A visitor helps her kids into the cab of Rio Grande Southern #74 (2-8-0), which was built by the Brooks Locomotive Works of Dunkirk, NY in 1898 for the Colorado & North Western Railroad. It was l... (more)
The Colorado Railroad Museum’s Colorado & Southern Rotary Steam Snow Plow #99201 was built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works in 1899. The plow was fitted with standard gauge trucks and ... (more)
A sucker hole of sunlight shines on this loaded Boeing car bound for Seattle for final assembly as it passes the Front Range at Colorado Springs on the Joint Line.
Freezing fog and light snow blankets Plainview, Colorado as the Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train exits Tunnel #1 on its way into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
The California Zephyr rounds the corner at the base of Blue Mountain and will enter Coal Creek Canyon.
UP 7104 (AC4400CW) leads an oil can train through Big Ten Curve as it heads down the Moffat Tunnel Sub towards Denver, Colorado.
The sun has set on March 31, 2024, as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train slowly drops downgrade into the curve passing over the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Eiesle, Colorado... (more)
The mighty Southern Pacific has faded into history, and any hint of the railroad currently is subtle and usually hard to find. Only a few locomotives carry SP colors on the Union Pacific today, if... (more)
UP 7951 (ES44AC) leads an oil can train towards the crossing at Blue Mountain Road as it heads up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
UP 695 (GP38N) wait with three other units to take their turn at shuffling cars in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 8115 (ES44C4) gets a stack train moving in Spruce, Colorado as it heads south on the Joint Line.
BNSF 8567 (SD70ACe) shoves a freight towards the Moffat Tunnel in Tolland, Colorado.
BNSF 2549 (GP39-3) moves a cut of cars in the yard at Hudson, Colorado.
BNSF 7607 (ES44DC) leads an oil train through Crescent, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
In a dispatching move that didn't quite make sense, the California Zephyr 5 train meets the California Zephyr 6 train, but since a UP oil train occupied the siding at Rocky, Colorado, the 5 train ... (more)
