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)

Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 846 leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight past the east switch of Clay siding climbing through Colorado’s Big 10 Curve on the afternoon of May 28... (more)

Private car “Kansas” carries the markers of the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train through a spring blizzard west of Clay, Colorado, on March 29, 2007.

In a early springtime snowstorm, the Rio Grande Ski Train curves west out of Clay, Colorado, on March 29, 2007.

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train at mile 22.6 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on December 1, 2002. The trai... (more)

A trio of Union Pacific GE AC4400CW locomotives lead a coal empty upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 23, 2000.

Two SD40-2 locomotives serving as a rear manned helper push on a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight departing Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 13, 2002. This train just met a U... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight departs Clay siding on Colorado’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. It has just met an eastbound Union Pacific coal train that can barely be seen going ... (more)

So who else (at least 7 others) was there this Jan 8, 1984 day as DRGW 5771 leads the Ski Train between Clay and Plainview, about to enter Tunnel 1.

With early morning light, DRGW 5357 leads eastbound train #742 at Clay, CO, on Feb 4, 1984.

On October 18, 1997, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight climbs the front range of the Rockies at Clay, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel route. Powering ... (more)

DRGW 5771 leading the last run of westbound train 17 at Clay, Co, Apr 23, 1983. A sad day indeed.

Midwesterners on the Moffat
After I moved from Wisconsin to Colorado in 1997, this is the first train I photographed! An eastbound Union Pacific freight drops downgrade encircling the m... (more)

DRGW 5771 leads the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr on a snow day, Mar 26, 1983. Clay, CO.

DRGW 5361 leads train #708 eastbound at Clay , CO. June 26, 1982.