Join us at Alaska Railfanning! ARR 4013 leads one of the last gravel trains of the 2012 season south... (more)

Baretables work north through Palmer Puddles behind a pair of Dash 9s.

With a malfunctioning ATCS and my scanner still in Alaska, it was one of those days where the best course of action was to just pick a spot and wait. After helplessly waiting for a couple of hour... (more)

Coal empties work north past the formerly iconic Palmer Lake. It's been an extremely dry summer along the Front Range, so dry that Palmer Lake has evaporated into nothing more than a few puddles ... (more)

All three BNSF heritage/merger schemes are present on this northbound manifest as it works through the Greenland Open Space. It's interesting to note that the H1 paint seems to have held up the b... (more)

Heritage hoppers work south into Colorado Springs. These are among my favorite trains on the Joint Line because they're nothing but old, steel Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Burlington Northern... (more)

Empty cement hoppers work their way down the grade out of Palmer Lake.

Three generations of GE locomotives power this colorful manifest south through Monument.

UP coal works south past the empty parking lot of Woodmen Valley Chapel. This is Black Thunder Mine, WY to Cochise, AZ is an unusual move to see on the Joint Line. The last time I caught a GE en... (more)

BNSF 9816, with its unique white number boards, leads an empty coal train through Palmer Lake. I'm not sure how long the Crème and Greens are going to be around, so I'm glad I was able to snag o... (more)

The ACe-end of a coal empty works its way north to meet southbound Union Pacific coal at Monument. BNSF typically runs their coal trains in a 2x2 set up, but this one was sporting a lone DPU.

And here I thought my days in Colorado were done! Not quite. I'm in the Lower 48 on a business trip so when the opportunity presented itself, I figured I'd hit up my old stomping grounds to see ... (more)

The Glacier Discovery drifts over Bird Creek as it runs north toward Anchorage. The tide was out on the Turnagain Arm, and if you look closely, you can see a couple of fisherman in the creek purs... (more)

ARR 3006 spends a lonely but gorgeous summer evening on the south side of the Alaska Railroad's diesel shop. Built as the class unit of this order of GP40-2s in April of 1975, this Geep is one of... (more)

Sunny skies greet the southbound Denali Star as it works its way through Elmendorf AFB.