Live to Fight Another Day

The battle for the mountain was fought hard on this day, stopped by ice, tomorrow may bring victory. OY is slowly returning home after a day of ... (more)

Storm Light at Coal Creek

That terrific storm light in the early spring along the cliffs of Coal Creek back light an ascending oil can into the last curve before heading ... (more)

Bosler Highball

High stepping around the grade and tangent north of the Laramie River GSSNTU-25 Loaded Grain train (Grain-Shuttle-Shelton, NE-Tulare, CA) is at track spee... (more)

Spring on the Sherman Highlands

MNPMLB-25 (Manifest-N. Platte-Mira Loma, CA) with UP 8215 leads past the snow fences deep in the Sherman Highlands between Dale and Hermos... (more)

Last Light at Tie

UP 3076 leads ZSCG2-27 (Priority Intermodal-Salt Lake City-Global 2, IL) under the signal bridge and past Hermosa Road at track speed in the very last... (more)

Blue Mountain Magic

Spring thunderstorms batter the high plains with a characteristic clearing along the Flatiron Range near Coal Creek.

Storming Through the Meadows

Track speed on the high mountain meadows east of Rocky, Colorado Amtrak 6 is ducking below a rapidly developing severe thunderstorm cell abou... (more)

Kane Creek Geology

In the land of the Arches one might get the impression from the geology surrounding the inbound potash local of the origins of these mythical formation... (more)

Dedicated to the Wind

A special move with Vestas turbine generators zig zags through Spruce past Spruce Mountain near the Palmer Divide. Shot on Mavic Pro 2.

Threading Through the Gold

Fall color glows in the valley at Tolland which plays host to an empty coal bucket moving west swiftly towards the Great Divide.

Sunset in Grande Gold

The last of the direct sun at East Portal highlights a matched colorful scene of Fall vibrancy of Rio Grande gold and yellow along the Moffat Road. ... (more)

In the Gun Barrel

BNSF 8383 is down grade at east Tolland under the Giants Ladder of the original Rollins Pass line with heavy sand for the robust fracking business along... (more)

Buck Wheat in the Pastures

Slowly working up the Lafayette branch through the open pastures of rural Boulder County with the Lafayette switch affectionately called the Bu... (more)

On the Turntable

Moving off the turntable, DRGW 346 steams up the entire pit and area with its own weather system. Heavy snow swirls in the headlight chilling the photogr... (more)

346 in Snow

The heavy snow has just begun to fall as the Colorado Railroad Museum finishes the day’s operations with the venerable Denver & Rio Grande Western 346. A fe... (more)