The Valley of the Giants

Westbound into the sunset late in the summer the evening sun will fill this valley at East Portal on the Moffat Sub. Tailings below me from an abando... (more)

Fall in the Mountains

Winter has left an overnight treat on this late Fall day on the Moffat Road near the Great Divide. A classic shot taken as low as possible to avoid obsc... (more)

Threading The Flatirons

When David Moffat dreamed of his railroad the task to cut through these ancient spires must have been an unimaginable stressor. Surveying was a Herculea... (more)

1971-2011

Amtrak Heritage unit #156 in Heritage I leads the California Zephyr at tunnel 1 and Coal Creek Canyon.

Amtrak 5 is passing through the Flatirons Range on a hot Summer morning. On the rear is New York Central “Portland” private car. Good friend and fellow railpictures contributor K. Morgan of C... (more)

Amtrak #192 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the scenic mountain valley of Tolland, Colorado as it makes its way to the Moffat Tunnel.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train curves out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on September 4, 2000. The train is arcing through one of the sharpest curves on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, at what I b... (more)

Moffat Sand A unit sand train climbs the Big 10 on the Moffat Road. The sand is headed for the oil and gas fields of Western Colorado and Central Utah. The vast basin between the Main Ran... (more)

Running two hours later than normal due to scheduled track maintenance, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr climbs through the Rocky Mountains between the sidings of Tolland and East Portal on UP... (more)

Crescent to Tunnel 19

Westbound past Crescent nearing tunnel 19 a coal bucket with some foreign power from Canadian National is in the mix and echos in the valley south of Gro... (more)

Fall in the Valley

Amtrak 5 skims the Tolland valley past Karel Park Lake below the Giants Ladder of the old Rollins Pass line among peak Fall color. About to cross East Po... (more)

The eastbound California Zephyr climbs through Glenwood Canyon along the scenic Colorado River.

At the foot of Eldorado Mountain

WKRDVG-29 Work train-Kremmling-Denver-Gang train works eastbound out of tunnel 10 through daylighted tunnel 9 on a vibrant summer morning d... (more)

HPVODEN1 rolls past the remnants of Fireclay, CO at Clay now Eisele. In the distance the Flatirons range still dominates the scene. Big Ten and Little Ten will drop this BNSF hazmat an additional ... (more)

Tunnel District A very heavy westbound manifest for Grand Junction, Colorado crawls thru the most challenging portion of the Moffat Road. There is no place else on the Moffat Road that ch... (more)