Amid a fresh snowfall at East Portal, Colorado, on April 20, 2024, is BNSF’s H-PVODEN priority freight emerging from the 6.21-mile long Moffat Tunnel into a winter-like scene.
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Amid a fresh snowfall at East Portal, Colorado, on April 20, 2024, is BNSF’s H-PVODEN priority freight emerging from the 6.21-mile long Moffat Tunnel into a winter-like scene.
After cresting the grade inside the Moffat Tunnel, UP's Grand Junction slop freight is beginning it's descent down the mountain as they close in on Denver. Todays train is rather short, and consists of exclusively covered hoppers.
An eastbound Union Pacific IPPX coal empty has just exited the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel and rolls across Gilpin County Road 16 grade crossing at East Portal, Colorado, on September 26, 2024.
At East Portal, Colorado, an eastbound Union Pacific IPPX coal empty exits the Moffat Tunnel and begins descending the two-percent grade toward Denver. Autumn color at East Portal, situated at a little over 9,200 feet in elevation, is pretty much at its peak on this beautiful morning of September 26, 2024.
Beneath lofty James Peak and the Continental Divide, Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, rolls downgrade through East Portal, Colorado, and is about to cross Gilpin County Road 16 grade crossing on the evening of September 25, 2024.
Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited the 6.2-mile long Moffat Tunnel, and now begins its 50-mile descent to the city of Denver late in the afternoon of September 25, 2024. It’s a beautiful day near the Continental Divide in Colorado’s high country, with the warm colors of autumn backlit by a quickly setting sun.
Making good time up the grade, an empty westbound BNSF oil train passes the east siding switch at East Portal, Colorado, on the warm and sunny afternoon of September 25, 2024.
Amid the colorful splendor of autumn, a BNSF freight pops into sunlight exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado, on September 29, 2003. The eastbound train is passing milepost 50 and begins the two-percent descending grade through the front range mountains to Denver.
Trans Pennine Express Bimode Nova 1 Class 802 No 802211 approaches the East Portal of Standedge Tunnel from Marsden with the 1143 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street service on 20th June 2024
Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
It’s April 27, 2024, but up in Colorado’s high country, it looks more like winter. Just after thumping over the east switch of East Portal siding, a Union Pacific coal load curves through the snowy scene.
Canadian Pacific locomotives on train MOED have just exited the Hoosac Tunnel and are crossing over the Deerfield RIver at East Portal on May 18, 2003.
A westbound Union Pacific passenger special curves past the east switch of East Portal siding approaching the Moffat Tunnel on April 24, 2024. The 11-car special (PNYSC) is pulled by a pair of UP EMD SD70Ms, Nos. 4533 and 4404.
Some Union Pacific executives and managers view the Colorado Rockies from the theater seats of car “Idaho” as it heads west toward the Moffat Tunnel that is just ahead, passing through an imposing Continental Divide at East Portal on April 24, 2024.
BNSF’s H-PVODEN priority freight emerges from the 6.21-mile long Moffat Tunnel amid a fresh snowfall at East Portal on April 20, 2024.
Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train pops out of the the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado, on March 30, 2001.
Photo-a-day Lent Calendar, 2024, for A Hobbling A Day. La Muerte Goes For A Ride was a done by two boys in the Lowrider Bike Club youth project in Española. As soon as I saw it, I was reminded of Death climbing on a chopper in Soul Music by Terry Pratchett.
This project has given me the opportunity to dig deeper into New Mexican culture.
--Eliseo Delgado
Mentor Eliseo Delgado, Lowrider Bike Club, Española, New Mexico
Artist Benjamin Lopez, Chopper, Leroy Lopez, Skeleton, Lowrider Bike Club, Española, New Mexico
Sculpture, Found Objects, Cottonwood, 1994
