Winter’s Early Arrival

Steady snowfall overnight left nearly a foot of fresh snow on Cescent, CO and most of the eastern slope of Colorado. 90 degree temperatures 36 hours pr... (more)

Winter’s Early Arrival

Steady snowfall overnight left nearly a foot of fresh snow on Cescent, CO and most of the eastern slope of Colorado. 90 degree temperatures 36 hours pr... (more)

This evening's California Zephyr (#6) passes through Crescent, Colorado, as heavy snow falls accompanied by gusty winds. The temperature yesterday was 95 degrees, and the huge snow storm today not... (more)

By the time this evening's California Zephyr (#6) got to Crescent, Colorado, there was heavy snow falling accompanied by gusty winds. The temperature yesterday was 95 degrees, and the huge snow st... (more)

Yesterday the passengers of the California Zephyr #5 train basked in 95 degree weather as it moved through Colorado. This morning's Zephyr saw snow starting to fall in the Rocky Mountains with te... (more)

Story of a Tunnel District Stall This westbound sand train is on its second attempt to make the climb thru the Tunnel District. The first attempt the train stalled at Tunnel 8 and ha... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5914 leads an eastbound UP coal train into a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of January 5, 2005.

Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction manifest freight crosses the fill over South Draw as it exits Tunnel 16 east of Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of March 30, 2002. Lead locomotive EMD... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr winds its way through snow-covered evergreen trees at Crescent, Colorado, on the snowy morning of March 27, 2009.

A private car “Cyrus K. Holliday” brings up the rear of Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr at Crescent, Colorado, during a mountain snowstorm on April 24, 2007. The rear drumhead reads “... (more)

In a springtime snowstorm in the Colorado mountains, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr passes a hi-rail truck in the siding and a Herzog work train in the house track as it treads through the... (more)

Crescent to Tunnel 19

Westbound past Crescent nearing tunnel 19 a coal bucket with some foreign power from Canadian National is in the mix and echos in the valley south of Gro... (more)

Tunnel District A very heavy westbound manifest for Grand Junction, Colorado crawls thru the most challenging portion of the Moffat Road. There is no place else on the Moffat Road that ch... (more)

Seasons mingle at Crescent after the first snows in the high country.

The rear portion of a Union Pacific coal train drops down the two percent grade through South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado, on March 30, 2002. The rear DPU’s are approaching the site of old T... (more)