The first train of the morning crosses Glenfinnan Viaduct on its eastbound journey from the coastal village of Mallaig to Fort William. A dusting of fresh May snow coats the higher elevations of t... (more)

In the warm light of a Front Range sunrise, a UP coal empty is draped around the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon west of Denver. The lead locomotive, clad in a special Operation Life Saver paint scheme... (more)

Here it is in late February with Denver finally having received its first respectable snow for the year. The day after was cold but sunny, ending with a quick chase of one of the locals on the KP ... (more)

A blast of the horn carries for miles across the sandhills of North Carolina, but the sound of the locomotive bell - that means you're close. The hurried clang-clang-clang, rising in pitch as it a... (more)

In Cadillac Ranch, Bruce Springsteen sings of Junior Johnson "runnin' through the woods of Caroline." There were no Cadillacs in sight on this picture-perfect fall day, but the line was running th... (more)

Steam and smoke mix in the forest after a hard run up the hill by the Manitou & Pike's Peak rarely-operated steam locomotive. The M&PP's 1897 Vauclain Compound cog locomotive #4 is believed to be ... (more)

The sun rises directly over the Denver skyline, just a blip on the horizon from this vantage point about 16 miles away. Below, a coal train is stretched out over Big Ten Curve as it begins the cli... (more)

Led by a GP39V still in BN paint, the Longmont Turn slowly accelerates away from the Valmont power plant heading toward it's next assignment on a warm January afternoon.

Leaving the flatlands of eastern Colorado and the Denver skyline quickly behind, an empty UP coal train storms uphill back toward the mines deep in the heart of the Colorado Rockies. Though not ea... (more)

This locomotive has seen a whole lot of service since it was built for the Santa Fe in 1951. Here it's coupled up nose-to-nose with one of the A&R's GP38s, awaiting some TLC after coming up from t... (more)

A southbound BNSF manifest with a trio of GEs up front cruises over a bridge still sporting its railroad heritage.

Sunset finds one of the many BNSF coal trains that traverse the Joint Line heading north toward Castle Rock and Denver.

A trio of CN units is pulling uphill toward the Palmer Divide passing the often-photographed barn at Greenland.

Sunset doesn't end when the sun sinks behind the mountains of the Palmer Divide. For the next twenty minutes the sky is painted with light, with colors and textures appearing and quickly receding.... (more)

In an unusual display of foreign power, 3 CN units are on the head end of a southbound manifest freight near Greenland. This was the 2nd of 4 southbounds spread out along Main 1 waiting for a coup... (more)