The sky blue color of an Oregon Steel Mills Thrall gondolas shows the abuse that one expects from a car used to haul either scrap steel or finished products from the famous steel mill in Pueblo.

Loads of lumber from the northwest make up the head end of the H-PASGAL as traverses its way around the Pueblo yard while the sky looks like it will soon bring some rain upon this mill town.

With an ominous dark sky overhead, the former ATSF 669 sits tied down at the north end of the Pueblo yard as it waits for new crew to relieve the one that just brought this freight train in.

Today’s “Hill Cut” local patiently waits in the yard for its day to begin while a freight train comes to a stop in the background as it prepares to tie down.

Brand New
A three pack of newly assembled TTX boxcars from the Gunderson Concarril plant in Mexico built in June of 2013 make what is most likely their first run into the Centennial S... (more)

Beginning in 1889 and finally completed in 1890, the Pueblo Union Depot was constructed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and built to accommodate the five railroads that served Pueblo at that... (more)

After receiving some quality improvements at the Liberty Railway Services plant, this Conrail auto rack will soon head back i... (more)

Factory Fresh
Just out of the rolling mill at Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, 80 foot long pieces of 115 pound rail make their way to the BNSF yard for distribution across the USA.

The sun rises for another day a rail traffic along the former Santa Fe.

A pair EMD AC radio units provide today’s distributed power for this load of coal as they trek across the barren landscape seen in southern Colorado.

Removing the frog is a pretty good way letting people know that a switch is permanently out of service.

Even after its most recent repainting in August of 1990, the vibrant billboard letting of Santa Fe painted on the long hood of this SD40-2 still stands out quite nicely against the rusting effects... (more)

After another day serving the famous CF&I rail mill, local 101 comes back into town while passing by what remains of the Nuckolls Packing Plant. This plant used to see lots of railroad service fr... (more)

Just as it occurred the day before, another CSX locomotive heads a northbound mixed freight train across the Arkansas River f... (more)

Yard job 102 continues to shove on its cut of cars into track 5 while three tracks over in 8 the DENKCK waits for a crew come on duty and move the train closer to Kansas City.