The innagural run of the 2018 edition of the Amtrak Ski Train heads towards Winter Park, and catches the light of first sunrise as it climbs away from Denver.

The BNSF 9100 series class unit leads a southbound coal drag through Larkspur, CO on the Joint Line.

BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming, follows the Bighorn River past steep rock walls into Sheep Canyon on the hot afternoon of June 23, 2016. Two EMD SD70MACs power the southbound train ... (more)

Getting close to the division point at Grand Junction,, the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr enters the “suburbs” at Palisade, Colorado.

Burlington Northern’s “Beer Train” switches cars on the steep interchange track with Coors Brewery Railroad to BN’s Golden branch at Golden, Colorado, on July 14, 1986. A portion of the hu... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty follows South Boulder Creek as it approaches Tolland, Colorado, on the late summer day of September 15, 2018.

The sun pops out as BNSF SD60M No. 1404 leads an SD70MAC and SD40-2 on this westbound manifest as it rounds the big sweeping curve outside of Keenesburg, Colorado, on December 3, 2018.

Moments after sunset, an eastbound empty BNSF coal train races east along farm fields and US-6 just outside of Hillrose, Colorado, on December 4, 2018.

Reflected in the Colorado River, the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr passes through scenic Debeque Canyon, Colorado.

A slow moving intermodal train grinds up the eastern slope of Goffs Hill as the morning sun rises over the eastern Mojave Desert on a warm September morning.

OMLX 9522 (GP40-2LW) gets ready to leave the Budweiser Brewery plant in Fort Collins, Colorado.

One of my favorite locations on the Seligman sub. The opportunity for this photo is very short when the sun it at its most Northern point in AZ. Here a nice looking KCS unit brings up the rear of... (more)

BNSF 4562 leads an early morning z train through Cherokee canyon towards Peach Springs, AZ in front of the photogenic "Music Mountains"

2018 Arizona saw a good amount of rain and monsoon storms. In early July the weather produced amazing skies as the eastbound auto train glinted behind storm clouds.

The westbound Rio Grande Zephyr is making track speed as it approaches Newcastle, Colorado.