Storming Through the Meadows

Track speed on the high mountain meadows east of Rocky, Colorado Amtrak 6 is ducking below a rapidly developing severe thunderstorm cell abou... (more)

High Heat. BNSF Railway Train HPVODEN1 (BNSF 5930 ES44AC leading) passes through CP DS016 Rocky in Arvada, Colorado on the scorching hot afternoon of July 29, 2020. The train will be tied d... (more)

Lingering Winter Storm Light at Chemical

So subtle but still there the morning sun is beginning to break through a passing winter storm at Chemical on the Moffat Road. BNSF co... (more)

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Bestway Concrete hosts some local businesses for the Union Pacific. To the north the Flatirons stand proud over Boulder. This train will skirt the wes... (more)

Sun spot at the Big Ten. A small spot of sun appeared at the last minute as Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044) and former New York Centra... (more)

As a large thunderstorm rolls east along the plains of Colorado in the background, BNSF 3933 leads the Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest up and around Big Ten Curve after overtaking a westbound UP ... (more)

Eastbound through the storms of Summer, Amtrak California Zephyr glints vibrantly from the sun obscured by a micro-burst thunderstorm over Rocky and Leyden.

Under threatening skies, UP 4835 (SD70M) brings a new Amtrak Cascades / Washington State Department of Transportation #1408 Siemens SC-44 'Charger' unit down the Moffat Tunnel sub heading for Denv... (more)

BNSF’s eastbound to Lincoln, NE manifest is gliding down through the meadows of west Arvada near Leyden.

The westbound California Zephyr has just come out of Big Ten and passed by Clay siding on its way to Tunnel 1 and the climb up the Front Range out of Denver.

January in Colorado is one of the sunniest months. On February 2 some of that sun has carried over a couple days as a eastbound grain empty exits Tunnel 1 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. This da... (more)

UP 7080 (AC4400CW) shoves a coal train through the S curve under Highway 93 as it heads towards Denver.

The time is 5:41PM and Amtrak #6 is on time for a 6:30PM arrival in Denver. This location is the oft photographed Big Ten curve, so named for its degree of curvature. This trackage is in the trans... (more)

BNSF7034 leads a morning manifest up the Moffat Road at Tunnel 1. The "V" made by the two mountains in the background is Coal Creek Canyon. A earlier attempt to breech the Front Range by the Denv... (more)

UP 6825 and mate are DPUs on the back of a coal train that is descending through the Big Ten Curve area west of Denver, CO. It is shown under Clay siding, in Little Ten Curve.