Rock Island U25B 218 and Alco FA 135 were probably discussing some of their latest runs and hoping for many more before their demise. The Alco has been re-equipped with EMD Blomberg trucks.

Should you ever want to complain about your working conditions, think of the employees who had to work in this pit in the days before EPA. Rock Island U25B 218, Alco FA 135 and EMD E8 645 awai... (more)

Two laborers hurry to finishing refueling Rock Island 40 East at Herington, Kansas — a poor man’s fueling facility on the ground, no pipes, no uprights.

Rock Island Geep 1330 leads its local over the manual CB&Q crossing on the outskirts of St.Joseph, Missouri for a customer probably waiting for his shipment in the insulated box car. October 22, ... (more)

With four F units and two Geeps, Rock Island’s 106 West has just returned to its own trackage and guns it out of Topeka, Ks. headed west on April 18, 1965.

There’s not much revenue on Rock Island’s eastbound Train 10, Corn Belt Rocket, originating across the river at Omaha, Nebr. and now leaving Council Bluffs, Iowa with only two coaches and an e... (more)

The rear of D&RGW 5382’s westbound train is still in the Continental Divide and Tennessee Pass summit tunnel as the train now begins its 3% decline at Mitchell, Colo. The train will drop almost... (more)

At 8,574-ft. elevation Fraser, Colo. competes with International Falls, Minn. often calling itself the coldest spot in the USA. D&RGW’s eastbound Train 100 has to climb 665-ft. more height as... (more)

D&RGW 3084 East skateboards through the snow at Plainview, Colo. headed for Denver another 25 miles and 1500-ft. lower in elevation.

West of Rollinsville, Colo., six SD motors of D&RGW usher Train 707, empty coal hoppers, back to mines on Oct. 10, 1986.

With six new EMD SD50’s charging up the mountain with a string of coal empties, D&RGW’s 5511 West has passed Rollinsville, Colo. and has about 7 miles before reaching Moffat Tunnel and diving ... (more)

Over U.P. trackage rights, BNSF 6852 West is about to crest the Continental Divide and plunge through 6.2-mile long Moffat Tunnel on Feb. 21, 2015. The premises are heavily monitored and remotel... (more)

Having passed through North America’s 4th longest tunnel (6.2 miles), apparently the brakeman was going back to check an engine problem. Inside Moffat Tunnel D&RGW 5515 East crested the highest... (more)

Through the last of three tunnels of 25 of them within a 10-mile stretch of track, at the Flatirons rock formations D&RGW’s 3129 East has 25 more miles to reach Denver, 1500-ft. lower in elevati... (more)

In the last light of January 9, 1990, Rio Grande’s 5411 East struggles to crest the Craig Branch summit at Toponas, Colo., headed for Denver. Two SD40-2T tunnel motors lead the way.