UP7328 strains against the 2% grade east of Fraser, CO with a load of Colorado Black Diamonds. The storm front will move in quickly making this days brilliant early morning sun short-lived.

A family of Amish tourists prepare to board Amtrak's California Zephyr train at the Winter Park-Fraser station stop in the Colorado Rockies.

The five Tunnel Motors having gone past, it was time to concentrate on the helpers. Taken across the top of a train of loaded MoPac coal hoppers, 3125 and 3197 blur the winter background with thei... (more)

Thundering through Fraser, a wall of engines, in the form of 3120, 3058, 3084, 3046, 3104 and 5334, move an eastbound freight upgrade towards the Moffat Tunnel and on to Denver, in June 1981.

A hiker stops to watch the empty Ski Train climb out of Fraser on its way from Tabernash to Winter Park on cold February day just over 28 years ago. Power for the day was 3118 and 3124, with heat ... (more)

While I was looking at slides the other day, I noticed this one. While I worked at Amtrak during the 1980's, I often took my cameras with me. Every chance I got, I photographed the trains and scen... (more)

The California Zephyr, led by AMTK 15 & 165, comes out of the Winter Park range and drops down into Fraser for a brief stop to pick up a few passengers before continueing on to California. Fresh s... (more)

An eastbound coal crawls out of Fraser on the final leg of the climb to the Moffat Tunnel in January 1982 in the capable hands of 5382 5404 5364 5399 and 5403, with helpers 3125 and 3097 behind th... (more)

The surrounding snow having lost its freshness, 5411 3055 3110 and 3099 takes the main at Winter Park siding with eastbound #100, on the last couple of hundred yards of climb before the Moffat Tun... (more)

The photographer's very first encounter with the D & RGW just over 28 years ago - an eastbound at Fraser behind 3123 3037 and 3054, with 3101 and 3111 helping at the rear, in April 1981.

An eastbound freight blasts up through Fraser siding behind 3103 3018 3124 3097 and 3113 in January 1982.

The empty cars from Tabernash for the return Ski Train to Denver ambles through Fraser towards waiting passengers at Winter Park behind 3122 and 3121 in January 1982.

As the sun gets low in the winter sky, 3118 and 3124 with the return Ski Train wait for their passengers to board at Winter Park, just outside of the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel, in February ... (more)

Having attached rear end helpers 3108 and 3110 at Tabernash, an eastbound coal thunders up grade into Fraser siding behind 5390 5360 5352 5356 and 5380 in March 1982.

An eastbound coal is dragged slowly upgrade through Fraser siding behind a quintet of Tunnel Motors, 5356 5381 5347 5351 5375, with 3123 and 3125 pushing in the rear, on a very cold and snowy Janu... (more)