The hydraulic, working side of Rio Grande spreader AX-41 is visible at the Highway 72 grade crossing at Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 21, 2003, during snowplow service. In this March 17-20 storm,... (more)

Rio Grande spreader AX-41 pauses at the Highway 72 grade crossing at Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 21, 2003, during snowplow service. Power for the spreader train was a fitting Rio Grande GP40-2 ... (more)

Rio Grande spreader AX-41 plows snow at the east end of Cliff siding at Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 21, 2003. They are removing deep snow up to the last car of a westbound coal empty that never... (more)

Rio Grande spreader AX-41 plows snow on the main line at Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 21, 2003. This major blizzard closed transportation through much of Colorado during the March 17-20 storm. D... (more)

Home rails
Union Pacific No. 1989, the Rio Grande heritage locomotive, looks right at home exiting Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, over former D&RGW territory on July 10, 2006.

It's 2015 and there's still Denver and Rio Grande Western searchlight signals still in use on the mainline. It's amazing these haven't been replaced yet. Anyways, Union Pacific SD70AH no. 8846 lea... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train crosses over an icy South Boulder Creek just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 2, 2006.

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, is about to thread 78-foot Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 2, 2006.

The DPU on BNSF's westbound QDVPVJ 07 (Denver - Provo trackage rights manifest) is about to duck into Tunnel no. 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colo., on Apr. 08, 2015.

Three BNSF GE's lead the Denver, Colo., to Provo, Utah trackage rights manifest up the grade through what was once Tunnel no. 28 just east of Pinecliffe, Colo., on Apr. 08, 2015.

At the top of the overlook near Pinecliffe, Colo., an eastbound loaded crude oil train from Wash, Utah to Midwest City, Okla., rounds the curve approaching the east end of the siding.

Rolling steel wheel...

The rear DPUs on BNSF's High Priority manifest from Denver to Provo, Utah push their 75 car train into Pinecliffe, Colorado.

Thank goodness for Amtrak! A remarkably beautiful day in the Colorado mountains was also a remarkably slow day on the Moffat Sub: The only movement between noon and 8pm was the eastbound Californi... (more)

The morning after a light snow dusted the Front Range mountains outside of Denver, this eastbound slowly emerges from the short Tunnel 29 on its descent toward Denver.