Photo ID: 111963 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific UP 7504 passes by the eclectic depot in Granby. You might note that half the depot platform is missing. Amtrak is in the process of rebuilding the platform. The new platform will be heated to reduce the risk of passengers slipping on snow and ice in the winter time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111962 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 89 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound UP manifest meets an eastbound UP coal load at Granby. Two UP trains meeting on the Moffat, with neither of them being an oil train, is pretty rare in 2025! The manifest is going to set out its fourth unit, adding it to the end of the coal train in the siding. The coal train does not have a crew at the moment. One of its current units failed and it needs to steal a unit from the manifest to make the climb up the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111961 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound UP coal load is tied down in the siding at Granby. It is waiting both a crew, and an additional unit from Denver. One of the units on the train failed, preventing the train from making the climb up the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111960 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Granby (7,325 ft) Granby, CO 58 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A single UP SD70ACe brings up a (somewhat rare) eastbound coal load. The train is currently tied down in the siding at Granby. Apparently, one of the units on the train failed as the train was moving through Fraser Canyon. The crew backed the train down between switches at Granby. It currently waits for an additional unit from Denver. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111959 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS062 (East Fraser) Fraser, CO 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Shooting between Winter Park and Tabernash can be a rough proposition as the tracks run (more or less) geographically north-south. That said, I was quite happy with this shot of UP's North Yard to Grand Junction manifest, about to knock down a clear (green) signal at East Fraser. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111958 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tabernash (9,830 ft) Grand County, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak AMTK 7 and AMTK 23 lead the westbound Zephyr, running right on time as it heads west on the main at Tabernash. The Zephyr still runs exclusively with P42DCs. The new ALC Chargers require a fuel additive called DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) as they are Tier-4 compliant. Rumor has it that Amtrak has been unable to find a DEF provider for Denver. Denver is the refuel spot for the Zephyr between Chicago and Emeryville. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111957 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP DS065 (East Tabernash) Grand County, CO 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It's station stop in Fraser complete, the westbound California Zephyr passes underneath US-40 on a clear (green) signal at East Tabernash. Note the slopes of the Winter Park Resort. Around 400 of the skiers on those slopes took the morning Winter Park Express! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111956 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park to Fraser (MP 58 to MP 62) Winter Park, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The California Zephyr crosses over Grand Park Drive on a relatively new bridge. The bridge was built around 2019 to bypass the grade crossing (which still exists) in the distance. Railroads have annual quotas for grade crossing removals. This is one that UP has been able to remove. Residents of Winter Park were happy as they did not have to wait for long oil (or occasional coal trains) slowly climbing the hill to the Moffat Tunnel. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111955 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park to Fraser (MP 58 to MP 62) Winter Park, CO 56 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The westbound Zephyr crosses the former Kings Crossing Road grade crossing in Winter Park. Why former? There is a (relatively) new underpass that was constructed to bypass the grade crossing. However, not only has UP not bothered to remove the grade crossing, they haven't even disabled the crossing! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111954 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser (4,830 ft) Fraser, CO 64 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After dropping its passengers and backing east out of Fraser, the train is now moving west back into the siding at Fraser. The crew will cut the power away and run around the train, tacking it onto the east end so it is ready to head west this evening. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111953 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Fraser (4,830 ft) Fraser, CO 83 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After the handful of passengers that rode the train all the way to Fraser are now off the train, the conductor on the Winter Park Express is about to get back on to protect the shove of the train back east by the green signal at the east end of Fraser, visible in the distance. The train will then enter the siding at Fraser to wait for the day until it is time to return east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111952 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park to Fraser (MP 58 to MP 62) Winter Park, CO 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Winter Park Express approaches the grade crossing at Vasquez Road in the middle of residential Winter Park. The train has just two weeks left in what sounds like it has been a very successful season. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111951 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park to Fraser (MP 58 to MP 62) Winter Park, CO 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak After most of the passengers have disembarked at the Winter Park ski resort, the Winter Park Express continues west to Fraser with a handful of passengers. You can see the top of the ski resort in the distance, and some more clouds are starting to clear out. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111950 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 76 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It is 9 o'clock in the morning and the Winter Park Express is unloading its passengers. The train apparently has every seat filled! Great news for the future likelihood of the continuation of the operation. Many skiers are gathering, getting ready to get on a lift and start their day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111949 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, March 16, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Winter Park Platform (MP 56.4) Winter Park, CO 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Winter Park Express faces a green signal at the east end of Winter Park. However, the train is currently stopped as it is unloading its passengers. In the distance, you can see a few runs at Mary Jane, the more advanced runs at Winter Park. The two prominent runs in the upper right are both blue/black runs. The one to the left is call Hughes, the one to the right is called Little Pierre. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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