The Southwest Chief makes good time running south of Wagon Mound, New Mexico
The Southwest Chief leaves Wagon Mound, New Mexico behind and splits the semaphore signals at Levy.
The Southwest Chief runs towards Raton, New Mexico as it heads south from Trinidad, Colorado.
The BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado is active on this day. A cut of engines is moving into the yard as another pair are moving from the yard to the servicing facility for sand ... (more)
The California Zephyr runs through the trees at Tolland, Colorado as it heads to the Moffat Tunnel.
Amtrak engine 171 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr with no ditch lights through Keenesburg, Colorado.
CAGX 1134 (SW1200) gets ready to move a cut of hoppers from the grain facility in Commerce City, Colorado.
Cargill Grain's 1134 (SW1200) works the yard at the Commerce City Grain elevator north of Denver, Colorado.
It won't be long before the last semaphore signals are removed from Levy and Wagon Mound, New Mexico. These sentinels of the Southwest Chief are being replaced for conventional signal poles.
One of these is not like the others..... While the BNSF is busy repainting their older units in the Heritage III paint scheme (the 'Swoosh') there is one veteran still wearing its paint from 1974... (more)
A pink sunrise glints off the side of the California Zephyr as it splits the signals near Keenesburg, Colorado.
The California Zephyr runs in the freezing snow as it heads east through Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Union Pacific's Big Boy engineer Ed Dickens pilots the locomotive as it runs towards Omaha for the College Baseball World Series.
The fire burns in the belly of the beast. UP 844 (4-8-4) sits in Denver waiting to take the Cheyenne Frontier Days train back to Cheyenne.
UP 688 (GP38N) moves into the North Yard in Denver, Colorado to sort rolling stock.
