A Union Pacific passenger train follows the Colorado River approaching Yarmony, Colorado, while traveling westbound over the railroad’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on August 3, 2014. Powering the ... (more)

Big Oil on Moffat

OWUSJ-07 Wildcat, UT to St. James, LA Originated on Utah Rwy
Big oil fills the valley from tunnel 1 to Blue Mountain Road on January 10, 2021. Sh... (more)

Big Oil on Moffat

OWUSJ-07 Wildcat, UT to St. James, LA Originated on Utah Rwy
Big loaded Union Pacific oil here past tunnel 26 near Wundervu, CO after about 3” ... (more)

The haze is thick as the California Zephyr rounds the horseshoe corner in Coal Creek Canyon and gets ready to climb the hill towards Tunnel #1.

BNSF 8148 (ES44C4) has just met the morning's California Zephyr at Rollinsville, Colorado and will head down the Moffat Tunnel Sub to Denver later in the day.

Warbonnet BNSF 4705 (Dash9) leads three other BNSF Pumpkins in an elephant formation as they drop down from Tunnel #1 and head into Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.

Between 6 and 7

Amtrak 5 the California Zephyr is exiting the bore at Tunnel 6 and about to enter the darkness of Tunnel 7 high up on the Flatiron Range over Boulder County... (more)

Eagle on the Continental Divide

The Union Pacific heritage Missouri Pacific Eagle rolls into the morning sun just after sunrise on a summer’s morning east of the Great Di... (more)

Western Pacific Leads West

Western Pacific 1983 leads the MNYGJ through East Portal in the glistening low light of an early spring evening at the Great Divide.

In the Valley of the Grande Gold

Absolute peak color lines the Moffat Road at Tolland on the original grade. The Union Pacific Armor Yellow MGJNY makes a timely and complim... (more)

Snow, Blowing Snow, Sun, and Mountains

Weather and trains, this is my passion and finding that spot between the sun and a raging winter storm over the Great Divide is alway... (more)

Warbonnet Leader at Plainview in 2021

Eastbound HPVODEN1 was especially short today and with a most unusual visitor, first time in many years I’ve had the rare privilege ... (more)

With high winds whipping the snow capped mountains above the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel, BNSF 8148 (ES44C4) leads a mixed freight out of the mountain shadows and into the open area around To... (more)

Just when the dirt road through the Colorado river gorge reached again the edge of the canyon, this UP mixed freight came along, together with the only sunshine spot of the day! Leading are AC4400... (more)

Tunnel 26 Aglow in Reflected Light

Westbound through the tunnel district the daily Provo manifest tugs 10 power units 7 in view here through the Rockies not around them. The af... (more)