Drone shot of UP coal train CWEMS9-13 loaded at the W. Elk Mine heading for Mississippi Power & Light makes it way down Big 10 Curve, CWEMS9-13 is running with 2 sets of DPU's (2x2x2) two engs in ... (more)

The intensity of the Moffat Subdivision is clearly noticeable as these three GE's lug this eastbound manifest towards tunnel #1.

A 4-pack of UP units make their way eastward toward tunnel #1 as they tower above the rest of their train.

A westbound Union Pacific manifest curls into Rocky. The area at the base of the Moffat is changing forever. New 500000+ dollars homes are filling the once gorgeous rolling prairie. Familiar land... (more)

Brand New BNSF 1081 leads a very early trackage rights train west over the Moffat Road. It is this photographers opinion that this was BNSFs best paint scheme.... Note the following two locomoti... (more)

Climbing through the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon on the approach to Tunnel 1 during the final snow of the 2015-2016 winter

The Circus train makes an appearance on the Moffat Tunnel line, seen here heading Westbound around the Big Ten Curve

A very colorful Herzog ballast train rolls east on UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub. These ballast cars are new and are painted white with red ends. The result is one of the most unique trains I've ever sho... (more)

This past weekend Colorado got a doozie of a spring snowstorm. Denver only saw a few inches of accumulation due to melting, but just a few miles outside of town as the tracks enter the foothills n... (more)

On a blustery April 4, 1966, F7A 5734 and a companion shove hard at Simms Street in Arvada, boosting a freight toward the distant mountains. In about 43 miles, at the Moffat Tunnel’s East Portal, ... (more)

After Philip Anschutz acquired the D&RGW and the SP, one of his first missions was to lay fiber optic cable along the D&RGW right of way from Denver to Salt Lake City. With an SD-40-2T from each... (more)

A Union Pacific welder cuts the north rail during a grade crossing replacement at 72nd Avenue on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision in Arvada, Colorado, on October 25, 2003.

The interesting consist of CSXT 3052, CREX 1408 and CSXT 702 pass by a herd of Elk as they head West on BNSF's Denver to Provo train.

It's a gorgeous afternoon west of Denver as BNSF's eastbound Provo, Utah to Denver, Colorado manifest rolls down the 2-percent grade as they approach Leyden in Arvada, Colorado on February 13, 201... (more)

BNSF's Denver to Provo manifest broke down due to one of its engines going "belly up". The rescue engine sent out of Denver happened to be the Norfolk & Western 8083 and it was even plac... (more)