BNSF 8533 leads 8531 and 8530 on their first revenue run, a coal load dropping down UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The train is seen here dropping down from Tunnel 1, and will soon be going 180 d... (more)

The first run of the Denver to Winter Park Ski train heads West at Rocky Siding.

Rio Grande 5332 leads an assortment of SP/Cotton Belt power in a variety of paint/lettering schemes.

With the mountains behind them, two Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train through Arvada, Colorado, on the autumn day of October 19, 2001.

A westbound BNSF manifest filled out with large cuts of heavy coil steel moves up the steep 2% grade in Coal Creek Canyon. The train is about to punch into Tunnel One and turn north for its cliff... (more)

On a beautiful, crystal clear Colorado morning, the eastbound Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus train descends down the main at Plain on its way into Denver. UP found some very nice power f... (more)

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)