Bacon, eggs, pancakes, coffee, and orange juice in the Silver Banquet through the Moffat Tunnel!

Southern Pacific 290 leads a westbound coal train up the twisting 2% Winter Park Hill. This hill remains as Union Pacific's Moffat Mainline... Unlike Tennessee Pass, the fight with gravity still h... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train has just exited the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park, Colorado, on February 16, 2002. With business car “Kansas” just outside the portal, the train is n... (more)

Skiers watch the arrival of the ski train prior to heading back to Denver after a great day on the slopes.

One of Union Pacific's senior members retired in the fall of 2008. To honor him, UP ran a passenger special from Denver, CO to Kremmling, CO on the Moffat Tunnel Sub. The train had UP 1989 and UP ... (more)

The rear DPU shoves in RUN8 up the 2% slope of winter Park Hill. The train will crest the continent inside the Moffat Tunnel....

Amtrak’s California Zephyr, train No. 5, glides through the snow at Kings Crossing west of Winter Park, Colorado, on a snowy January 3, 2004.

For over 100 years locomotives have Sand Blasted Winter Park Hill. Lifting Tonnage over the 2% grade combined with serpentine curvature brings machines to their knees, and often times their break... (more)

UP 5855 strains against grade and curvature as another coal train enters the Moffat Tunnel. The 2% wooded Winter Park Hill is the ruling grade for coal trains leaving the mines of the Colorado Pla... (more)

Eastbound #234 nears the end of its climb up to the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel - 3111, 3061 and 3117 approach Winter Park in February 1982.

An eastbound FT A-B pair, led by the final D&RGW FT ordered, followed by (apparently) one of D&RGW's five (5) Alco RS3s, and likely followed by another FT pair, reaches for the west portal of the ... (more)

Let by multi-stripe PAs, the westbound California Zephyr plunges out of the Moffatt Tunnel. The F units would soon replace the PA's as the normal power on these trains, and the multiple stripes w... (more)

Not necessarily the best mix - freight trains and skiers - but both exist side by side at Winter Park during the season - 3103 3018 3124 3097 3113 slows for the tight curve just before entering th... (more)

On a pristine June morning, 5771 5762 5763 glides the westbound "Silver Lady" through Winter Park.

A WB freight exits the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park, CO. Even in 1994, it still looked a lot like Rio Grande country.