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Dynamic brakes howling

The skies are darkening with the threat of more snow at East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel. Two GP40s that pushed this eastbound Rio Grande coal train from Tabernash to Winter Park are staying with the train all the way to Denver to provide some dynamic baking down the two-percent grade from the Moffat Tunnel. A couple of skiers also head back to town, braving snow-rutted roads in a 1978 Ford Fairmont, after skiing the trails toward the Continental Divide. Action on the N scale Rio Grande Moffat Road…

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Uploaded on February 13, 2014
Taken on August 3, 2011