Photo ID: 105343 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pando Eagle County, CO 2017 (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: 105341 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pando Eagle County, CO 1972 (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: 105340 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pando Eagle County, CO 1940 (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: 105339 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 282.5 Eagle County, CO 2016 (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: 105338 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 2209 (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: 105337 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 2348 (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: 105336 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2391 (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: 105335 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2663 (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: 105334 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 1968 (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: 105333 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2014 (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: 105332 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2142 (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: 105331 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Tunnel Lake County, CO 2378 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific, Rio Grande Anybody have a light? At 2,550 feet long, Tennessee Pass Tunnel is just shy of a half mile long. It has been said ice has built up in the center of the tunnel, covering the rail head and making passage by rail impossible and passage by foot extremely treacherous. I didn't proceed any further into the tunnel, so I am not sure if the rumor is true or not. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105330 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 2915 (1 Comment Posted) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific This is it! Until being shut down on August 23, 1997, this was highest point of any non-tourist rail line in the United States. We are standing at 10,220 feet above sea level. Eastbounds that had conquered the grueling 3% grade would use the siding to set out their helpers. The helpers would return to Minturn to await their next assignment while the eastbound continued on to Pueblo. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105329 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 2592 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific With the high amount of precipitation in the summer of 2015, Tennessee Creek has run over its banks a bit and formed a nice pond at the east switch of Tennessee Pass. With the fantastic reflection, I would have given just amount anything to have an eastbound come rolling through! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 105328 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 11, 2015 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East Tennessee Pass Lake County, CO 1982 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Tennessee Pass (UP) Union Pacific Here is the east switch of the 7,870 foto long siding of Tennessee Pass. Trains here were over 10,000 feet above sea level! Westbounds would be approaching the summit, climbing the relatively modest 1.7% grade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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