After running through Coal Creek Canyon the Winter Park Express gets ready to climb the grade up to Tunnel #1 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

The Winter Park Express Ski Train rounds the curve leading up to Tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.

The Winter Park Express Ski Train is seen through branches covered in freezing fog and snow in -8 degree weather. The rough conditions made an amazing landscape for passenters and crew.

The Winter Park Express Ski Train runs through Coal Creek Canyon after freezing fog and snow showers blanketed the trees and shrubs with thick frost.

Freezing fog and snow showers along the Front Range created a winter wonderland for passengers and crew of the Winter Park Express. Here the train runs through Plainview, Colorado which was cover... (more)

Heavy snow is blanketing the tracks as two deer are more interested in the photographer than the California Zephyr moving through the Rainbow Cut at Plainview, Colorado.

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr train #6 navigates through Colorado Rockies as it passes the siding station of Plainview. With Amtrak's Phase I 50th Anniversary locomotive leading, this Zephy... (more)

Even though not technically a heritage engine, Amtrak #203 in the Operation Lifesaver livery has one of the more striking paint schemes of any P42DC.

Amtrak P42DC No.203 painted in an Operation Lifesaver livery is on point of the California Zephyr as it heads up to tunnel 1

A mid-morning view from atop Tunnel 1 on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision sees a ten-unit UP M-NYGJ looping around the side of the mountain below. The manifest has just mounted the iconic... (more)

The colorful Amtrak engine #203 in the yellow and black Operation Life Saver paint scheme leads the California Zephyr through Plainview, Colorado under heavy snow conditions.

The California Zephyr runs through the S curves at Rainbow Cut in Plainview, Colorado as two deer check out the photographer. It was about this point where I went from saying 'stay there' as the ... (more)

Grande Emotions on Memories Nearly Rio Grande, almost with that yellow and black and white fresh powder being whisked from the rail head, a feast for the Grande heart.

Amtrak engine 163 (P42DC) climbs towards Tunnel #1 at Plainview as it leads the Winter Park Express into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

The colorful Operation Lifesaver engine leads the California Zephyr towards Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado.