Empty coal cars westbound through Pine at a 17mph speed restriction

Empty coal cars westbound

Loaded oil train OXPSJ-24 is seen heading East through the small town of Pinecliff, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The train is running on a restricted speed due to track work and will... (more)

D&RGW FT 543 and mates lead a 65 car freight near Pinecliff in 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A somewhat unusual power combination for a coal train of GP40s and a GP30 come around the corner at Pinecliff, CO with the Continental Divide in the background and South Boulder creek providing a ... (more)

The California Zephyr runs through Pinecliffe, Colorado with two Patrick Henry Promotion cars on the end.

BNSF 6861 (ES44C4) leads a long freight through the trees east of Pinecliffe, Colorado.

Coming out of the tunnel on a snowy Saturday..brr!

On a crisp Memorial Day morning, the westbound Zephyr is on time just east of Cliff. The California-bound train is passing through the last tunnel in the Tunnel District (when heading west), tunne... (more)

BNSF 8545 (SD70ACe) leads an oil can train through Pinecliff, Colorado.

A westbound empty coal train pulls out of the passing siding at Cliff.

A westbound empty coal train has just meet a load train at Cliff Siding on the Moffat Tunnel Sub. Heavy snow is falling in the higher elevations, making for some interesting conditions. Cliff sidi... (more)

BN’s executive ski train slips through 90-ft. Tunnel 29 (the shortest one on D&RGW’s Moffat Line) near Pinecliff, Colo. as it heads back to home rails at Denver on Jan. 18, 1994. The F unit... (more)

With two GP40-2s charging up the 2% grade, Rio Grande’s ski train is a little over half way to the slopes at Winter Park at the west portal of Moffat Tunnel. The unique motor car shed at Pinecl... (more)

Running with only six coaches and a combine on Jan. 21, 1984, Rio Grande’s ski train is nearing the shortest tunnel on the route, No. 29 which is only 90-ft. in length, near Pinecliff, Colo.