A relatively new GEVO leads an ACe as they sweep through Palmer Lake and start their descent down the south side of the Palmer Divide.

The kids go back to skating once the power passes by, but mom and dad take a moment to enjoy the "peace and quiet" of a loaded coal train as it works its way south through Palmer Lake behind a pai... (more)

Southbound coal loads swing into the Air Force Academy and under the North Gate Bridge as things start to cloud up to the north.

An ACe splices two ES44ACs as coal loads cruise downhill into Colorado Springs.

BNSF 6125 leads current generation power just below Monument with a load of coal bound for points south.

With an additional unit on the head end along with the usual two units on the rear, this southbound coal train is seemingly well above the snail's pace one usually sees a coal train doing here and... (more)

My last shot of the decade shows a coal empty being led by two different generations of coal power along a frozen Palmer Lake. A weathered BNSF 8818 is entering its third decade of service, and u... (more)

AMTX coal struggles up the grade in Greenland behind a late-1990s power duo. I hope when Uncle Warren takes over he opens up the checkbook and puts the paint shops to work Swoosh'ing these all-to... (more)

Beginning on December 27, the Ski Train will once again return to Denver's Union Station. The San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad worked tirelessly with Amtrak, Union Pacific, the city of Denver, and ... (more)

Double Resurrection! First, Rio Grande speed lettering once again adorns the long hood of 6-axle power in the form of recently acquired SD90MACs from CITX. Second, the annual Ski T... (more)

Black diamonds struggle south through Greenland as the distant twin buttes of Raspberry Butte and Monkey Face stand watch.

Faded EMD power leads the way on southbound coal as it works its way up the hill entering Larkspur.

As the second significant early season snow storm is spitting its final few flakes along the front range, UP 1988 leads a Denver, CO - Dalhart, TX special just south of Monument. More info at more)

Remember when seeing an ex-BN SD40-2 leading a train seemed routine and kinda dull? Well, the times they have changed because shots like this are rare if not impossible anymore. Snaking stacks r... (more)

More than a month before BNSF would roster its first SD70ACe, the original BNSF 9284 and two sister SD60s lead an Ardoch coal empty off the Glasston sub. Less than four years later, the ACe would... (more)