West South Draw South Draw is a horse shoe curve situated behind the Flat Irons on the other side of Eldorado Mountain in Eldorado Canyon. It is the 3rd set of horse shoe curves beginn... (more)

Marc’s Cool Trains Marc Glucksman’s amazing Webb Rail cars passes into Boulder Park at the Great Divide in March.

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on October 12, 2022, with private car “Northern Sky” carrying the markers. This dome-observation “Grand Touring Car” i... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on the morning of October 12, 2022. Trailing the Superliner consist this day is... (more)

Amtrak Heritage at 29 Tunnel vision on 50 years of Amtrak rim reflective lighted from the January morning sunshine in Tunnel 29.

Aspen Gold Number 5 running west through Tolland on a very typical Autumn day in the high country.

Rocky Mountain California Zephyr
Amtrak 5 is like a n scale train coming from tunnel 13 in comparison to the dramatic mountain cliffs of South Draw and Eldorado Canyon.

Approach on Tunnel 30
Into the vibrant sun through Lincoln Hills and into Rollins Canyon Amtrak 5 is about to enter tunnel 30.

A pair of grimy Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors help Amtrak’s California Zephyr with some extra power over Soldier Summit on July 7, 1988. The train is now heading downgrade through the curves ... (more)

Snow is coming down pretty hard as the engineer of Amtrak’s California Zephyr climbs down to make a quick trip back toward the diner for a cup of coffee. The train is having its “smoke stop”... (more)

#5 highballs the west siding switch at Crescent on a windy summer morning, giving passengers a sweeping view of the Rockies and the Gross Dam Reservoir as they continue to gain elevation enroute t... (more)

With an arduous crossing of the Continental Divide now behind it, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr cruises west out of Granby, Colorado, on November 15, 2021.

Running about an hour and a half behind schedule, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr catches the last light of the day as it speeds past farm fields in Batavia, Iowa on BNSF's Ottumwa Sub. In th... (more)

Cutting it close. I tried to caculate how far east I would have to go to get a picture of Amtrak number 5 with the sun still up. I pulled it off with about 15 minutes to spare. At Verde on the Gre... (more)

Looking a bit like an N scale model, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr edges the rocky cliffs through Gore Canyon at Azure, Colorado, on September 15, 2021.