A colorful consist comprised of four different paint schemes prepares to embark on a journey over the famed Joint Line to Denver after a brief stop at Pueblo Junction waiting for a signal.

Four leased Oakway SD60s lead a southbound BN coal train out of Pueblo, Colo. at Pueblo Jct. where main lines go four directions. SD60 9057 is entering the southward main track to Trinidad; the... (more)

A matched set of Santa Fe SD40-2 locomotives do the honors of pulling the second shift “hill cut” as they prepare to depart the former Santa Fe yard and work the Evraz mill south of here.

A pair of Santa Fe EMD units work alongside each other in Pueblo today as the 101 local switches cars around before departing for its customers later this morning.

late afternoon sun "glints" off southbound Denver to Belen at Pueblo Jct in Pueblo, CO

Switch brooms and a cigar band logo on the nose, this is railroading.

The sky blue color of an Oregon Steel Mills Thrall gondolas shows the abuse that one expects from a car used to haul either scrap steel or finished products from the famous steel mill in Pueblo.

Loads of lumber from the northwest make up the head end of the H-PASGAL as traverses its way around the Pueblo yard while the sky looks like it will soon bring some rain upon this mill town.

With an ominous dark sky overhead, the former ATSF 669 sits tied down at the north end of the Pueblo yard as it waits for new crew to relieve the one that just brought this freight train in.

Today’s “Hill Cut” local patiently waits in the yard for its day to begin while a freight train comes to a stop in the background as it prepares to tie down.

Brand New
A three pack of newly assembled TTX boxcars from the Gunderson Concarril plant in Mexico built in June of 2013 make what is most likely their first run into the Centennial S... (more)

Beginning in 1889 and finally completed in 1890, the Pueblo Union Depot was constructed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and built to accommodate the five railroads that served Pueblo at that... (more)

After receiving some quality improvements at the Liberty Railway Services plant, this Conrail auto rack will soon head back i... (more)

Factory Fresh
Just out of the rolling mill at Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, 80 foot long pieces of 115 pound rail make their way to the BNSF yard for distribution across the USA.

The sun rises for another day a rail traffic along the former Santa Fe.