After meeting a loaded grain train at Longs Peak, the Buck Local approaches a 10 MPH slow order near MP 24 at Boulder, CO. In the background, the Valmont Power Plant stands as thunderstorms slowly... (more)

It's a beautiful morning in Boulder, CO as two GEVOs leading the Laurel, MT to Denver, CO Manifest slowly notch up as they approach a slow order at MP 24. Valmont Power Plant and the city of Bould... (more)

At Boulder, the Laurel to Denver Manifest leaves the city of Boulder with the Front Range Foothills and the Valmont Power Plant in the background.

UP6031 twists thru the 10 degree curves of Coal Creek Canyon. It is an unrelenting 50+ mile climb to the Moffat Tunnel. The toughest section of grade is between Leyden and Plainview. The Moffat i... (more)

High in the Front Range of the Rockies 2 SD70M's struggle with a short ballast train. The train doesn't look like much, but it has these two SD70Ms down to a crawl....

Led by a GP39V still in BN paint, the Longmont Turn slowly accelerates away from the Valmont power plant heading toward it's next assignment on a warm January afternoon.

Three GEs elephant style lead a southbound stack train out of Boulder, CO with the Flatirons of the Front Range with the Valmont Power Plant in the background.

BNSF 4977 brings a late coming Tacoma, WA to Omaha, NE stack train past the Valmont Power Plant located in Boulder, CO.

The Ski Train powers thru the Flatirons on one of the most scenic climbs in the world....

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, climbs through a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.

One of the most Herculean jobs in modern railroading is lifting trains up and thru the Continental Divide in Colorado. UP6055 lifts a heavy westbound manifest at Tunnel One on the Moffat Road. Th... (more)

Two Ferromex ES44ACs lead an empty Windmill Blade Train from Pasco, WA to Corpus Christi, TX that is seen leaving the city of Boulder on their way towards Denver, then Texas.

Leave'n The Rockies Behind Two Ferromex ES44ACs lead an empty Windmill Blade Train from Pasco, WA to Corpus Christi, TX that is seen leaving the city of Boulder and passing the Valmont Powe... (more)

An empty Windmill Train from Pasco. WA to Corpus Christi, TX is lead by foreign power as it moves south with the Xcel Energy Power Plant and the snow capped Rocky's in the background.

northbound BNSF train on Front Range Sub exC&S Denver to Cheyenne main near Boulder, CO