Orange power is everywhere this morning making the lone Cascade green unit stand out that much more. Three SD40's working the yard(s) are moving to take a bad ordered flat car to the maintenance b... (more)

After setting a bad ordered flat car off at maintenance, the power for the yard returns to building trains. Directly above 1719, the "Hill Cut" job that runs to Evraz Steel and the Vestas plant is... (more)

Making quick time up the grade with this light manifest, the crew is adorned in Denver Bronco's gear as they would hope for the best. However, things didn't turn out so great when Tom Brady defeat... (more)

High atop Spruce Mtn. we observe another coal load making its way up the grade to Palmer lake.

A Union Pacific unit heads up a priority freight from Amarillo Texas to Denver CO as it slices through the openness of the Green Land Open Space.

Pushing hard on the tail end of a empty through some fall colors in Colorado Springs. All of this color would soon be lost, as the first freeze would come just hours later.

This is the back up locomotive put here by BNSF so assist a stalled coal train on the climb to Palmer Lake if needed.

The golden leafs of aspen trees fill the valley where the locomotives once painted in their honor once roared. Today a big GE wearing a similar color leads a hefty coal train safely out of the Col... (more)

The golden leafs of aspen trees fill the valley where the locomotives once painted in their honor once roared. Today a big GE wearing a similar color leads empty coal hoppers back to Colorado mine... (more)

Plenty of orange horses ready to run.

After coming off the Front Range Sub, this freight from Laurel MT, to Denver is working itself over to the BNSF yard after passing the UP yard.

A BNSF freight with plenty of horsepower flies up the grade past some recently replaced ties awaiting disposal.

The distinct snout of a snoot.

The Rock and Rail has picked up its cars from BNSF/UP and is now thumping along at a solid 40mph across the arid landscape of Colorado in a very dry summer.

Some older BNSF EMD's slide into town with a short train moving towards a Lime facility to spot empty's and pick up some loads before tying down in the same yard for a return trip to Denver early ... (more)