Tunnel District A very heavy westbound manifest for Grand Junction, Colorado crawls thru the most challenging portion of the Moffat Road. There is no place else on the Moffat Road that ch... (more)

Seasons mingle at Crescent after the first snows in the high country.

The rear portion of a Union Pacific coal train drops down the two percent grade through South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado, on March 30, 2002. The rear DPU’s are approaching the site of old T... (more)

Heritage Amtrak 184 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the pines at Crescent, Colorado.

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

Chicago & North Western Heritage 1995 with a manifest is moving through Crescent among ground blizzards on a very windy clearing day from an overnight Spring mountain snow. Shot on my Inspire 2 la... (more)

Fresh heavy snow flocks the entire region to the Great Divide on this early Winter day. Eastbound MGJNY with #7082 on the point heavy in lumber and building supplies for Denver from the Pacific ... (more)

BNSF politely rolls around the curve at Crescent, CO deep in the blue hour in a Spring snow storm.

Spirit In the Sky

The Spirit of Union Pacific Veterans locomotive number #1943 leads a retirement special through the frost and freezing fog just idealistically in harmony ... (more)

Westbound on the former Rio Grande route through the Moffat Tunnel, Amtrak’s California Zephyr rumbles through Crescent, Colorado, on a cold January 5, 2005.

Tunnel District Westbound BNSF Denver-Provo manifest climbs the 2% grade around South Draw. Across the drainage on the west flank of Eldorado Mountain the rear DPU shoves into Tunnel 15. ... (more)

Five GE AC4400CW locomotives, a quartet still in Southern Pacific colors, lead Union Pacific’s MDVRO (Denver to Roper Yard in Salt Lake City) manifest freight out of Tunnel 16 as the train appro... (more)

Due to a 14 hour delay in Utah, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr descends through the curve at Crescent, CO in the early morning hours of June 8th, 2020 rather than the intended early evening ... (more)

The California Zephyr lead by AMTK 176 was nearly 14 hours late yesterday due to a rock slide in Utah, allowing a rare sunlight shot of an eastbound Genesis at Crescent, Colorado.

From the large rock east of Crescent looking west towards the Great Divide still wrapped in the remnants of the previous nights Spring snow storm an eastbound Union Pacific manifest is making its ... (more)