The roar of GE locomotives echoes through the Rocky Mountains as UP 5931 leads a West Elk Mine coal empty up the grade towards Tunnel One in Coal Creek Canyon, CO on August 13th, 2019.
BNSF 5087 negotiates the horseshoe curve in Coal Creak Canyon as it eases down the 2% grade and continues it's descent into Denver. The rear DPU has just exited Tunnel 1 completing it's run throug... (more)
Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight works upgrade at Coal Creek Canyon west of Clay, Colorado, on April 21, 2002. The head-end power is already through Tunnel 1 in... (more)
With the sound of dynamic brakes whining, and the smell of brake shoes burning, a heavy Union Pacific coal load negotiates down the two percent grade of the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains at... (more)