After stopping a Greeley for a "water" stop, Big Boy 4014 begins the last leg of its trip to Cheyenne as it passes through the farm fields of Greeley.

Charging hard around the curve of Brighton, UP 4014 heads north along the Greeley Sub, towards Cheyenne, with a nine car passenger special.

UP's Big Boy steam locomotive #4014 leads a nine passenger special from Denver, CO back to the Big Boy's home of Cheyenne, WY as it passes through Platteville.

After waiting for a coal train to come off of the South Morrill Sub, UP's North Platte, NE to Roper (Salt Lake City), UT manifest begins to notch up to speed as it'll make a night time run across ... (more)

As the sun starts to fade below the horizon, UP 2655 leads a westbound double empty coal train into the crew changing location of North Platte as the train crosses over the Platte River.

A double empty coal train heads west, back to the mines of Wyoming's Powder River Basin, as it races out of the small town of Gothenburg.

UP's MSANP moves along the Nebraska farmland near Grant as the crew heads west for North Platte.

A loaded sand train, bound for Ft. Collins, rolls through the undulating territory of Boulder with an EMD leader pulling the 14,000 ton train.

BNSF 9256 leads a loaded grain train for St. Joseph, MO starts to head east after waiting for an eastbound empty coal train to pass near Forest City.

An eastbound coal load traverse the hogbacks of BNSF's Ravenna Sub near the town of Utica as the late summer sets below Nebraska's farmlands.

An empty BNSF coal train races westward towards Ravenna, NE as it crosses over Union Pacific's Overland Route at Grand Island. In the background, a UP local sits tied down waiting for the crew's n... (more)

A loaded sand train for Speer, WY slowly moves through the street running section of Longmont on a pleasant Thursday afternoon.

A pair of EMD motors, one a former BN executive painted MAC, shove the rear of an empty coal train over the Palmer Divide as it heads back towards the mines along the Powder River Basin.

A pair of EMDs hustle an empty coal train through the farmer fields of Pinon, CO with the moon rising on the setting sky above.

The morning sun starts peak over the horizon as a Denver, CO to Los Angeles, CA Q-train heads west at Truxton with Cherokee Point looming in the background. While this train is running under the s... (more)