The Abominable Zephyr, lead by Amtrak #33 (P42DC) rounds the corner of Crescent under one of the heaviest blizzard to hit these mountains in years.

Amtrak’s California Zephyr heads westbound out of Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of May 23, 2001. In the background is the 340-foot high Gross Reservoir Dam.

On a gloomy May morning, BNSF 5536 leads the Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest through the curve at Blue Mountain Rd in Coal Creek Canyon, CO on May 11th, 2020.

The westbound MNYGJ rolls through the meadows out of tunnel 1 near Coal Creek Canyon and Plainview on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Delightful storm light from severe warned storms populate the h... (more)

The BNSF eastbound daily HPVODEN1-15A makes its appearance just in time. Repeat attempts for this shot with the right light and aspen trees in prime over the years finally worked out this past Fal... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs through the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon approaching Tunnel 1 between Clay and Plainview, Colorado, on February 21, 2000... (more)

In what was one of the last major snowfalls of the year in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, BNSF 7277 (ES44DC) leads an oil can train around the Crescent curve as it heads to Denver.

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train at mile 22.6 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on December 1, 2002. The trai... (more)

On a cold and windy morning along the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains, Union Pacific 6559 drags a westbound coal train through the red mountains near Burns, Colorado. Burns was named after th... (more)

AMTK 52 Leads the Zephyr out of the tunnel district of the Moffat Line and will soon run through Coal Creek Canyon, traverse Big Ten and Little Ten curves at Rocky, pass through Arvada and eventu... (more)

Amtrak #69 is on point as the California Zephyr drops down out of Tunnel #1 at Plainview and heads towards Coal Creek Canyon. It will then take another 45 minutes to get to Denver's downtown Unio... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight curves into Crescent, Colorado, during a high-country springtime snowstorm on April 22, 2001. Lead BNSF C44-9W No. 4558 is an unfortunate ... (more)

Morning Glory. The morning of March 9th, 2020 started early. I was over a week into my photography adventure across the Western United States. The previous day was a mammoth 18-hour day, wh... (more)

On the morning of March 23, 2002, the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train rolls through the curves exiting Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight works eastbound through Winter Park, Colorado, and is approaching the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel on February 16, 2002. Above the tr... (more)