UP 8243 (ES44AC) leads 5 other mates and a long freight through Coal Creek Canyon and will soon climb the grade to Tunnel 1 seen in the upper left.

Heavy snow is covering Colorado’s front range mountains on April 23, 1999, as a westbound Union Pacific coal train curves past the former site of Tunnel 28 just east of Cliff siding at Pinecliif... (more)

The Great Divide
The first warm glow of a January sunrise under the Great Divide in full Alpenglow softly illuminate a venerable Warbonnet warrior at East Portal, CO

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)

A Rio Grande coal train snakes through the multiple curves leaving the east switch at Azure, Colorado, entering Gore Canyon along the Colorado River. A trio of EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors lead the e... (more)

Finding Light in the Canyon
A rarity in the winter, worth the walk. Here number 5 rolls at track speed into the morning January sun in and out of the deep shadows of the canyons wes... (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)

A Union Pacific coal load, led by Kansas City Southern GE ES44AC No. 4891, departs Azure, Colorado, during some of the last light of day on November 15, 2021. The eastbound train is following the... (more)

UP6220 West A manifest turns into the morning sun at Tunnel 1 on the Moffat Road. This scene is changing forever, as bulldozers are now cutting new roads and knocking down tress. Soon 90+... (more)

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)

The California Zephyr is frames with Evergreens on top of Blue Mountain, Colorado.

On December 14th the California Zephyr left Denver's Union Station only to be stopped at Rocky, Colorado due to sustained 70-100mph winds. The winds were the byproduct of a massive cold front tha... (more)

The snow is falling and the wind is blowing as the California Zephyr crosses the road at Plainview, Colorado.

A westbound BNSF manifest freight arcs over the curved fill exiting Tunnel 16 east of Crescent, Colorado, in the Tunnel District on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The 698-foot tunnel... (more)