The beginning and the end of an era on the Rio Grande: New EMD GP60 No. 3154 leads the CHOAT through Provo Yard on Aug. 18, 1990. D&RGW 3154-3156 are essentially Southern Pacific locomotives, buil... (more)

A early autumn edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train climbs out of Clay, Colorado, and approaches Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing on the afternoon of September 27, 1998. Three former Rio Grande G... (more)

The westbound Ski Train is rounding the Big Ten curve near Rocky as the train makes the 56 miles trip out of Denver to Winter Park Resort. This train was 14 passenger cars and could transports 750... (more)

A quad of EMD GP60s lead Southern Pacific's OADVF (Oakland, CA - Denver, CO, Forwarder) east through Utah Railway Junction in Price Canyon. The D&RGW 3154-3156 (delivered in May 1990) were the las... (more)

Joint Line bottleneck
Three trains are in view near Palmer Lake, Colorado, at a location know as “Sag” or Spruce. When the Santa Fe built its line between Colorado Springs and Denve... (more)

Flying the fallen flag
Union Pacific freight MDVRO approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on September 29, 1998. All three former Rio Grande GP60s are on the point, although t... (more)

One of three Rio Grande's 3 GP60s leads a manifest south at Colorado Springs under threatening skies. I am not exactly sure what the odd silver horizontal striping is but I think it is related to ... (more)

The Denver, CO, to Pueblo, CO, manifest train is stop at the yard in Colorado Springs to do some work on their way south. Today's train has 2 of the 3 Rio Grande GP 60's on the point. This train i... (more)

A westbound intermodal train rolls along the Colorado River through Yarmony on ex-SP rails. Anyone care for a game of volleyball in the middle of the Colorado River?

Union Pacific sent DRGW 3154 and 3155 on wreck clean-up train. DPU problem had empty coal hopper straight line west of Cresent Siding.