about seven miles of the west end is still active. The stretch between Dotsero and Gypsum is still active, which is to say it sees one train a week: The Minturn Local. American Gypsum is a wallboard manufacturer located in Gypsum and they ship by rail. A (far less common than its AC brothers) C44-9W leads the local on the main at Grizzly. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105747 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs, CO 1916 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak Having just stopped at the station in Glenwood Springs, the crew has the door on the (new) baggage car open and is ready to load (and, if necessary, unload) checked bags for passengers. The stop in Glenwood is actually quite efficient, and the train will start rolling within ten minutes or so. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105746 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Glenwood Springs Glenwood Springs, CO 1702 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Amtrak It is just after noon and the eastbound Zephyr is running right on time as it pulls up to the station in Glenwood Springs. There are a lot of people on the platform, most of whom are probably waiting to ride back to Denver. A lot of the business on the Zephyr comes between Denver and Glenwood Springs! And with today being MLK Day, there are likely even more people headed home after the three day weekend. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105745 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Shoshone Garfield County, CO 1700 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Union Pacific A single DPU brings up the tail end of an eastbound MRONYX (Manifest, Roper, UT to North Yard, CO, Extra) at Shoshone in Glenwood Canyon. At 3,960 feet, the siding of Shoshone is rarely used. The east end of Shoshone is separated by the west end of Allen by only a few hundred feet (and a tunnel). Rio Grande considered connecting Allen and Shoshone to create a stretch of two main tracks, but the expense of removing the tunnel proved to be too much to make it worth it. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105744 Date Shot Photo By Monday, January 18, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP RG351 (West Shoshone) Garfield County, CO 1711 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Glenwood Springs (UP) Union Pacific This is a spot in Glenwood Canyon that I have never shot before. This eastbound manifest is at the west switch of Shoshone along the Colorado River. Prior to 1992, drivers in Glenwood Canyon passed this location on the two lane I-70. Once the expansion of I-70 to four lanes was completed (through the mountain behind the tracks, in this case), this area became a rest stop and access to the Glenwood Canyon trailhead. Because it is on the north side of the mountain, very little sunlight hits here, meaning the Colorado River is frozen over! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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