Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr, train #6, descends down the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies around Big Ten Curve as it nears Denver, CO. Here, this already late train will come to a st... (more)

Here we see the California Zephyr rounding Big Ten Curve. Big Ten is a series of long curved sections of track ('Little Ten' is 90 degrees and the largest, 'Big Ten', is 270 degrees) with a track ... (more)

The rear portion of a Union Pacific coal train drops down the two percent grade through South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado, on March 30, 2002. The rear DPU’s are approaching the site of old T... (more)

The California Zephyr has just come down the steep grade from Tunnel #1 (seen in the background) and is going through Coal Creek Canyon on its way to Denver's Union Station.

Low Ceiling Fog at Tunnel 7

Heavy rain the previous evening and part of the night with a cold front left a lot of moisture on the Flatirons. The resulting low ceiling fog and d... (more)

Stormy Plainview

Severe thunderstorms are moving northeasterly into Boulder County just in time for an opening for a sun filled storm light shot at Plainview, CO. Amtrak #6... (more)

The California Zephyr rounds the corner at Big Ten Curve as it drops down from the foothills and heads to Denver's Union Station.

Heritage Amtrak 184 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the pines at Crescent, Colorado.

Blue Looper on the Moffat
Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 712 leads an eastbound coal train at Coal Creek Canyon just west of Clay, Colorado, on May 24, 2000. Blue brake shoe... (more)

Tunnel #7, scarred, stained, and sans a concrete portal reveal its venerable steam era history in the morning sun along the Moffat Road. #9771 an EMD SD70MACe, another veteran in modern times hand... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

Significant storms are leaving the region over the High Plains seen here from the majestic grandstands of the Great Plains near Plainview, CO. On this June day in 2019 near the solstice the last l... (more)

Heavy snow coated the entire Front Range including the Boulder Valley in the immediate distance and further east in this view through St Vrain and Longmont, CO. Amtrak is exiting tunnel 3 here in ... (more)

Chicago & North Western Heritage 1995 with a manifest is moving through Crescent among ground blizzards on a very windy clearing day from an overnight Spring mountain snow. Shot on my Inspire 2 la... (more)

Amtrak California Zephyr is moving through the cuts and valleys east of Pinecliffe, CO just past Tunnel 27 and into the day lighted Tunnel 28. Overcast skies help reveal all the detail in the vall... (more)