Stormy Plainview

Severe thunderstorms are moving northeasterly into Boulder County just in time for an opening for a sun filled storm light shot at Plainview, CO. Amtrak #6... (more)

The California Zephyr rounds the corner at Big Ten Curve as it drops down from the foothills and heads to Denver's Union Station.

Heritage Amtrak 184 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the pines at Crescent, Colorado.

Blue Looper on the Moffat
Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 712 leads an eastbound coal train at Coal Creek Canyon just west of Clay, Colorado, on May 24, 2000. Blue brake shoe... (more)

Tunnel #7, scarred, stained, and sans a concrete portal reveal its venerable steam era history in the morning sun along the Moffat Road. #9771 an EMD SD70MACe, another veteran in modern times hand... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

Significant storms are leaving the region over the High Plains seen here from the majestic grandstands of the Great Plains near Plainview, CO. On this June day in 2019 near the solstice the last l... (more)

Heavy snow coated the entire Front Range including the Boulder Valley in the immediate distance and further east in this view through St Vrain and Longmont, CO. Amtrak is exiting tunnel 3 here in ... (more)

Chicago & North Western Heritage 1995 with a manifest is moving through Crescent among ground blizzards on a very windy clearing day from an overnight Spring mountain snow. Shot on my Inspire 2 la... (more)

Amtrak California Zephyr is moving through the cuts and valleys east of Pinecliffe, CO just past Tunnel 27 and into the day lighted Tunnel 28. Overcast skies help reveal all the detail in the vall... (more)

AMTK 175 (P42DC) leads the morning's California Zephyr around Blue Mountain as it heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Amtrak 48 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the 180 degree turn in Coal Creek Canyon, passing over Highway 72 in the process.

The California Zephyr Amtrak’s #5 is westbound from Denver, CO high along the Flatiron Range in rural Boulder County in the heart of the tunnel district between tunnel 7 and 8. Today Amtrak Heri... (more)

Amtrak #5, on time with the California Zephyr is passing through the Flatirons in Boulder County near tunnel 3 and 4 amidst a characteristically December Christmas week deep in the Tunnel District... (more)

Amtrak P42 in Heritage scheme #184 leads the eastbound California Zephyr into the horseshoe at Coal Creek, CO. The open mountain meadows of this open space which is the grandstands of the Great Pl... (more)