Final Curtain

After 143 years of near continuous use of coal-burning power on the Silverton Branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, on the 23rd of March 2024. The final r... (more)

The esteemed Conductor, Brad Swartzwelter, of the Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train, is retiring from Amtrak after 30 years of service, and will make his last WPE ride on the 31st of March on... (more)

On March 20, 1949, the first run of the original California Zephyr departed Chicago, Illinois, bound for the west coast. A 75th anniversary run of the westbound California Zephyr, Amtrak’s train... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 174 has been repainted in Phase VII colors and leads the Winter Park Express ski train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 21, 2024.

Running a 35 minutes behind the California Zephyr is Amtrak’s eastbound Winter Park Express ski train, returning from Winter Park, and has just exited Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, at 6:27 p.... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 1 at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, late in the afternoon of March 22, 2024. Leading the train is recently-repainted GE P42DC No. 82... (more)

Amtrak engine #174 (P42DC) in the Phase VII paint scheme runs toward Plainview, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Amtrak engine #82 (P42DC) is one of a few P42's painted in the new Phase VII scheme. Here it is leading the California Zephyr through Plainview as it heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

UP 6318 (AC4400CW) is one of three remaining active Southern Pacific painted units running patched for the Union Pacific. Here it runs down from Tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.

Sporting one of the best paint schemes to grace an engine, UP 1943 (SD70ACe) leads an oil can train through Leyden, Colorado as it heads towards the Colorado Rockies.

Snow is falling at Denver's Union Station as RTD commuter train #4002 (Hyundai Eagle P3) passes the Winter Park Express Ski Train and heads for Arvada, Colorado.

Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train runs through four feet of snow at Crescent Colorado as it heads up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Four feet of snow has fallen at Crescent, Colorado as a pair of Norfolk Southern ponies shove a loaded oil can train towards Denver on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

UPY 625 (GP15-1) sports a shark mouth on the pilot as it works sorting cars in the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

UP 8009 (ES44AC) muscles an oil can train through dense fog at Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.