Climbing out of Leyden, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight on the afternoon of October 29, 1999.

Kansas City Southern 4765 (ES44AC) leads a coal train through Leyden, Colorado as it heads to Denver.

Daylight Savings Time
One more chance for some morning going on the Westbound Winter Park Express just after first light.

Winter Sunrise on Denver
Westbound just after first light Amtrak 1105 the WPE is leaning into it at Leyden just after 0730.

Sunrise over Denver
Winter Park Express rides the golden magic carpet to the promise land of powder and downhill slopes.

Climbing the two-percent ramp out Leyden, Colorado, under stormy skies is Union Pacific’s westbound MDVRO manifest freight on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, ... (more)

Amtrak engine 27 (P42DC) leads the Winter Park Express Ski Train from Denver as a golden sunrise greets the crew and passengers.

After running through 27 tunnels on the Moffat Line the Winter Park Express Ski Train runs through the canyon leading to Tolland, Colorado and will soon enter the 6.2-mile-long Moffat Tunnel.

A scare for Bambi. The Winter Park Express Ski Train gives some deer a scare as it runs in Coal Creek Canyon. A second after this shot was taken the deer exited stage right and thankfully avoide... (more)

Here is something you hope you never see. The car crossing the tracks stopped briefly at the crossing as the lights and bells started to activate, but then proceeded to speed under the falling cr... (more)

The steep ramp that is the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Line west of Denver, Colorado, can easily be seen in this view of an eastbound Union Pacific coal train dropping downgrade into Leyden, w... (more)

With brakes squealing and dynamic brakes humming, a heavy Union Pacific loaded coal train eases down the steep two percent grade into Leyden, Colorado, with a three locomotive set of mid-train DPU... (more)

The sun rises above downtown Denver in the distance, and glints off the side of the lead motors of an eastbound Union Pacific coal train rolling toward Leyden, Colorado, on January 26, 2007.

At sunrise on January 26, 2007, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade into Leyden, Colorado, leaving the front range mountains behind.

The Storms of the Rocky Flats
Storms are racing northeasterly away from the high plains at the base of the Flatiron Range revealing a characteristically vibrant storm light. Ha... (more)