A weekend get-away in Glenwood Springs, Colorado gave me the chance to do some winter railfanning in western Colorado. First off, I got yet another lesson in just how little rail traffic there is ... (more)

BNSF 7790 has just about finished its 2000 foot climb from Denver as it nears Palmer Lake. Once over the top it’s downhill all the way past the Air Force Academy into downtown Colorado Springs.

UP 8753 west with the MNPRVB-15 coming off of the 5 mile long Rambo Fill in the Great Salt Lake onto dry land at Lakeside, Utah.

This 5 unit set of 6 axle Utah Railway locos has reached the more open terrain and easier gradients of the upper Price River Canyon. One of the reasons I like this image is that all of these locos... (more)

Deseret Power Ry’s afternoon loaded train is at the very summit of the railroad’s high point, Holum Pass. The usual 44 cars are following behind the 3 E-60’s. In a little less than an hour t... (more)

19 loads in; 6 empties out. That is today's work for the Dirt Train Local at the East Carbon Development Corp.’s (ECDC) big contaminated waste disposal facility. It is located at the end of Unio... (more)

Today’s Dirt Train (Local 45) has finished it’s work at the East Carbon Development’s landfill and is headed downgrade toward a connection with the Green River sub at Mounds, Utah. The snow ... (more)

The unloading process at Bonanza is finished and 3 of Deseret Power Railway’s E-60 electrics are pulling its empty train around the loop track to head back to the Deserado Mine loader in Colorad... (more)

The low winter light and snow cover make for a very different picture of the Utah desert. Union Pacific's Local 45, the "Dirt Train", is carrying on a long tradition of this local dating back to ... (more)

It's 4:30 PM and Deseret Power Ry's afternoon train has just left the loadout. The morning crew had loaded the afternoon train on their return from taking the AM train to Bonanza and back. The swi... (more)

Nevada Northern’s beautiful ten wheeler #40 along with it’s 2 car passenger train sits in the East Ely yard next to the freight house. #40 was built by Baldwin in 1912 and has been on the line... (more)

Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. #93 is putting a replica wreck train together in the East Ely yard. The occasion is the winter photo shoot of the NNRy Museum. That 100 ton steam wrecking crane in t... (more)

This Union Pacific coal train is easing down the 2% grade on the west side of Soldier Summit. Just ahead of the train, about 1/2 mile, the tracks finally reach creek level in the bottom of Spanish... (more)

Here is one of Utah Ry’s Australian SD50’s switching a short train of CO2 tank cars at Wildcat siding, Utah. These heavily insulated cars contain liquid CO2 for use in oil and gas wells and ar... (more)

Union Pacific #5787 has just arrived at the Skyline loadout and is now pulling its empty train through the flood loader. It will cut off and run back to the former rear end on an adjacent run-arou... (more)