The Abominable Zephyr, lead by Amtrak #33 (P42DC) rounds the corner of Crescent under one of the heaviest blizzard to hit these mountains in years.

Amtrak’s California Zephyr heads westbound out of Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of May 23, 2001. In the background is the 340-foot high Gross Reservoir Dam.

In what was one of the last major snowfalls of the year in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, BNSF 7277 (ES44DC) leads an oil can train around the Crescent curve as it heads to Denver.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight curves into Crescent, Colorado, during a high-country springtime snowstorm on April 22, 2001. Lead BNSF C44-9W No. 4558 is an unfortunate ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal train emerges from the west portal of Tunnel 14 in South Draw in the Tunnel District east of Crescent, Colorado, on March 30, 2002.

A westbound Union Pacific manifest slowly thunders west up the 2% grade thru the gorgeous South Draw, deep in the Tunnel District of the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The heavy manifest has two Cana... (more)

BNSF 7277 (ES44DC) leads a long oil can train through the curve at Crescent, Colorado amid a huge blizzard that dropped nearly 2 feet of snow in the mountains in a short period of time. Howling w... (more)

The snow was coming down so fast that within minutes the cameras and photogs were covered with inches of wet miserably cold snow. However, we all agreed that it was worth the suffering to see fre... (more)

Colorado was walloped by a monster blizzard, with huge snow flakes and sub-freezing temperatures. The weather caused rocks to break loose and fall on the tracks, which held up the Zephyr until th... (more)

Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW leads a westbound Union Pacific coal empty out of Tunnel 18 just east of Crescent, Colorado, on February 17, 2001.

DRGW 5771 leads the Ski Train westbound at Crescent, CO, on Jan 14, 1984.

Snaking through a rock cut and past snow-covered evergreens, a westbound Union Pacific coal train led by three EMD SD9043MACs approaches Crescent on a very wet April 23, 1999. Merry Christmas ever... (more)

On June 23, 2001, a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train climbs the two-percent grade in the “Tunnel District” between Tunnels 16 and 17 in South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado. The tra... (more)

Rio Grande SD40T-2 5363 eastbound near Crescent, Colorado with the Gross Dam Reservoir in the distance.

Westbound Union Pacific light engines crosses the fill outside Tunnel 16 east of Crescent, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 17, 2019.