BNSF 7313 (ES44DC) leads a warbonnet and a long freight past the cooling lake that supported the now shuttered Valmont Power Plant.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) holds on the Front Range Sub line near the Valmont Power Plant in Boulder, Colorado until the dispatcher gives them the track warrant to proceed further.

This veteran sits in a field along Highway 93 between Golden and Boulder, Colorado. Canadian National 851 was built in 1954 as an EMD G8 and somehow found its way south to Colorado, where it has ... (more)

A dash-9 leads a freight through Boulder, Colorado.

BNSF 9042 (SD70ACe) leads a freight towards Boulder, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.

BNSF 2549 (GP39-3) leads the Buck Local towards Boulder, Colorado.

Arcosa Lightweight Aggregate

The Rocky local, usually only on Wednesday makes a heavy pick up and leaves a set out at Arcosa near Boulder, CO.

A loaded windmill blade train descends down Bunker Hill, into the People's Republic of Boulder, as it passes the Valmont Reservoir.

Eldorado Morning

Amtrak’s new truncated scheduled number 5 the California Zephyr is whisking along lifting the fresh snow from the Moffat Road near milepost 26 coming out of ... (more)

Last Call for Daily Service out of Denver

Fall splendor in the morning sun polarize the peak color along the Moffat Road. This is last daily westbound number 5 California Zeph... (more)

Goshawk Ridge & The Spirit

Sunday October, 4 the Spirit 1943 special led the Manifest from Grand Junction to North Yard out of T7 (tunnel 7). Made for a long ride for the crew... (more)

On the Slab over Tunnel 7

One of the parade of westbound empty coal buckets flies through the cut and dives into tunnel 7 along the Goshawk Ridge on the Flatirons. Fall color ... (more)

Snowy Morning over Eldorado Canyon

An early Winter storm ravaged the front range for 2 days between September 7-9. A pleasant surprise on the morning of the 10th both that the ... (more)

Silver Thread through the Rockies

In this frame the great story of America’s Passenger Train, the California Zephyr comes to mind. The late year sunrise light glisten low off... (more)

Spires of Granite

Amtrak number 1105 substituting for number 5 the California Zephyr is about 34 minutes late at tunnel 5 and 6 on the Flatiron Range near Eldorado Canyon. Spir... (more)