Eastbound approaching Rocky, Colorado, a summer version of the Rio Grande Ski Train returns to Denver on the afternoon of July 22, 2006. The train served music and other special events at Winter Park, as well as mountain bikers and hikers.

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On April 12, 2001, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight is about to take down the west signal at Cliff, Colorado, on a snowy Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Even though the red paint on lead warbonnet-clad Santa Fe Dash 9 No. 610 has been partially touched up, it still looks good among the snow-flocked trees at Pinecliffe this spring day! Besides No. 610, the colorful locomotive consist includes Heritage I and II Dash 9s, a BNSF EMD SD75M and a BN EMD SD40-2.

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A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe steel coil train ascends the Rocky Mountains just west of Clay, Colorado, on May 15, 1998. The heavy train is pulled by four EMD SD40-2s with an added GP38X kicker last unit. Pushing hard on the rear is a manned helper set with a pair of SD60Ms, just visible around the curve directly above the first car of the train. An all-green consist except for the Santa Fe SD40-2…

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Two BNSF SD40-2 helpers shove BNSF’s Denver to Provo freight at Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado, on October 20, 2002. As the pushers pass the M.P. 22.6 detector, the lead locomotives approach Tunnel 1.

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A Union Pacific coal train threads through the Flat Irons rock formations exiting Tunnel 3 approaching Plainview, Colorado, on November 23, 1999. The Public Service of Colorado (PSCX) train is led by a pair of GE AC4400CWs, with a UP leading a Southern Pacific unit.

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