Santa Fe’s CF&I local passes through Salt Creek Junction on its short journey from the yard in Pueblo, Colorado to the Colorado Fuel & Iron plant. By this time, the sprawling complex was largely... (more)

Santa Fe’s CF&I local passes the Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. Today’s train has twelve cars for the Colorado Fuel & Iron plant just south of this location.

An eastbound Santa Fe manifest exits the confines of Abo Canyon, New Mexico. The SD40-2 leader has an extended short hood, or “snoot”, to house Locotrol communications equipment. Locotrol was ... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal train with twenty-five TOFC cars emerges from Tunnel 5 between Cliff and Bealville, California.

Three thousand and two black horses move west high in the Rocky Mountains. Three thousand of them are in the form of a Rio Grande SD40T-2, leading a 56 car Craig Switcher at Hayden, Colorado.

Fully loaded, Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 departs the Energy Mine for Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee Plant in Denver. This crew will take the train as far as Phippsburg, where i... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 creeps along as its cars are flood loaded. The coal is from the Energy Mine at the end of the Energy Branch at the far reaches of the Denver & Salt Lake main ... (more)

With storms looming, Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 moves east on the Denver & Salt Lake main line near Milner, Colorado.

The ski resort at Steamboat Springs, Colorado looms in the distance as eastbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 passes between a Sperry car and the depot.

With 73 loads from the Energy Mine, eastbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702, passes a Sperry car and the station at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The train is bound for Public Service of Co... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 701, westbound empties bound for the Energy Mine, rolls between Oak Creek and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Three of the latest additions to the Rio Grande roster,... (more)

Identity Issues

Standing between two Conrail GP30’s of PRR and Reading origins, a former Frisco GP7 is at Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania for a little work. If the “Fris... (more)

Snow is in the air as Delaware & Hudson train OILC (Oak Island, New Jersey – Lacolle, Quebec) approaches the former Lehigh Valley main line in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Behind the locomotives is ... (more)

A three railroad, three builder lash up leads a northbound Delaware & Hudson Train through Lehighton, Pennsylvania. A Boston & Maine GP40-2 is assisted by a Maine Central U23B still in D&H lightni... (more)

On the last day of April, 1977, Delaware & Hudson’s bicentennial RS3m leads a long train east at Lehighton, Pennsylvania. At this point, the former Lehigh Valley yard site is still in pretty cle... (more)