Granite Point

As part of the Durango and Silverton's 100th Anniversary of The K-28 Class, 473 and 476 were backdated to their 1950's appearance, and for the first time since t... (more)

D&RGW 473 storms through Granite Point with a long mixed train. Sister K-28 locomotive #476 is working as a mid-train helper to move this large fifteen car train upgrade to Silverton. This was a r... (more)

BNSF 8472 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train through the Black Forest trees at Larkspur, Colorado, passing a county Sheriff vehicle concealed to catch speeders going through town.

A BNSF Freight on the northbound Joint Line passes a BNSF Coal train waiting for a green signal on the Joint Line southbound track.

BNSF 7185 (ES44C4) leads a freight on the northbound Joint Line at Spruce, Colorado.

UP 5758 (ES44AC) runs solo through the signals in Denver, Colorado.

Led by Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 7977, UP’s MRONY (Salt Lake City’s Roper Yard to Denver’s North Yard manifest) freight drops downgrade through Eisele (formerly Clay), Colorado, on June 9,... (more)

Coal is still king on the Joint Line as triple DPU's shove a loaded coal through Monument, Colorado.

BNSF 9103 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train through Larkspur, Colorado on the Joint Line.

BNSF 8500 (SD70ACe) leads the beer train out of the Denver Yard and will head to the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado.

Storm clouds move in over Monument, Colorado as a BNSF coal train heads south on the Joint Line.

BNSF 8472 (SD70ACe) makes like an Alco and belches smoke in an effort to get a loaded coal train moving south on the Joint Line at Spruce, Colorado.

Riding in the cupola of the 0540 caboose as the first mixed train with a mid train helper to traverse the Silverton Branch since 1958 meet the sight of Pigeon and Turret Peaks on their way northbo... (more)

BNSF 2698 (GP39-3) joins other light power at the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.

BNSF 5664 (AC4400CW) leads a train towards Boulder, Colorado on the Front Range Sub, passing the cooling ponds of the shuttered Valmont Power Plant.