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Tunnel 18: Making Double-Stack SPACE Posted by Milepost 154 at 10:26 AM 
A clever solution. Has the UP stopped using the Feather River route?

March 6, 2010 at 7:16 PM Milepost 154 said...

WSF: apparently not; however, the UP employees in Portola are very concerned. They're thinking they might be on a very short list of endangered species.

UP won't get rid of the Feather River route or abandon it; both routes have their weather and environmental problems. If one is down or closed, UP has the other for double-stack traffic.


March 6, 2010 at 10:50 PM 
That makes sense. In the days before the UP bought the D&RG, the UP would run freight via the Moffat Tunnel to Salt Lake when their tracks in Wyoming were closed by blizzards.

March 7, 2010 at 5:25 PM Bloviating Zeppelin said...

Man, I wish I could have photographed Moffat Tunnel in its heyday!


March 7, 2010 at 11:43 PM 
My late father was the Section Foreman for the Moffat Tunnel in the early 1950's. We lived at East Portal. The town had fewer than 40 residents and zero amenities other than great fishing. Bleak place in the winters.

Thanks to 9/11, you can't get near the tunnel but for years you could wander at will. Next to the Moffat tunnel is water tunnel that brings water from the Western Slope into the Denver water system.

In Western Colorado, goddamndenverwaterboard is one word.

March 8, 2010 at 9:08 PM 
hi they have it wrong on this former Western Pacific territory (UP bought WP back in 1983). i was working for wp in the early 70s around 1973 at the end of wp before up took over. it was 1973 not 1983.

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