Bad weather and a train derailment in Denver yesterday have turned Union Pacific's Moffat Route into a parking lot today. Here are 3 trains waiting for clearance westbound. BNSF 7611 sits on the m... (more)

Six engines(elephant style) head a westbound waiting for clearance on the Rocky siding while an eastbound in the background approaches with about 5 minutes to make the pass.

The Big Ten Curves are located on the western edge of The Great Plains at the base of the Rocky Mountain Foothills. Looking east from the foothills a UP coal train is westbound thru the Little Ten... (more)

Union Pacific power pulling westbound thru The Little Ten Curve.

An eastbound coal train is stopped on the Rocky siding and stretches west into the Little Ten Curve. In the background a Union Pacific freight train has completed the Big Ten Curves and continues ... (more)

A crew member emerges from UP 6386, stopped on the Rocky siding, to watch UP power as it heads westward into the Little Ten Curve.

Morning on the Colorado Front Range looking north toward the Flatirons of Boulder.

BNSF power coming through the south side of Little Ten while an empty UP coal train waits on the north side at Rocky siding. A mile away in the west background the Ski Train just got clearance and... (more)

The Little Ten Curve displays the entire length of the Ski Train on a winter morning.

UP 6633 is leading a string of empty hoppers around the Little Ten Curve.

A set of 7 SP AC400CWs (2 lead visible in the distance, 3 mid-train not visible, 2 end-of-train DPUs shown here) with empty CSDU hoppers, await the train's loaded counterpart, which will pass it h... (more)

Empty coal hoppers (above) exit Clay Siding, heading toward the Craig Branch with the DPUs lashed to the front of the train; below, loaded PSCX (Public Service of CO) hoppers wait at Rocky Siding ... (more)

Three coal trains within range at sunrise. Off in the distance, an set of empties rolls out of the Clay Siding toward Tunnel #1, while down here at Rocky, another empty rolls past a waiting loads... (more)

A loaded CSDU train rolls downhill toward Denver, while an empty CSDU train, holding the Rocky Siding, begins its climb toward the Craig Branch.

MNYRO stopped at Rocky Siding waiting for #5 to advance to the next block.