Merry Christmas, everyone! A westbound Union Pacific coal train led by EMD SD90MAC-H No. 8202 and two more SD9043MACs approaches Crescent, Colorado, on a very snowy April 23, 1999. Union Pacific 8... (more)

An Eastbound Coal Load rounds the curve at Crescent using all of its dynamics and train brakes to hold the train back down the grade with two GEs including a GEVO on the point and the Continental ... (more)

The DPU on this coal load rolls down the grade trying to hold back this heavy train down the mountain with dynamics and train brakes at Crescent. The smoke from the train is from the brake shoes o... (more)

Amtrak #5, the California Zephyr sweeps around an S-Curve between Crescent and Plainview near Tunnel 18.

A Union Pacific passenger special exits Tunnel 18 east of Crescent, Colorado, on June 10, 2002. A lone, new EMD SD70, No. 4926, leads the shiny yellow train westbound through the “Tunnel Distric... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr is westbound in the Rio Grande’s Tunnel District east of Crescent, Colorado, on July 16, 1990. The train is passing through Tunnel 14, with the locomotives about to ... (more)

The day after a horrific accident due to a rock slide that claimed the lives of 2 men West of Crescent, GP40-2's 3117 and 3128 bring down the remainder of the train that was involved in the wreck.... (more)

We didn’t know it at the time, but on the very last weekend of Denver’s Rio Grande Ski Train, the westbound passenger train full of excited skiers ascends the Colorado Rockies at Crescent on M... (more)

The calendar may say winter is over, but on March 27, 2009, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty climbs through Crescent, Colorado, on a very sunny but snowy early spring day.

A BNSF freight is eastbound at Crescent, Colorado, on May 10, 2007. The imposing Continental Divide provides a snow-covered background on this nice spring day.

With a former C&NW AC4400CW in the lead, a Union Pacific coal train drops down the 2% grade out of Tunnel 15 and is about to enter Tunnel 14, near Crescent, Colorado, on March 30, 2002. The rear o... (more)

After a heavy snowstorm blanketed the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains with snow, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train enters Crescent siding on the morning of December 22, 2006. The Continenta... (more)

Spring is a couple days off, but the snow is wet and sticking to the trees like it is already spring. Four Southern Pacific AC4400CWs haul an empty coal train through the snow-covered trees at Cre... (more)

June of 1996, there was no place better to see new SP power at work. The fleet of new AC4400s was almost exclusively assigned to Colorado and Utah service. A storm rages over the Plains as SP204 ... (more)