Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5401 leads Union Pacific’s MDVRO (Denver to Salt Lake City) manifest freight rumbling through Crescent, Colorado, on April 2, 2001. This locomotive has be... (more)

Union Pacific’s MDVRO (Denver to Salt Lake City) manifest freight exits Tunnel 1 on the approach to Plainview, Colorado, on April 25, 2001. Leading the freight is Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor... (more)

Union Pacific MDVRO (Denver to Salt Lake City manifest) charges westward out of Leyden, Colorado, during a light snowfall on January 28, 2001. Powering the train is UP SD40-2 No. 3281, followed by... (more)

Union Pacific MDVRO (Denver to Salt Lake City manifest) freight curves over Coal Creek and approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on April 13, 2001. The train is powered by three Rio Gra... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 leads Union Pacific’s MDVRO (Denver to Salt Lake City) manifest freight at East Portal, Colorado, on April 2, 2001.

Union Pacific MDVRO (Denver to Roper Yard, Salt Lake City manifest) rumbles west out of Leyden, Colorado, on September 19, 2001, powered by three EMD SD9043MACs mixed with a SD70M and two SP GE AC... (more)

New Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4271 leads three Rio Grande SD40T-2s as power on UP MDVRO west arcing into the setting sun of January 6, 2001, at Crescent, Colorado.

Union Pacific’s westbound MDVRO (Denver to Roper Yard in Salt Lake City) manifest freight passes a colorful cottonwood tree just east of Leyden siding in Arvada, Colorado, on October 22, 2001.

Westbound Union Pacific MDVRO freight is at Tolland, Colorado, on October 1, 2008. In a view of the train through a stand of golden aspen seen during the peak of autumn’s color in the high count... (more)

Leaving Leyden, Colorado, under angry skies, Union Pacific westbound manifest MDVRO ascends toward the Front Range on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, led by EMD... (more)

The golden colors of autumn light up the hillsides above Tolland, Colorado, on the morning of October 1, 2008. Westbound Union Pacific MDVRO freight passes by as clouds roll off the Continental Di... (more)

Curving through South Draw
Union Pacific’s Denver to Salt Lake City freight (MDVRO) rumbles through the Tunnel District east of Crescent, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 22, 199... (more)

Union Pacific’s MDVRO freight between Denver’s North Yard and Salt Lake City’s Roper Yard passes over Blue Mountain Drive west of Clay, Colorado, on September 23, 1999. Four EMD’s from the... (more)

Flying the fallen flag
Union Pacific freight MDVRO approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on September 29, 1998. All three former Rio Grande GP60s are on the point, although t... (more)

Rio Grande Tunnel Motor No. 5401 leads Union Pacific freight MDVRO at Rollins, Colorado, on October 15, 2001. The power included 7 AC4400CWs in both UP and SP varieties and maybe the reason 5401 w... (more)