Passing through Trinchera, CO on a quiet Saturday morning. Spanish Peak looms 80 miles away on the horizon.

The Sunday Shakespeare Express is being piloted by the Rood Ashton Hall. The driver watches as a train from London, terminating here in S-u-A, loads. After departing, the classy steamer will mov... (more)

Almost on time, and running at 79 or 89 mph (I'm unsure, but it was at least 79, as we tried unsuccessfully to make ground on it after shooting), the Southwest Chief rips toward Trinidad and Rato... (more)

Lead units (distance) and DPUs (nearby) are about a mile apart. They work their way up and down the grades via turns, including several horseshoe curves, between Des Moines, NM and Trinidad, CO.

Out of the southern bore of Hermosa Tunnels, this young GEVO is picking up the pace as more of its train crests the summit of the Harriman Line at Dale Junction.

DPUs at the back of coal empties bound for Wyoming are having no problem holding up the back of the train, as this train rolls by the quiet, lightly-populated ranching town of Trinchera, Colorado.... (more)

Winding down the curves of Trinchera Pass, approaching the tiny town of Trinchera, en route to Trindad and the next crew change.

One of UPs newest locomotives, just a couple years old, 7914 and two SD70M cousins are having no problem with this stack train.

After a high-speed jaunt across southern Colorado from La Junta to Trinidad, and a low-speed traverse of Raton Pass south of Trinidad, the westbound Southwest Chief cools its heels as passe... (more)

Westbound containers crest the Harriman Line, moving back on to the Overland Route at Dale Junction.

Under a big sky, three big UP units march up Sherman Hill like Hannibal's elephants over the Alps. Over the small hill visible upper right, the old (very old) alignment to the long-abandon... (more)

UP 8092 works the back of a mixed freight at sunset on the Overland Route. The train has recently come up the Harriman Line, cresting at Dale Junction, and is moving to the double-tracked high li... (more)

Hi priority stacks from the west coast.

Amtrak 145/154 lead the westbound Southwest Chief, rolling off Raton Pass on approach to Raton, NM, before hitting the racetrack that will take these passengers west to Los Angeles.

Directional running in the sparse southern Colorado rolling plains. A pair of dedicated DPUs work the back half of empty coal through the continual curves of Trinchera Pass en route to a refill i... (more)