Only a couple weeks after the Moffat Tunnel Sub had reopened due to washouts, two coal trains meet at Tolland siding, just a few miles from the famous Moffat Tunnel and the continental divide.

Some of the season’s first snow highlights the Continental Divide in the background as an eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses Boulder Creek as it departs Tolland, Colorado, on October 22, 20... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train crosses South Boulder Creek on a wood trestle just east of Tolland, Colorado, on August 25, 2001.

With a nice coating of spring snow in the high country, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight heads east at Tolland, Colorado, on April 12, 2001. The colorful locomotive consist includes... (more)

Ansco’s eastbound Rio Grande Ski Train crosses South Boulder Creek east of Tolland, Colorado, on March 30, 2001.

Union Pacific MNYRO rumbles through Tolland, Colorado, during the peak of autumn color on October 2, 2008. The westbound freight has eight locomotives up front, with two EMD SD70Ms leading a GE A... (more)

The fall colors are nice and vibrant up in the high-country as Amtrak's westbound "California Zephyr" with AMTK P42DC No. 184 leading races through the village of Tolland, Colorado along... (more)

Autumn is arriving a little early this year in the high country of Colorado. Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr zips through Tolland amid the changing leaves on September 17, 2016.

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound Zephyr, cruises upgrade through a winter wonderland between Rollinsville and Tolland during a somewhat typical spring day in Colorado’s high country on April 20, 2003... (more)

Surrounded by the golden beauty of autumn aspens in the high country is Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr at Tolland, Colorado, on October 2, 2008.

As Union Pacific welders get ready to replace a rail on the main line at Tolland, Colorado, on October 3, 2008, westbound UP MDVRO rumbles by in the siding, with all the “bell and whistle” mak... (more)

Union Pacific’s MDVRO manifest freight rumbles westbound through Tolland, Colorado, during the time of year in the high country when the aspens turn brilliant gold, signaling another change in s... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr has just emerged from Moffat Tunnel and will begin its descent down the Front Range into Denver.

An eastbound UP coal train works its way through the Rocky Mountains on its way towards Denver

Sure, I might have been driving just a slight bit faster than prudent on the unplowed snow-covered dirt road toward the Moffat Tunnel's east portal, but with only a few trains per day I was determ... (more)