Grain Shuttle on Moffat

An unusual surprise with the movement of some grain over the Moffat Road on a cold very windy day after a fresh 4” of snow the day before. This is a G... (more)

Early Union Pacific locomotive consists on Colorado’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel line could be colorful as seen on April 2, 2001. Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 leads UP and Southern Pacif... (more)

Along the South Boulder

Amtrak 5 the California Zephyr now running a truncated schedule that is tri-weekly is passing over the fill near Rollinsville deep in the canyon al... (more)

KCS 4114 & UP 4936 pass Rollinsville (CO) with a westbound tank train.

Six EMD SD70MACs lead a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train west on Union Pacific‘s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision at Rollinsville, Colorado, on October 3, 2001. Before the train loaded... (more)

Amtrak number 5, the California Zephyr is on the fill west of Rollinsville, CO along South Boulder Creek among the peak color of Aspens.

DRGW 5771 leads westbound train #118 at Rollinsville, CO, on Mar 26, 1983.

UP 6570 (C44ACCTE) pulls a long freight through Rollinsville, Colorado.

The California Zephyr passes by the changing aspen as it climbs towards the Moffat Tunnel.

The California Zephyr climbs the grade at Rollinsville, Colorado as it heads to the Moffat Tunnel east portal.

Rio Grande’s first EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor,” No. 5341, leads Union Pacific’s MDVRO manifest freight westbound just west of Rollinsville, Colorado, on September 22, 1998. Trailing No. 534... (more)

On a warm August afternoon, a tardy Amtrak 5 rolls west through the siding at Rollinsville, CO with the Phase I heritage unit #156 on point on August 5th, 2019.

DRGW 3129 leads the ski train westbound at Rollinsbille, CO, Mar 26, 1983.

South Boulder Creek is frozen in the January cold, but the head-end crew of this eastbound is reasonably comfortable thanks to an EMD redesign that has made cab and hood on its new GP30 model snug... (more)

UP SD70AH 8948 leads EMDX 1502 to the Moffat Tunnel for high altitude testing on a sunny day in March, 2016.