While skiers enjoy the slopes of Winter Park, the Rio Grande Ski Train is being turned on the wye at Tabernash, Colorado, then will go east to the next siding at Fraser until it is time to head ba... (more)

8678 and Cab 4759 at Woodford

A pair of Southern Pacific GEs bracket an EMD switcher on a mixed freight moving through Joliet. Paul Meyer photo.

A trio of Cotton Belt B40-8s moves engine lite on the IHB in Dolton. Tom Golden photo.

Climbing toward Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Clay, Colorado, is the Rio Grande Ski Train on the morning of March 3, 2006.

West coal train comes through Lancaster, CA

A four-pack of Southern Pacific GEs passes under the signals at Joliet Union Station. Tom Golden photo.

Specially painted SP SD40R 7347 for the 1984 summer Olympic games in Los Angeles. This unit still dressed in Olympic paint livery was wrecked/scraped 8/85 at Westminster, Colorado while on the Bu... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train at mile 22.6 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on December 1, 2002. The trai... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train curves through Edwards, Colorado, on September 5, 1995. Located on the Tennessee Pass route, the town of Edwards is about eleven miles west of Minturn in t... (more)

It wasn't unusual for new SP power to pass through Silvis on it's way west. This GP40X caught my eye one day as I was headed home from work at the Silvis shop. I had my camera with me however the... (more)

On the morning of July 26, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train passes through the signals on the east side of the town of Haswell, Colorado. SP used the Rio Grande route over Tennessee Pass and th... (more)

Emerging from the wooden snowshed at Norden.

As the dreaded Y2K approaches, a Union Pacific intermodal train heads east away from civilization, which will collapse into chaos just two days hence! Southern Pacific SD40M-2 8666 leads this tra... (more)

The westbound UP "dirt train" has paused at Wash (just east of Wellington, UT) to pick up a single empty hopper from the small, mostly unused yard there. I assume this was a bad order c... (more)