The DP motors shove a heavy westbound stack up the 1.4% grade of Goffs Hill as an eastbound Q train races down the hill into Needles at dusk.

An empty grain shuttle emerges from the shadows of Valentine, Ariz. as the train enters the western end of Crozier Canyon.

With the morning sun rising over the eastern parries, a pair of BNSF GEs motors descend down the Palmer Divide on empty grain shuttle as they traverse the last 45 miles of the trip into Denver. In... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief races across the Raton Subdivision, along southern Colorado, as it heads for its next station of La Junta. La Junta is also a crew change location for the Albuqu... (more)

The inbound engineer briefs with the outbound conductor in front of the La Junta Depot where Denver crews hand of the trains to Amarillo crews.

A pair AC GEVOs hold back 17,000 tons of coal for the Headwaters Power Plant in Donnie, TX down a 1.4% grade as it snakes through Monument, CO.

As a signal maintainer drives away from his work side for the day, an empty coal train approaches as it climbs the 1.5% grade over Palmer Lake (7,231 ft) which is less than a mile away.

Peaking out of the shadows, a Slaton, TX to Denver, CO manifest train starts to get up to speed down the northern slope of the Palmer Divide after climbing over the 7,200' summit. The train takes ... (more)

Three General Electric motors descend down the Palmer Divide, through Downtown Colorado Springs, with the Seattle, Q-train as an empty coal train holds the siding. While the the train is a classi... (more)

As the sun sets on the valley of Kingman, Ariz., an eastbound BNSF intermodal train battles the grade through Walapai and over the Arizona Divide on a cold winter evening.

A loaded Pawnee coal train makes its way up the branch towards the Xcel Energy power plant in Fort Morgan, CO. This is the 3rd Pawnee loaded train this year, and a sign that coal sets are returnin... (more)

The Longmont Switch makes its way back to its home yard as it runs through the short section of street running along Atwood St. With what used to be common power for coals, SD70MACs have found the... (more)

The sunlight reflects off the side of the orange GE motors as this Tacoma, WA to Omaha, NM intermodal train snakes its way through Louisville, CO and over Coal Creek on a pleasant April evening.

With a storm brewing towards the east, the Buck local heads back towards the mainline after making its trip up the Lafayette Branch to service the two customers at the end of the line. Once the lo... (more)

With the sun dipping behind the Colorado Rockies, a pair of Union Pacific GEVOs have made their way onto a BNSF empty coal train as passes through the town of Louisville along BNSF's Front Range S... (more)