One of my all time favorite photos of the Rio Grande Zephyr as train No. 17 climbs through the Colorado Front Range at Tunnel 3. The fill the train is crossing was washed out by flood water on Sep... (more)

Amtrak heads east thru the gorgeous Colorado Front Range about to enter Tunnel 27.

With the road crew of train #100 offering a roll by in the siding at Crescent, the Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 ascends the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies on its westward journey to Salt Lake ... (more)

Burlington Northern F-9A #1 and F-9B #2 painted in the "Executive colors" descend Eastbound down Southern Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Line at the East switch of Pinecliff on their way to Denver.

A late westbound California Zephyr begins the 12-degree horseshoe curve just east of Pinecliff. This curve is the sharpest east of the Moffat Tunnel, and takes the train through the shortest of t... (more)

Westbound empty coal hits the east switch of Pinecliff siding behind 5393, 5388, 5347, 5398 and 5401 on a sunny day in October 1981.

The California Zephyr climbs the Rookies on its westward trek. I lost my breath twice on this shot, first the hike up, and then the view from the rocks! For a just off the plane, flat-lander from ... (more)

A short walk down from the highway gets you to the east side of Tunnel 29 on the UP Moffat Road line. BNSF has trackage rights over this former DRG&W line and runs several trains a day each way.

89. Going to help a train with an unknown air issue this MOW employee will take that bar to rail his hi-rail truck onto the tracks. With limited access, this is the only way in.

A matched set of five Tunnel Motors take one hundred and five car #708 eastbound coal from Phippsburg through Pinecliff in October 1981. Seventy-odd cars back are another four Tunnel Motors. Pictu... (more)

With business car Wilson McCarthy trailing, #17 Rio Grande Zephyr is up to full load as it approaches Tunnel 29 at Pinecliff in March 1982, lead by 5771 5762 253 5763.

3099 and 3123 ease the Winter Park bound Ski Train through Tunnel 29 near Pinecliff towards the end of the 1981/2 Ski Season.

An eastbound Rio Grande freight descends through Tunnel 29 deep in the canyon of South Boulder Creek on the Moffat Tunnel route. Hard to believe this scene was recorded more than a quarter centur... (more)

The Ski Train is gaining Altitude with some Attitude! For the second weekend in a row, UP 1989 (the Rio Grande Heritage Unit) leads the train over South Boulder Creek just east of the siding of Cl... (more)

A UP coal train bound for Colorado Springs waits in the clear for a meet with Amtrak #6.