Crazy eights
Union Pacific coal train CEYPS curves past milepost 22 just west of Eisele (Clay), Colorado, early in the morning of February 9, 2015. UP No. 8888, built in 2014, is a heav... (more)

Led by Western Pacific heritage SD70ACe No. 1983, Union Pacific’s Denver to Phippsburg, Colorado, manifest freight train works upgrade out of Eisele toward Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing on ... (more)

Union Pacific’s MNYPH freight from Denver to Phippsburg, Colorado, works upgrade out of Eisele led by Western Pacific heritage SD70ACe No. 1983 on the afternoon of April 14, 2019.

From this vantage point you get a good perspective of the grade change as UP 6049 (AC44CWCTE) drops down from Tunnel #1 and heads to the Big Ten Curve.

AMTK 11 leads the California Zephyr up the steep grade to Tunnel #1 and will soon pass through 31 tunnels as it winds its way through the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

UP 6049 (AC44CWCTE) leads a long coal train down the mountain from Tunnel 1 and has made the 180 degree turn in Coal Creek Canyon as it heads toward the Big Ten curve. Three helper units provide ... (more)

Heavy snow is falling along the Colorado Front Range as the California Zephyr heads into the Rocky Mountains.

The morning California Zephyr out of Denver gets a late start heading into the Rocky Mountains, and as the train crosses Blue Mountain Drive you can see a railfan taking pics as it passes.

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3035 leads the last MRONY (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to North Yard in Denver) freight over Blue Mountain grade crossing west of Eisele, Colorado.

Leaving Denver behind on a beautiful June 9, 2013, afternoon, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty wraps itself around Big 10 Curve as the head end passes by the east switch at Eisele, Colorado, d... (more)

Four GE AC4400CWs lead Union Pacific’s MNYRO (North Yard, Denver to Roper Yard, Salt Lake City) manifest freight climbing though a snow-covered Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Eisele, Colorado, o... (more)

Last MRONY
On December 8, 2018, EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3035 leads the last MRONY (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to North Yard in Denver) freight at Blue Mountain grade crossing west of Eisele... (more)

Two Kansas City Southern EMD SD70ACes power a westbound 73-car Union Pacific oil train around Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on February 13, 2016.

Union Pacific’s manifest freight from Salt Lake City to Denver drops downgrade at Eisele, Colorado, on the afternoon of February 13, 2016. Above the locomotives is the west switch at Rocky, wher... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight fills Big 10 Curve as it drops downgrade from Eisele to Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of February 13, 2016.