Tight curves—short tunnel—long locomotive
Having just negotiated one of the sharpest curves on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision at 12 degrees, a westbound Union Pacific (Bill Wimmer) p... (more)

With the warm June sun almost directly overhead, I decided 'directly overhead' was a pretty good spot to shoot this westbound UP manifest. In the lead was SP 335, one of the few remaining un-patch... (more)

Two D&RGW GP40-2s have the ski train in tow westward for the climb over to Winter Park on Jan. 5, 1980. Because of tree growth, this photo scene near Pinecliffe, Colo. is no longer possible.

Union Pacific No. 7225 leads a coal train through Tunnel 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on February 16, 2008.

In a wet, spring snowstorm, a Union Pacific coal empty curves past the east switch at Cliff on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Southern Pacific AC4400CW No. 252 leads the train through the snowf... (more)

Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5400 leads a Union Pacific DVROM freight westbound through Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the morning of April 12, 1999. The 5400 was one of the few... (more)

Amtrak exits tunnel 26 deep inside South Boulder canyon. This was the site of a horrible wreck that occurred in 1991 that took the lives of two crewman. A memorial is at the tunnel. The plaque c... (more)

CNW8801 drops down the Moffat Road thru Tunnel 29.

A view looking straight down over the edge of the cliff at Pinecliffe, CO., of Zephyr #5 heading west over South Bolder Creek.

The so-called “Bill Gates Special,” a chartered Wisconsin and Southern passenger train is westbound and peeks around the corner near the site of Tunnel 28 east of Cliff, Colorado, on September... (more)

A Southern Pacific AC4400CW leads a Union Pacific coal empty through Cliff, Colorado on February 17, 2001. The train is approaching the town of Pinecliffe on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

The DPU on this coal empty idles in the siding at Cliff waiting for a fresh crew from Denver to take the train West to Bond.

Looking like a well-detailed scene from an ambitious model railroad, a pair of GP-60s skirts South Boulder Creek below my precarious vantage point. The two loaded coal hoppers were bad ordered and... (more)

Union Pacific’s MRONY freight heads east out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on a sparkling April 23, 2001, just moments after the clouds dispersed and the sun lit up the scene.

Making its way westward, an AC6044CW and 5 more GEs lead empty coal hoppers from the Public Service Company (Xcel Energy) in Denver, CO to Energy Mine, WY just west of Pinecliffe, CO.