Duck Blind at Rocky

A little fun with some of the scrub brush back in 2018.

The passengers on the California Zephyr were greeted with a strong September snow storm as they passed through the Moffat Tunnel and the continental divide and dropped down the Front Range towards... (more)

On the afternoon of May 28, 2000, Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 846, along with a pair of Heritage II C44-9Ws, leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest out of Rocky Colorado. The train is ... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Stockton to Denver manifest is about to pass the DPUs of a loaded Union Pacific coal train tied down in Rocky siding on the afternoon of April 28, 2002. In the lat... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Stockton to Denver manifest freight drops downgrade off Big 10 Curve approaching Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of April 28, 2002. In the late 1990s, a large gr... (more)

Three Rio Grande EMD GP40-2s powering Union Pacific’s West Local with six cars, drops down the steep grade of Rocky Spur where it meets the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision main line at Rocky, Colorado... (more)

Traversing the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel main line, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. An eastbound Union Pacific c... (more)

Rip-Rap A heavy train of rip-rap rock climbs the 2% grade out of Rocky Siding. The 8000+ ton train is set up 3x2 and is screaming in Run-8 as it passes our vantage point inside the Big-T... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr, train #6, descends down the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies around Big Ten Curve as it nears Denver, CO. Here, this already late train will come to a st... (more)

Here we see the California Zephyr rounding Big Ten Curve. Big Ten is a series of long curved sections of track ('Little Ten' is 90 degrees and the largest, 'Big Ten', is 270 degrees) with a track ... (more)

The California Zephyr rounds the corner at Big Ten Curve as it drops down from the foothills and heads to Denver's Union Station.

AMTK 152 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through Big Ten Curve which will help the train climb the steep grade towards Tunnel #1.

The ski train gets an early start as it heads up the Moffat Tunnel Sub, passing through Little Ten Curve, which will soon be followed by Big Ten Curve and then 28 tunnels on its way towards the Wi... (more)

With the City of Denver skyline visible in the background, Amtrak 172 leads the California Zephyr around Big Ten Curve, passing a wind-break consisting of a string of former coal cars filled with ... (more)

The California Zephyr climbs the hill behind a BNSF freight that was holding on the Rocky siding and is now heading to Denver.