Waiting for permission to proceed is San Luis Rio Grande No. 459. Built for Amtrak as a F40PHR it was later rebuilt as a F40M-2F. I hope I have the information correct.
The spirit of the southwest is alive and well in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado, as seen by this festively painted mailbox perched on the fencepost. Despite that, we're still close enoug... (more)
This was somewhere around Alamosa, CO. I was vacationing in the Midwest and happen to spot this from a local road, maybe half a mile away. It was on a very rarely used segment of track, possibly a... (more)