On April 14, 2001, a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight is led by Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5345 as it pops out of the canyon into Pinecliffe, Colorado. Note that the uni... (more)

Having been allowed to take some pictures of the DRGW Grand Junction Yard visiting my mother, I captured this scene on a cold frosty morning before the sun melted the frost all over.

A westbound Rio Grande freight led by EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5370, passes the site of Keeldar siding on the eastern approach to Tennessee Pass near Leadville on May 24, 1991. A sparkli... (more)

It's a cold late winter morning in downtown Salt Lake City. The sun has not even risen above the peaks of the Wasatch Range to the east. The D&RGW train #18 is ready to leave the depot on it's day... (more)

Eastbound Train 126 behind a GP40-2 meets a westbound 775 coal train at Gilluly on the 2% grade to Soldier Summit. Scanned from a color print.

Fresh from Pullman-Standard’s Butler, Pennsylvania plant, one of a string of Rio Grande covered hoppers rolls through Conrail’s yard in Allentown. I don’t know what routing sent the cars eas... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr spends the night at Grand Junction, Colorado before making its last ever run to Denver. The Thistle mudslide, which severed the Rio Grande main line over the Wasatch M... (more)

Waiting for its swan song, the Rio Grande Zephyr cools its heels at Grand Junction, Colorado before making its last ever run to Denver. Normally the train would be in the Wasatch at this ti... (more)

More orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5345 and GP40-2 3128 line up with SOO SD40-2 758. A KCS switcher p... (more)

Orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5356 lines up with a trio of MILW GP40s now under Soo Line ownership. T... (more)

A heavy snow coats a pair of Denver & Rio Grande Western engines sitting in the yard of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. D&RGW 683 (2-8-0) was built in 1890 by the Baldwin Locomo... (more)

A Grande View! Rio Grande power dominates this January 2000 elevated view of the yard at Helper, UT. UP's LJP45 "Dirt Train" local has just arrived back in town and is seen passing a few ... (more)

The westbound UP "dirt train" has paused at Wash (just east of Wellington, UT) to pick up a single empty hopper from the small, mostly unused yard there. I assume this was a bad order c... (more)

Three Rio Grande tunnel motors lead the "dirt train" east along UP's Green River Sub just west of Wellington, UT. About 10 miles further east at Mounds the train will be routed onto the... (more)

A westbound train departs Miniturn behind four Rio Grande locomotives.