The Big Boy at C&S Junction!

Passing the signal bridge near Pecos in Denver, #4014 is preparing to reverse into North Yard for the night. Overcast skies give clue to the blizz... (more)

The Valley of the Giants

Westbound into the sunset late in the summer the evening sun will fill this valley at East Portal on the Moffat Sub. Tailings below me from an abando... (more)

Fall in the Mountains

Winter has left an overnight treat on this late Fall day on the Moffat Road near the Great Divide. A classic shot taken as low as possible to avoid obsc... (more)

Fresh heavy snow flocks the entire region to the Great Divide on this early Winter day. Eastbound MGJNY with #7082 on the point heavy in lumber and building supplies for Denver from the Pacific ... (more)

A long Union Pacific coal train makes its way around Big Ten Curve as it drops down the 2% grade while rounding the wide 280 degree curve.

The sun briefly pokes out of the clouds as UP 8705 leads the Herzog Ballast train up and out of Coal Creek Canyon while laying new ballast for the tracks.

After being pounded by a thunderstorm, the sun returns along the Rocky Mountains as the CWEMS9-12 snakes around Coal Creek Canyon by Blue Mountain Rd.

UP AC4400CW #5989 begins its descent down the mountains leading the CWEMS9-12 out of Tolland Siding and along South Boulder Creek.

On a gorgeous summer afternoon, Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8541 leads the North Yard (Denver)-Phippsburg, Colorado manifest west up the 2-percent grade in the canyon east of Tolland, Colorado on Ju... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train crosses South Boulder Creek on a wood trestle just east of Tolland, Colorado, on August 25, 2001.

The sun peeks out behind a cloud as coal empties from the Public Service Company of Colorado gets ready to depart Phippsburg, Colorado on October 1, 2016. The crew just finished adding their mid-t... (more)

Scale is everything... Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5468 races along CO-HWY 131 at 50 MPH with Xcel Energy coal empties from the Public Service Company as it scoots west by the towering Fing... (more)

Two ES44AC's and two SD70ACe/AH's lead coal empties up the 2-percent grade through Crater Loops near Volcano, Colorado along UP's Craig Branch on October 1, 2016.

Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 and a standard UP ES44AC bring up the rear of Xcel Energy coal empties as the train scoots west through the magnificent scenery of the high country near Hot Sulphur ... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 brings up the rear of Public Service of Colorado coal empties as the train races by Finger Rock near Yampa, Colorado along UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision/Craig Branc... (more)