Amtrak 154 shoots out of the east portal of Tunnel #1 along with the 'Big Game Train' engine (AMTK 157), and they will soon go through 28 more tunnels before reaching the 6 mile long Moffat Tunnel... (more)

Amtrak 154 emerges from the east portal of Tunnel #1 as it heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Cut Through the Flatirons

Exiting tunnel 3 on a vibrant winter morning BNSF 7009 is about to roll over the fill once called Lost Bogie Gulch west of tunnel 2 high out on the ... (more)

First Daylight on 1996

A fresh dusting of snow lines the track and touches the Flatirons minutes after sunrise just in time for Union Pacific’s glamorous Southern Pacific h... (more)

For a couple of years in the late ’90s, Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train leased Amtrak F40PHs for power, before purchasing three for the train in 2000. On December 27, 1997, Amtrak Nos. 388 and 29... (more)

Sunlights illuminates a westbound Union Pacific coal train as storms move east at Plainview, Colorado, on July 4, 2005.

In this view at Plainview is a BNSF trackage rights train with an eclectic merger consist climbing the Front Range on a summer afternoon.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train exits Tunnel 1 and descends the grade toward Coal Creek Canyon just east of Plainview, Colorado, on January 21, 2002.

The specially painted Amtrak #42 (Veterans paint scheme) leads the California Zephyr out of tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.

On the afternoon of August 5, 2000, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, and is approaching Tunnel 1 on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

Eight locomotives lead westbound Union Pacific MNYGJ (Denver’s North Yard to Grand Junction) manifest freight out of Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, on March 23, 2002.

Rio Grande GP30 3011 is descending through the horse shoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon on the way to Denver. 3011 is now a survivor at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs through the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon approaching Tunnel 1 between Clay and Plainview, Colorado, on February 21, 2000... (more)

Led by a pair of Rio Grande EMD GP60s, the Rio Grande Ski Train rolls eastbound through the cut at milepost 23 east of Plainview, Colorado, on June 17, 2000.

Amtrak #69 peaks around the corner as it exits Tunnel #1. The Denver skyline can be seen in the background under threatening skies, while the sun shines at Plainview, Colorado.