Exiting Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, is eastbound Union Pacific freight RODVM (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to Denver Manifest) on October 22, 1997. Rio Grande’s first EMD SD40T-2 ... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe westbound manifest MDENRRB (Denver to Riverbank, California, freight) climbs the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon east of Plainview, Colorado, on Janu... (more)

A 9 car Passenger special heads West at the East switch at Plain. This train was originally planned to head to Helper, UT but due to a rock slide in Gore Canyon, the train turned on the wye at Tab... (more)

Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, drops downgrade out of Tunnel 1 and crosses the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon east of Plain, Colorado, on the afternoon of April 30, 2014. The city of D... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr is led by “Phase I Heritage” GE P42DC No. 156 just east of Plain, Colorado, on the morning of March 30, 2014.

Climbing the horse shoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon east of Plainview, Colorado, is a westbound Union Pacific CSUX coal empty on October 11, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, incl... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train of March 2, 2002, has some “heritage” leading as it approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado. Union Pacific EMD GP60 No. 1900, the former Rio Grande No. 3154, t... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs through the curves on the approach to Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on March 30, 2014. On the rear are two private cars; the Puget Sound and Sie... (more)

Running about an hour and a half late, Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, curves toward Tunnel 1 east of Plainview on a warm spring morning in Colorado on March 30, 2014.

Southern Pacific EMD SD45-2R No. 6830 leads a short work train into Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on March 21, 1997. Much of the train is made up of Rio Grande flatcars loaded with ma... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs the front range of the Rocky Mountains just west of Plainview, Colorado, on February 28, 2011. Passing through the Flatirons, the silvery train is exiti... (more)

With dynamic brakes humming, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train exits 174-foot Tunnel 4 west of Plainview, Colorado, on February 28, 2011. One of the massive Flatiron rock formations towers abo... (more)

Westbound Union Pacific manifest freight MNYRO (Denver’s North Yard to Salt Lake City’s Roper Yard manifest) curves into Tunnel 1 on June 13, 2011. The middle portion of the freight is going o... (more)

A short, eastbound Union Pacific freight emerges from the east portal of Tunnel 10 between Plainview and Crescent, Colorado, on June 8, 2013.

After a fresh snowfall, Union Pacific’s Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight MNYRO climbs the two-percent grade over the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon just east of Plainview, Colorado, on Febr... (more)