Looks like Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3012 is in the shop for a little Alaska TLC. Alaska Railroad has a fully equipped shop that can handle just about everything the railroad can throw at it with the... (more)

5 Rio Grande units, albeit the third unit is Rio Grande 5399 disguised in SP paint, move a manifest west across Rio Grande's former Denver to Salt Lake City mainline. It was rare to see this many ... (more)

Former Conrail GP40 now repainted as Rio Grande 3151 leads a manifest through Castle Rock. The hill in the back ground is Castle Rock. Interestingly these former Conrail units never received Gyra-... (more)

Rio Grande SD50 5501 has just exited the tunnel underneath Billies Mountain near the former town of Thistle. This are on the Rio Grande is one of my favorites and I have some great memories here.

For a while after the UP merger it was possible to catch solid Rio Grande power on the manifests between Roper and North Yard. I made the trip out to photograph these trains as often as I could. H... (more)

In the last rays of sunshine a BNSF trackage rights train heads across the Utah Desert with the dramatic Book Cliffs standing watch in the background.

I was fortunate to hear that UP was going to head out on the former Mopac east of Pueblo to retrieve some stored autoracks. After spending a couple of hours putting their train together they heade... (more)

I was fortunate to hear that UP was going to head out on the former Mopac east of Pueblo to retrieve some stored autoracks. After spending a couple of hours putting their train together they heade... (more)

A funny thing happened on the way to shoot a train on the former Mopac east of Pueblo, CO. I was just a few minutes behind this train that piled up 32 loaded hoppers bound for the power plant at S... (more)

Two LMX units bracket a GP60B as they crest the Palmer Divide enroute to Denver. Today this scene is no longer possible as the LMX units have been sold off and the red barn has been torn down.

British Columbia 6-motor Alcos lead an SD40-2 south with a train heavy with the forest products of British Columbia. Cut in about 90 cars back are cabless remote units.

A UP coal train exits Moffat tunnel at East Portal, CO on a nice summer day. I am standing on the former D&SL Rollins Pass road bed for this view.

A UP coal load having exited the Moffat Tunnel winds its way down the hill between East Portal and Tolland on the former Rio Grande Denver-Salt Lake mainline.

Sometimes things just work out. I drove to Flagstaff to take care of some business on a Thursday. A friend of mine took the Chief from LA to Winslow where I picked him up on Friday morning. Our go... (more)

Wandering around the bottoms of Kansas City was a great way to spend an afternoon. You never knew what would show up. Case in point is this two F45s surround a cabless B30-7AB in effect an ABA con... (more)