South Boulder Creek is frozen in the January cold, but the head-end crew of this eastbound is reasonably comfortable thanks to an EMD redesign that has made cab and hood on its new GP30 model snug... (more)

UP SD70AH 8948 leads EMDX 1502 to the Moffat Tunnel for high altitude testing on a sunny day in March, 2016.

BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest led by BNSF ES44C4 No. 8134 continues to climb the grade west through Rollinsville, Colorado on June 24, 2018.

The Ski Train aka Winter Park Express kicks up snow on a cold and blustery Rocky Mountain afternoon.

An eastbound mixed freight rolls through Rollinsville, CO. The crest of the Rockies loom in the distant background.

Rolling meet at Rollins
In the aftermath of a late high country snowstorm, Union Pacific MDVRO manifest freight rumbles westward on the main, meeting an eastbound BNSF helper set at Rol... (more)

On Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, a BNSF coil steel train grinds through Rollinsville, Colorado, late in the afternoon of January 20, 2003. Two more locomotives in DPU mode push on t... (more)

On April 22, 2001, a late season snowstorm has dumped a lot of white stuff in the high country of Colorado. Just after the storm let up, Union Pacific MDVRO does a little stormin’ itself as it r... (more)

It is a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in Colorado, somewhat rare during smoke and monsoon season. BNSF 8782 starts approximately 50 cars of manifest out of Rollins Siding. The train has just met Amt... (more)

An April snowstorm dumped over three feet of fresh wet snow up in Colorado's high country. Seen here, a westbound unit train consisting of all empty gondolas notches up after getting a light out o... (more)

Waiting in the clear at Rollinsville for the westbound California Zephyr to pass, F7A’s 5741 and 5744 are headed back to Denver on January 30, 1966, with Rio Grande’s wreck train after two day... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, runs around a westbound Union Pacific coal empty at Rollinsville, Colorado, on August 5, 2006. The concrete strips on the right are the foundation of... (more)

A mixture of sounds from EMD's 16-710 prime mover, along with the new 12-1010, and dynamics fills the air as a test train from Denver to Tabernash, Colorado makes its way up the 2-percent grade in... (more)

Not just an ordinary short freight limping along at Rollinsville, Rio Grande F7A 5724, two F7B units and a geep have been gathering up damaged cars at a derailment near Tolland, just east of the M... (more)

A sheer wall and natural rock portal frame Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6877 leading a westbound coal train out of Tunnel 30 deep in Rollins Canyon east of Rollinsville, Colorado, on March 1, 200... (more)