The so-called “Bill Gates Special,” a chartered Wisconsin and Southern passenger train is westbound and peeks around the corner near the site of Tunnel 28 east of Cliff, Colorado, on September... (more)
A Southern Pacific AC4400CW leads a Union Pacific coal empty through Cliff, Colorado on February 17, 2001. The train is approaching the town of Pinecliffe on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.
Looking like a well-detailed scene from an ambitious model railroad, a pair of GP-60s skirts South Boulder Creek below my precarious vantage point. The two loaded coal hoppers were bad ordered and... (more)
Union Pacific’s MRONY freight heads east out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on a sparkling April 23, 2001, just moments after the clouds dispersed and the sun lit up the scene.