From the early days of my dad's railfanning. DD35A 82, DD35B 76B ,and a GP35 are heading eastbound up Weber Canyon. Tom Ellis photo.

Just when the dirt road through the Colorado river gorge reached again the edge of the canyon, this UP mixed freight came along, together with the only sunshine spot of the day! Leading are AC4400... (more)

Early Union Pacific locomotive consists on Colorado’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel line could be colorful as seen on April 2, 2001. Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 leads UP and Southern Pacif... (more)

Be Specific—ship “Union Pacific”
A lone horse pretty much ignores an eastbound Union Pacific stack train as it speeds through Pixley, Wyoming, on the railroad’s Pocatello Subdiv... (more)

UP 8942 in the lead of a long and heavy WB manifest as it passes downgrade over the Cienega Creek bridge

As time marches on, the railroads have worked hard sterilizing their mainlines by replacing or tearing down history along the right of ways. From signals, to buildings, to signs, as each year pass... (more)

The final cars are being loaded with coal at the West Elk loadout at the end of the former DRGW North Fork branch in Somorset, Colorado

One of the hottest trains on the line at that point in time, Canal St. (Chgo.) to Portland symbol CSPDZ, roars through rural Big Springs, NE on a late winter afternoon.

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk performs a photo runby at Madras on a fall morning in 1995. Central Oregon's iconic Three Sisters mountains can be seen in the distance.

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk is returning to Portland from Bend in fall 1995. This spot at the confluence of the White River is the only place in the Deschutes River Canyon where the peak of M... (more)

A pair of freights claw their way up the 2.2% grades approaching Cajon Pass as they leave San Bernardino behind on a crystal-clear spring day. On the left, on Santa Fe’s First District, is a Un... (more)

Fresh heavy snow flocks the entire region to the Great Divide on this early Winter day. Eastbound MGJNY with #7082 on the point heavy in lumber and building supplies for Denver from the Pacific ... (more)

Fall and Winter in the High Country

Fall color mingles with fresh snow along the picturesque curve over South Boulder Creek east of Tolland, CO. The Great Divide is majesti... (more)

With Southern Pacific inspired heritage colors leading the charge a westbound manifest makes its way across the Sidney Subdivision at Point of Rocks, Nebraska.

Beyond the town of Rock River, in the distance, one can see eastbounds approaching from about 9 miles out toward Wilcox from this cut in the Wyoming hills near the old station of Harper. The 7327 ... (more)