A Denver to Salt Lake manifest rumbles along the Colorado River

The annual sugar beet campaign is underway in northern Colorado as Great Western Railway SW-1’s 62 and 63 with caboose 1010 set out in late afternoon, October 26, 1968, from Johnstown for Lovela... (more)

A northbound empty coal train is silhouetted by a stormy sunrise south of Bill, Wyoming, where coal and oil mix, and the antelope and jack rabbit population far exceeds humans. The SD70MAC is serv... (more)

Although the season has certainly changed since the last time I was here in February, the power definitely has not. The 5741 and 6201 ... (more)

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus train crests 5032 ft. York Summit near Santaquin on June 14, 2016. The 59 car special was traveling between Colorado Springs, Colorado and Las Vega... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest heavy in unfinished steel, I-beams and tank cars climbs the 2% grade thru South Boulder Canyon. The train has 5 big motors, configured 3x2. The railroad has followed Sout... (more)

A BNSF coal train bound for Boardman, Oregon, crosses Union Pacific’s bridge over the Snake River at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the Washy)... (more)

About a half a mile east of this location near the now daylighted Tunnel 28, the RBBB Circus Train stalled out due to only having two of their three motors online for fuel conservation. Once the c... (more)

On August 26, 2013, Union Pacific was testing Electro-Motive Diesel’s SD70ACes on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colorado. UP’s mobile laboratory car No. UPP 210 is bracketed by... (more)

Union Pacific was testing Electro-Motive Diesel’s SD70ACes on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colorado, on August 26, 2013. UP’s mobile laboratory car No. UPP 210 is bracketed by... (more)

2 sets of 3 MRL SD70ACes are the helpers based in Livingston, MT on the MRL 1st Subdivision. One set is pushing a BNSF Manifest Westbound, the other is waiting for a Westbound BNSF Grain to push o... (more)

Returning to Durango from Silverton, the last train of the day eases into the sharp curves at the high line near Rockwood, southbound on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

In gorgeous, late afternoon sun, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief drops down the 2-percent part of the grade on Raton Pass with Fisher Peak in the background on May 21, 2016.

"See America First" For 87 years, the Empire Builder has brought passengers from all around the world to Northwest Montana to see the wonders of Glacier National Park and it was s... (more)

The UP Potash Local is returning up the Cane Creek Sub and starting the climb out of the Colorado River Canyon.