Brand New BNSF 1081 leads a very early trackage rights train west over the Moffat Road. It is this photographers opinion that this was BNSFs best paint scheme.... Note the following two locomoti... (more)

Climbing through the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon on the approach to Tunnel 1 during the final snow of the 2015-2016 winter

The Circus train makes an appearance on the Moffat Tunnel line, seen here heading Westbound around the Big Ten Curve

A very colorful Herzog ballast train rolls east on UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub. These ballast cars are new and are painted white with red ends. The result is one of the most unique trains I've ever sho... (more)

This past weekend Colorado got a doozie of a spring snowstorm. Denver only saw a few inches of accumulation due to melting, but just a few miles outside of town as the tracks enter the foothills n... (more)

On a blustery April 4, 1966, F7A 5734 and a companion shove hard at Simms Street in Arvada, boosting a freight toward the distant mountains. In about 43 miles, at the Moffat Tunnel’s East Portal... (more)

After Philip Anschutz acquired the D&RGW and the SP, one of his first missions was to lay fiber optic cable along the D&RGW right of way from Denver to Salt Lake City. With an SD-40-2T from each... (more)

A Union Pacific welder cuts the north rail during a grade crossing replacement at 72nd Avenue on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision in Arvada, Colorado, on October 25, 2003.

The interesting consist of CSXT 3052, CREX 1408 and CSXT 702 pass by a herd of Elk as they head West on BNSF's Denver to Provo train.

It's a gorgeous afternoon west of Denver as BNSF's eastbound Provo, Utah to Denver, Colorado manifest rolls down the 2-percent grade as they approach Leyden in Arvada, Colorado on February 13, 201... (more)

BNSF's Denver to Provo manifest broke down due to one of its engines going "belly up". The rescue engine sent out of Denver happened to be the Norfolk & Western 8083 and it was even plac... (more)

A pair of foreign tourists draws a crowd! Visiting Kansas City Southern SD70ACe's 4187 and 4052 head West on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel line out of Denver as a trio of on lookers snap some pict... (more)

Not sure which unit was having issues on CZ #5, but UP 7085 leads Amtrak units 135 and 96 into Coal Creek Canyon on a frosty December morning. Visible in the background is Table Mountain in G... (more)

Morning haze has settled over downtown Denver, roughly 17 miles in the distance (as the crow flies), as Amtrak units 204 & 130 lead the California Zephyr into Coal Creek Canyon.

Three Rio Grande GP40-2s on Union Pacific’s West local are heading back to Denver’s North Yard light power and pass a Colorado Operation Lifesaver display at Simms Street grade crossing in Arv... (more)