Union Pacific’s Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight MNYRO climbs over the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon just east of Plainview, Colorado, on February 2, 2014. Four GE AC4400CWs on the point o... (more)

Union Pacific and Electro-Motive Division tested EMD’s SD90MAC-Hs in 1998 on a rare movement of coal loads going up the 2-percent grade from Denver toward the Moffat Tunnel. Union Pacific Nos. 8... (more)

Electro-Motive Division, along with Union Pacific, did some high-altitude testing of EMD’s SD90MAC-Hs at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, in February 1998. Here, UP Nos. 8503, 8502 and 8505, alo... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6750 pops into daylight out of the west portal of Tunnel 8 between Plainview and Crescent, Colorado, on June 6, 2013.

Onboard the westbound 'California Zephyr', front range of the Colorado Rockies, Plainview, CO, Amtrak P42DC #70 on the point. For more pics & videos from my collection see my website at http://... (more)

With the last of the sun just about to set behind the Front Range mountains, the eastbound Rio Grande Ski Train bursts out of Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on March 22, 2002.

After climbing the 2% grade through Coal Creek Canyon, the MNYRO 27 (North Yard, CO to Roper Yard, UT Manifest) exits Tunnel #1 just south of Plainview. The train still has 29 more tunnels before ... (more)

Three not so good looking AC4400CW's lead the North Yard (Denver), CO to Roper Yard (Salt Lake City), UT Manifest after exiting tunnel #1 just south of Plainview, CO.

The fill that washed out
Thick fog is lifting off of the Flatirons west of Plainview, Colorado, as Amtrak’s No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs the Front Range of the Rockies on the ... (more)

UP's Missouri Kansas Texas "The Katy" Heritage unit #1988 is on the point of the Roper Yard (Salt Lake City), UT to North Yard (Denver), CO Manifest. The train can be seen easing down the grade at... (more)

The American Orient Express luxury cruise train heads westbound at Coal Creek Canyon and is about to enter Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on September 14, 2000. Soon, the streamlined train ... (more)

The sun is about to set behind me on the front range of the Rocky Mountains as Amtrak No. 6, the California Zephyr catches some of the last rays at Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado on July 1, ... (more)

A Union Pacific Public Service coal train (PSCX) exits Tunnel 3 west of Plainview, Colorado, after an early winter snow on November 23, 1999.

Union Pacific tested EMD’s SD90MAC-Hs in 1998 on a rare movement of coal loads going up the 2-percent grade from Denver toward the Moffat Tunnel. About a half a train of loaded coal hoppers, pro... (more)

From high above Coal Creek Canyon, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train that loaded on the Utah Railway, descends out of Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on July 5, 2003. The train is cr... (more)