Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 846 leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight past the east switch of Clay siding climbing through Colorado’s Big 10 Curve on the afternoon of May 28... (more)

Spring snow is in full grip of the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on this early morning blue hour in April, 2020. This eastbound BNSF manifest is rolling through the horseshoe at Coal Creek, CO. Shot o... (more)

Emerging from a very characteristically high country winter days ground blizzard; BNSF #8052 is leading the Lincoln to Provo manifest through Tolland, CO.

Winter storm light fills Beyers Canyon west of Hot Sulpher Springs, CO. Shot on Mavic Pro 2 with heated battery.

The first thunderstorm complexes of the 2020 season rumble northeasterly over Boulder County while the last light of the day strikes a westbound oil train around the horseshoe at Coal Creek. Gett... (more)

UP 5908 works it’s manifest past Blue Mountain and through the Coal Creek tangents on a delightful bright morning. Fresh heavy snow fell over the previous 2 days and with such little traffic on ... (more)

The specially painted Amtrak #42 (Veterans paint scheme) leads the California Zephyr out of tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.

Amtrak number 5, the California Zephyr is on the fill west of Rollinsville, CO along South Boulder Creek among the peak color of Aspens.

BNSF handles a manifest around the tangent at Crescent, CO over a fresh foot of snow. Crescent is fabled by crews since the Rio Grande operated the Moffat Subdivision as the most beautiful view in... (more)

BNSF coal comes around Rainbow Cut at Plainview, CO on a perfectly lit snowy morning in the golden hour. Icicles still hang on the nose and the fresh snow is just being whisked off the railhead by... (more)

On the afternoon of August 5, 2000, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, and is approaching Tunnel 1 on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

On a crisp Memorial Day morning, the westbound Zephyr is on time just east of Cliff. The California-bound train is passing through the last tunnel in the Tunnel District (when heading west), tunne... (more)

Beautiful winter wonderland flock covers the entire valley at Pinecliffe, CO with 10” of new snow overnight. Amtrak’s early morning Winter Park Express is an ideal subject for the morning. Sil... (more)

Eight locomotives lead westbound Union Pacific MNYGJ (Denver’s North Yard to Grand Junction) manifest freight out of Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, on March 23, 2002.

A BNSF westbound slithers thru ex. DRGW's Tunnel district with a fairly short and light manifest. Leaving Tunnel 13 the train is entering the toughest portion of the westbound pull up the Moffat ... (more)