The snow is falling at such a heavy rate that UP 8051 (ES44AC) has to use its pilot to plow the snow off the tracks.

UP 8051 (ES44AC) exits the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel into a heavy snowstorm that is blanketing the valley in nearly two feet of snow.

The snow is so deep that UP 8051 (ES44AC) pushes a wall of snow ahead of the train as it heads to Denver, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

UP 8051 (ES44AC) has emerged from the Moffat Tunnel into a heavy snow storm and will slowly lead an oil can train towards Denver, Colorado.

Amtrak's Winter Park Express is about to enter Tunnel 29 at Pinecliffe, Colorado as heavy snow falls in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

The pilot of UP 8051 (ES44AC) pushes the heavy snow off the rails as it leads an oil can train through Tolland, Colorado.

Heavy snow is falling at the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel as UP 8051 (ES44AC) splits the signals while running east on the Moffat Tunnel Sub towards Tolland, Colorado.

Most days one could just sit by the tracks and watch coal trains go past like a steady procession, loaded or empty. It's a crisp and clear December afternoon as the 8051 arrives in Fremont with a ... (more)

Boiling Gulch Boiling Gulch Oil From Eldorado Canyon into tunnel 29 westbound with UP 8951 running with ditch lights off. Train ID: OKKWU

A manifest sits north of downtown downtown Salt Lake City.

The Union Pacific Jefferson City sub curves through Maplewood along Greenwood Ave., which is lined with flowering trees in the Spring.

Fresh from the factory UP8031 digs into the 10 degree curves of the Austin Loops on the 2.2% battle for Mullan Pass. The rail was still wet from a passing storm, and sounds of slipping wheels, R... (more)

A train of high proof hooch takes a right to stay on the Chicago Line. By the alignment of the tracks, it is easy to tell the former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Line (now Grand Elk Railway) wa... (more)

UP 8051 Pushes a manifest south. The steel bridge to the left grants access to Union Station and the interchange with BNSF.

Near Ordway, UP 8051 west leads a Mira Loma bound rack train down off Beaumont Hill as it passes through the Canyon's many S curves.