Both leader and DPU are visible as the QPVDVJ-14 descends the Moffat Route.

Well worth the drenching! The rear DPU of an eastbound coal train passes through the Blue Mountain Road grade crossing.

The sun briefly pokes out of the clouds as UP 8705 leads the Herzog Ballast train up and out of Coal Creek Canyon while laying new ballast for the tracks.

After waiting for a few trains at Rocky Siding, UP 8705 leads a westbound Herzog Ballast train up Coal Creek Canyon.

BNSF 6967 snakes around the curve at Blue Mountain Road leading the QPVDVJ-14 towards Denver.

Amtrak 6 descends from Tunnel 1 in the evening sunlight running about 30 minutes late.

After being pounded by a thunderstorm, the sun returns along the Rocky Mountains as the CWEMS9-12 snakes around Coal Creek Canyon by Blue Mountain Rd.

As the sun starts to set, UP 8708 leads the MNYRO (freight from North Yard, CO to Roper Yard, UT) through Coal Creek Canyon on the UP Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

The sun is gone for the day as Union Pacific SD70ACe-T4 Nos. 3027, 3019, 3014 lead three more UP units on the North Yard-Roper Yard manifest up the 2-percent grade into Coal Creek Canyon near Arva... (more)

Encircling the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon east of Plainview, Colorado, on January 8, 2003, is a westbound Union Pacific coal empty with eight locomotives up front. Seven GE AC4400CW varieties from... (more)

Five BNSF GEs take charge on the westbound Denver, Colorado to Provo, Utah trackage rights manifest as it climbs the 2-percent grade in Coal Creek Canyon at Blue Mountain Road on March 14, 2017. T... (more)

Today began the start of Daylight Savings Time which fortunately gives us an extra hour of daylight. In the late afternoon sun around 5:30 PM, AMTK NPCU No. 406 leads the eastbound Ski Train "... (more)

The one and only time I'll ever photograph the RBBB Circus Train traveling over former Rio Grande rails. On June 13, 2016, the circus train moved from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Las Vegas, Neva... (more)

A colorful lash up led by BNSF C44-9W No. 720 descends the 2-percent grade with BNSF's Provo, Utah to Denver, Colorado manifest in Coal Creek Canyon on December 23, 2016.

Drone Shot - UP #6570 leads the MRONY-25 out of Tunnel 1 with a nice mix of power as they head east bound on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.