Great Western Railway engine #9, called a saddle tank 'Dinky', sits in Sterling, Colorado. The engine ran at the sugar beet factory in the 1970's.
Roughly 100 years separate the manufacture date of these two engines. The saddle tank 'Dinky' worked the Great Western sugar beet factory and the BNSF ES44AC works hauling coal on the Brush Sub. ... (more)
A pair of BNSF coal trains wait for orders in a yard at Sterling, Colorado.
BNSF 5905 (ES44AC) waits for another coal train to pass before taking the main line and heading west from Sterling, Colorado.
A Union Pacific Relco Maintenance of Way train works on cleaning up old ties in Sterling, Colorado. The clean looking train was built less than a year ago.
BNSF 5905 (ES44AC) will lead a loaded coal train south through the yard in Sterling, Colorado right after a northbound train exits the yard with an empty coal train.
Coal is still king on the lines between sterling, Colorado and Denver. Here we see BNSF 6363 (ES44AC) shoving an empty coal track back to Nebraska as another loaded train waits for a green signal... (more)
The old and the new. BNSF 6114 (ES44AC) passes an 0-4-0 engine that was built in 1928 and on display next to the water tower in Sterling, Colorado.
Great Western Railway 2121 is a 0-4-0 tank engine built by Davenport in 1928. The Great Western sugar company operating a number of these engines well into the 1950's, shuffling sugar beets into ... (more)
UP 958400 is a new shoving engine (built by Relco in February of 2020) on a Maintenance of Way (MoW) train that was cleaning up old railroad ties in Sterling, Colorado.
BNSF 6215 (ES44AC) waits for a green signal in Sterling, Colorado to head west with a loaded coal train.
Canadian Pacific 8928 (ES44AC) sits idle in the BNSF yard in Sterling, Colorado until a broken rail can be fixed.
BNSF 6215 (ES44AC) waits for traffic to clear after a broken rail north of the BNSF Sterling Yard. It will take its load of coal later that day to Denver, Colorado.
An outbound empty coal train meets BNSF 9129 which will then throw the switch to enter the BNSF yard in Sterling, Colorado.
A pair of heavies get ready to enter the Sterling BNSF yard as soon as the empty coal clears the tracks.
