This fresh looking engine is ready for college football season to begin, sporting a special Nebraska logo on the nose.

Union Pacific’s MNYRO manifest freight climbs around the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon west of Clay, Colorado, on July 8, 2012. Three locomotives on the front of the train are about to enter Tunnel... (more)

At the top of the overlook near Pinecliffe, Colo., an eastbound loaded crude oil train from Wash, Utah to Midwest City, Okla., rounds the curve approaching the east end of the siding.

Union Pacific MRONY heads eastbound out of Radium, Colorado, and is about to enter Little Gore Canyon on the afternoon of August 4, 2014. EMD locomotives powering the train are a pair of SD70Ms (N... (more)

Over U.P. trackage rights, BNSF 6852 West is about to crest the Continental Divide and plunge through 6.2-mile long Moffat Tunnel on Feb. 21, 2015. The premises are heavily monitored and remotel... (more)

Southbound UP coal train climbing into Greenland

Railfanning can be a solitary, misunderstood, and frustrating hobby. It can also be extremely rewarding with good companionship, wonderful scenery, and great photographic rewards. Those days that ... (more)

The snow is falling fast, requiring crews to diligently clean the switches in the Denver Yard.

Here is a nice assortment of power in the yard of the BNSF Denver Engine Servicing Facility, including 4 Union Pacific, 2 Kansas City, 1 Citirail, and the always colorful BNSF engines.

An amazing sunrise catches UP 8927 SD70AH (new to the Railpictures database) in the UP North Yard.

On May 05, 2014, three brand new BNSF SD70ACes lead this loaded coal train down Big Ten Curve west of Denver. The train is about to enter the west end of Rocky Siding.

A Southern Pacific coal load climbs the steep Tennessee Pass Subdivision a mile or two below the summit on a sunny March 29, 1997 afternoon. The 100 car train had three AC4400CWs on the point, fou... (more)

The North Yard is active, with nearly every track holding cars.

Approaching the small town of Eagle, Colorado, an SGVCC coal empty rambles through scenic Red Canyon on Sept. 26, 1996.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train snakes through Big 10 Curve on the afternoon of June 9, 2013. In the foreground are two AC4400CWs being used as rear DPUs going through Eisele (formerly Clay)... (more)