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Pictures from a trip along the ex-Denver & Rio Grande Western's (now Union Pacific) Moffat Tunnel Subdivision 23rd through 25th of April, 2004. Just before our arrival, a snowstorm had moved through the area and prepared a winter wonderland that lasted the entire first day.
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Four GEs negotiate the upper turn of Big Ten curve.
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Four GEs negotiate the upper turn of Big Ten curve.

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  • View from Blue Mountain towards Denver. A westbound empty coal train is approaching Rocky Siding.
  • Westbound empties heading up Big Ten Curve. Downtown Denver in right background.
  • An empty coal train is traversing the Coal Creek Canyon horseshoe and is about to enter Tunnel 1.
  • Four GEs negotiate the upper turn of Big Ten curve.
  • Head and tail end of the same train draped around Big Ten curve.
  • Remote-controlled pushers shoving on the rear end of a coal train at Blue Mountain crossing.
  • A loaded coal train in full dynamics approaches the hotbox detector at MP 22.6.
  • Descending from Tunnel 1.
  • A loaded coal train in full dynamics descends through the Coal Creek Canyon horseshoe.
  • A Denver to Grand Junction mixed freight enters Crescent siding for a meet with an eastbound coal train.
  • Eastbound coal train meets westbound mixed feight at Crescent siding. View towards the Continental Divide.
  • The east portal of Moffat Tunnel. In the siding are two new EMD SD70ACe units undergoing high-altitude testing.
  • Westbound freight heading towards Moffat Tunnel in the high Rollins Valley.
  • GE AC44 and an EMD SD9043MAC lead a loaded coal train downgrade at Blue Mountain.
  • Amtrak #5 westbound at Tolland.
  • Clouds of a late spring snowstorm are clearing as an eastbound threads its way into Gore Canyon west of Kremmling, CO.
  • AC44 in DPU service, flying it's flag in the light of an approaching storm.
  • Pushers on an eastbound coal train in Gore Canyon. View from Inspiration Point.
  • A westbound leaving Byers Canyon under a light dusting of snow.
  • Falling snow and eastbound coal in Byers Canyon.
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