Amtrak engine #134 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr around Big Ten Curve as it runs past a line of ballast-filled coal cars that have been welded to an adjacent track as a wind break.
Falling snow covers both the California Zephyr as it leaves the North Yard and the Union Pacific Officer Special passenger train that will soon follow the Zephyr up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
Amtrak’s Empire Builder 7 makes its way westbound at Gold Bar in the morning hours on the scenic sub.
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