I was on my way to Phippsburg and Craig, CO to work vacation vacancies as a D&RGW agent/operator and stopped at Orestod, CO. A coal train down from Phippsburg joins the mainline along the banks of... (more)

A Union Pacific Engineering special heads East after changing crews at Bond. The track in the background heading up the hill is the Craig Branch.

UP's daily manifest freight between Roper Yard in Salt Lake City and Denver's North Yard rolls by the switch to the Craig Branch at Orestod, CO on a bitterly cold but clear day.