Leaning Into it at Rocky

Nearly new UP SD70ACe T4 leads empty coal destined for W. Elk from Cora, IL. Added at the last moment this afternoon at C&S Junction it was a last ... (more)

Flags and New Car Smell

Nearly new UP SD70ACe T4 leads empty coal destined for W. Elk from Cora, IL. Added at the last moment this afternoon at C&S Junction it was a last m... (more)

Clearing Snow System

Tuesday morning December 29th, 2020 Amtrak P42DC number 161 leads the California Zephyr train number 5 seen here climbing to tunnel 1 on the Moffat Sub... (more)

Moffat Sand A unit sand train climbs the Big 10 on the Moffat Road. The sand is headed for the oil and gas fields of Western Colorado and Central Utah. The vast basin between the Main Ran... (more)

Snow Bound at Coal Creek

Spring snow grips the Moffat Road at tunnel 1 and Coal Creek, CO. Amtrak #5 the California Zephyr whisks up a blizzard before rolling into the Tunnel... (more)

A nearly 6 hour late late westbound Amtrak California Sephyr leaves Denver behind, and begins its assault on the front range.

"Through the Rockies, not around them." That was the mantra of the old Denver & Rio Grande Western--and nowhere was it more appropriate than climbing the front range of the Rockies. This was David... (more)

After a minor ice/snow storm coated everything nicely with winter, Amtrak's California Zephyr heads west over Blue Mountain Drive west of Clay, Colorado, on February 8, 2001.

A westbound Union Pacific coal train leaves Rocky and is about to enter Big 10 Curve. Up front are seven AC4400CWs, led by former C&NW 8828, now UP No. 6730.

The head end of a westbound Union Pacific coal train is at the east switch of Clay, while the rear of the train still trails below on the 2 percent grade. I’m encircled by the train in the middle ... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr is westbound, but for a moment on the approach to Big 10 Curve, is pointed east, as the train travels between Rocky and Clay on the morning of May 31, 2012. Cla... (more)

UP's freight MRONY curves through Pinecliffe (Cliff siding on the railroad) on a snowy spring day in the Colorado Rockies.

Amtrak’s “Heritage III” No. 145 is on the point of the eastbound California Zephyr on the afternoon of June 22, 2011. Having just left Plain and passed through Tunnel 1, the train is about to cros... (more)

A westbound UP coal empty passes through Tolland, Colorado, on the climb to the Moffat Tunnel, amid the color of autumn.

Still looking like the Southern Pacific, a Union Pacific coal train descends the loop at Coal Creek Canyon west of Clay, Colorado.The lead AC4400CWs are passing the detector at mile 22.6, while th... (more)