The Great Divide at East Portal

A Winter storm is just clearing from the 14,000 foot peaks of the Great Divide. Just after 8 o-clock the daily BNSF Provo Lincoln manifest i... (more)

The Storms over Denver & Big Ten

Storms continue to leave heavy rain and hail over the suburbs of Denver and the High Plains. The evening sun brings out a rainbow and is ab... (more)

Rounding one of the tightest tangents on the Moffat Road over South Boulder Creek and some of the deepest canyons, Union Pacific #2567 leads an oil train past Pinecliffe. Shot on Mavic Pro 2.

AMTK 135 leads the California Zephyr down the hill from Tunnel #1 and will soon arrive in the City of Denver, Colorado, which is visible in the upper right.

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr, train #6, descends down the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies around Big Ten Curve as it nears Denver, CO. Here, this already late train will come to a st... (more)

Here we see the California Zephyr rounding Big Ten Curve. Big Ten is a series of long curved sections of track ('Little Ten' is 90 degrees and the largest, 'Big Ten', is 270 degrees) with a track ... (more)

The rear portion of a Union Pacific coal train drops down the two percent grade through South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado, on March 30, 2002. The rear DPU’s are approaching the site of old T... (more)

The California Zephyr has just come down the steep grade from Tunnel #1 (seen in the background) and is going through Coal Creek Canyon on its way to Denver's Union Station.

Low Ceiling Fog at Tunnel 7

Heavy rain the previous evening and part of the night with a cold front left a lot of moisture on the Flatirons. The resulting low ceiling fog and d... (more)

Stormy Plainview

Severe thunderstorms are moving northeasterly into Boulder County just in time for an opening for a sun filled storm light shot at Plainview, CO. Amtrak #6... (more)

The California Zephyr rounds the corner at Big Ten Curve as it drops down from the foothills and heads to Denver's Union Station.

Heritage Amtrak 184 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the pines at Crescent, Colorado.

Blue Looper on the Moffat
Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 712 leads an eastbound coal train at Coal Creek Canyon just west of Clay, Colorado, on May 24, 2000. Blue brake shoe... (more)

Tunnel #7, scarred, stained, and sans a concrete portal reveal its venerable steam era history in the morning sun along the Moffat Road. #9771 an EMD SD70MACe, another veteran in modern times hand... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)