Soft Light at Tunnel 1
Tunnel 1 on an overcast morning.

Under the Mickey Mouse Wall
Tunnel 3 and 4 play host to a coal bucket in home road colors shortly after sunrise.

UP 8243 (ES44AC) has climbed the 2% grade up to Tunnel 1 at Plainview while the rest of the train follows down in Coal Creek Canyon.

Five Rio Grande F7s lead by 5644, exits Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado and gets ready to drop down into Coal Creek Canyon in May 1965. Photo by J.B. Calvert, from my slide collection.

The California Zephyr climbs up the 2% grade towards Tunnel 1 in the snow.

Eastbound Union Pacific freight RODVM (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to Denver Manifest) heads downgrade out of Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on October 22, 1997. Rio Grande’s first ... (more)

The California Zephyr runs through light snow at Plainview, Colorado. There has not been much snow at all along the Colorado Front Range this winter.

A Union Pacific coal train threads through the Flat Irons rock formations exiting Tunnel 3 approaching Plainview, Colorado, on November 23, 1999. The Public Service of Colorado (PSCX) train is led... (more)

Rio Grande train 187, off the Burlington Northern in Denver, has a couple of Cascade green machines in the consist on the morning of July 8, 1989, as the westbound freight climbs toward Tunnel 1 a... (more)

The California Zephyr heads up the 2% grade towards Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado.

Due to heavy snows in California the California Zephyr #6 was over 14 hours late getting into Denver, which afforded the rare opportunity to catch the train running through Tunnel 2 during morning... (more)

A Union Pacific manifest freight train rolls downgrade out of Plain siding at Plainview, Colorado, on September 25, 1997. It may be a UP train, but there isn’t an Armour yellow locomotive to be ... (more)

A crew member of UP 7185 (AC4400CW) finishes the roll-by inspection of the California Zephyr and will soon continue down the Moffat Tunnel Sub towards Denver, Colorado.

Amtrak engine 152 (P42DC) rounds the corner at Plainview, Colorado as it climbs towards Tunnel 1.

BNSF 5059 (Dash9) leads another Heritage II and a Heritage I painted motor down the hill from Tunnel #1.