A pair EMD AC radio units provide today’s distributed power for this load of coal as they trek across the barren landscape seen in southern Colorado.

Removing the frog is a pretty good way letting people know that a switch is permanently out of service.

Even after its most recent repainting in August of 1990, the vibrant billboard letting of Santa Fe painted on the long hood of this SD40-2 still stands out quite nicely against the rusting effects... (more)

After another day serving the famous CF&I rail mill, local 101 comes back into town while passing by what remains of the Nuckolls Packing Plant. This plant used to see lots of railroad service fr... (more)

Just as it occurred the day before, another CSX locomotive heads a northbound mixed freight train across the Arkansas River f... (more)

Yard job 102 continues to shove on its cut of cars into track 5 while three tracks over in 8 the DENKCK waits for a crew come on duty and move the train closer to Kansas City.

You're aboard Santa Fe Train 201 leaving Pueblo, Colo., en route Denver on the Joint Line, and looking out the windshield of the E unit between the engineer's shoulder and his speedometer you noti... (more)

With nice morning storm light in the background, a BNSF freight train patiently sits tied down on a section of the former MoPac mainline which today serves as the Baxter Siding.

End of an Era
Even though the CF&I had already been purchased by Oregon Steel Mills years earlier in 1992, the rails being rolled in the mill after the acquisition date would still ha... (more)

A trio of GE Dash 9-44CW locomotives pulls today’s DENKCK over the Fountain Creek and through Pueblo Junction as the train throttles up for the run to KC.

A visually exciting consist with various locomotive paint schemes including a CSX visitor heads up the BNSF mainline out of Pueblo for an afternoon trek across the Joint Line.

While it still retains the white diagonal stripes from its days on the Burlington Northern and Great Western Railway, this 1950 built SW7 now finds itself working for Liberty Railway Services as i... (more)

Two fallen symbols of the past are serendipitously found side by side on an open top hopper in Pueblo as this product from Pullman Standard in 1976 still proudly displays its Butler built PS logo ... (more)

A new era in Amtrak motive power is quickly approaching, as demonstrated during a media day to showcase the testing of the new Siemens USA-built "American Cities Sprinter" ACS-64. Once debuted on ... (more)

A new era in Amtrak motive power is quickly approaching, as demonstrated during a media day to showcase the testing of the new Siemens USA-built "American Cities Sprinter" ACS-64. Once debuted on ... (more)