Crossing over Highway 72 and working up the grade towards Plainview.

Lingering haze from Montana wildfires has cast a red glow across the hills below the Flatirons as the Denver to Salt Lake City manifest begins its assault on the Rio Grande Tunnel District.

A westbound Union Pacific manifest climbs the twisting Big Ten Curves of the Moffat Road. Above the trains is Tunnel One and the Majestic Flatiron Rock Formations.... If you look hard you can fol... (more)

Once the Cheyenne Frontier Days special arrives in Cheyenne and its passengers detrain, the train needs to be wyed (turned around) in preparation for the return trip to Denver. The nearest why is ... (more)

It's not too often one can capture an entire freight train in one shot, but that is the case here at the famous Big Ten Curve along the former Rio Grande mainline through the Rockies. This elabor... (more)

A trio of Rio Grande engines head West with the Denver Ski Train approaching Tunnel #1.

Rio Grande 5571 and an (almost) matched set of F’s climb through Arvada west of Denver with the PFM, Pacific Fast Mail, for Salt Lake City and points west. Even with a pair of pushers lending th... (more)

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr loops around the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon before returning to the face of the Flatirons to climb before heading back into the rest of the Tunnel District.

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr climbs up to the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon before reversing to climb along the Flatirons above Denver/Boulder. Amtrak 145 leads ... this is now one of Amtrak... (more)

Veteran mountain climbers lead this westbound empty coal train towards Colorado's Continental Divide. Spring weather in the rockies is generally full of clear blue mornings.....

Amtrak's westbound Ski Train races west with AMTK P42DC no. 42, out of the greater Denver Metro Area west of Arvada, Colo., just after sunrise on Mar. 14. 2015.

The colorful consist of NS 9597, CREX 1428 and BNSF 1001 head East with BNSF's trackage rights train that is heading from Provo to Lincoln

Some sort of test is underway September 18, 1963, as two-thirds of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic roster, the 4001 and 4003, coupled to a dynamometer car and an unidentified geep, p... (more)

With three of his private cars on the rear chartered by happy groups, the Anschutz ski train glides into Arvada, Colo. headed for those skyscrapers of Denver on the old D&RGW on April 1, 1995.

The Anschutz Corporation’s ski train passes westbound through Arvada, Colo. during the sun’s low equinox on Jan. 6, 2007, just two years before owner Phillip Anschutyz would sell the train, in... (more)