Steamscape: Windy Point from Perry's Pond. On a late summer afternoon, D&RGW 463 drifts down the 4% grade below Windy Point, passing the small beaver pond that has informally been named for... (more)

The sun peeks out behind a cloud as coal empties from the Public Service Company of Colorado gets ready to depart Phippsburg, Colorado on October 1, 2016. The crew just finished adding their mid-t... (more)

A pair of DPUs push a manifest freight up the west slope of Soldier Summit.

A beautiful pastel sky follows the setting sun at Logan Hill, Wyoming, on July 2, 2016, as a BNSF coal train is trailed by two DPUs as it hurries northbound with another set of empties for loading... (more)

Scale is everything... Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5468 races along CO-HWY 131 at 50 MPH with Xcel Energy coal empties from the Public Service Company as it scoots west by the towering Fing... (more)

A 7 hour late Amtrak #6 is running along the base of Utah's imposing Book Cliffs. This ex. D&RGW trackage follows these cliffs for 200 miles from Helper, Utah to Palisade, Colorado. It's the longe... (more)

D&SNG K-28 No.473 pulls the first section of todays Durango to Silverton excursion trains. Low clouds and steam merge in the morning.

UP 7956 leads the westbound K-G1CI near Henefer, Utah. I-84 parallels most of the mainline from Henefer to Ogden.

High atop a rock we get a birds eye view of train C-BTMCOB0-81A heading around the horseshoe curve, The head end is on the left rounding the curve at Breezy Point as the Helper set with the DPU's ... (more)

Two ES44AC's and two SD70ACe/AH's lead coal empties up the 2-percent grade through Crater Loops near Volcano, Colorado along UP's Craig Branch on October 1, 2016.

Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 and a standard UP ES44AC bring up the rear of Xcel Energy coal empties as the train scoots west through the magnificent scenery of the high country near Hot Sulphur ... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 brings up the rear of Public Service of Colorado coal empties as the train races by Finger Rock near Yampa, Colorado along UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision/Craig Branc... (more)

With the first snow of Autumn on the mountains, D&SNG Baldwin K-36 No. 486 exits the gorge into the Animas Valley and Silverton.

A westbound BNSF manifest filled out with large cuts of heavy coil steel moves up the steep 2% grade in Coal Creek Canyon. The train is about to punch into Tunnel One and turn north for its cliff... (more)

Steamscape: Tanglefoot Curve. A Denver & Rio Grande Western freight runs around the Tanglefoot Curve and it runs the last mile of its trek to Cumbres Pass. The road engine this days is DRG... (more)