A UP southbound exits tunnel 17 as it continues its climb up the mountain.
March of 1995 still found F40's powering the Train #6, the Eastbound California Zephyr as it exits Tunnel #17 about a mile West of Newcastle on the Eastward Main Track #2.
A heavy westbound BNSF Denver-Stockton trackage rights train labors up slick rails, amid a very heavy snowfall, exits Tunnel 17, and then quickly enters Tunnel 18.
The North Yard-Provo manifest thunders west thru a snowy & foggy landscape near Tunnel 17, in South Draw, CO.
