Winding its way through "Little Gore Canyon" this eastbound manifest is about to enter Tunnel 39.

The Westbound California Zephyr snakes its way along the Colorado River.

3085, 3073, 3053 plus two other locos highball through Troublesome siding with an eastbound freight just after the line reopened after a maintenance shutdown in May 1981.

Something I didn't see often at all, during my year chasing the D&RGW for 12 months during 1981/2, were block grain trains - 5343, 3039, 3030, 3091 and 3108 pass the AMAX yard at Kremmling with a ... (more)

RMRX 8020 leads the "Rockies To Red Rocks" train west through Colorado's Western Slope while making its way out of a canyon.

RMRX 8020 leads the "Rockies To Red Rocks" train west through Colorado while approaching Kremmling.

Amtrak's eastbound Zephyr moving through the Rockies heading for Denver

The eastbound California Zephyr rolls out of the setting sun at Kremmling, CO.

A fog bank hangs in the sky above Kremmling as a eastbound coal train passes the Kremmling signal. The train was loaded on the Craig Branch.

Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, passes through a short tunnel in Gore Canyon outside of Kremmling, CO on November 9, 2017.

With a westbound train in the siding, Rio Grande Train 138 rolls east through Kremmling, Colorado on the Moffat line. The Union Pacific SD40-2 between the two Rio Grande units will become commonpl... (more)

A westbound manifest freight train rolls through Gore Canyon near Kremmling, CO on February 13, 2016.

The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 17 rolls through incredible Gore Canyon west of Kremmling, Colorado on April 14, 1979.

A UP coal load assults the 1% grade up Gore Canyon. The Moffat Road ran a survey around this chasm up and over the Gore Range on a long and twisting 2%, the route thru the canyon was more expensiv... (more)

The head end of a train full of empty coal hoppers bound for the Craig Branch pokes out of Tunnel 39 as the tail end continues the journey around the curves of the valley floor.