A load of black diamonds from the Black Thunder Mine lead by a pair of War Pumpkins pass underneath I-25 as an 18-wheeler passes overhead.

Today’s Pueblo local heads to the mill for work as it passes remnants of the Missouri Pacific mainline into Pueblo as well as the former diamond special track work that crossed the former Colora... (more)

A pair of heritage one units pull into Pueblo with a train of crude oil and begin to slow down for a run through the Junction as this train will soon take a turn onto the former Santa Fe mainline ... (more)

A unit rail train slowly makes its way toward the former Rio Grande yard with loads of 80 foot long rail bundled in packages of 5 rails wide and stacked 8 packages per car. This steel is more)

The sun tries to break through the impending afternoon cloud movements and prevails one last time as it illuminates both the ex-Rio Grande and Santa Fe yards full of vintage equipment with the nam... (more)

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Couplers from scrapped railcars head into the BNSF yard where they’ll most likely be sent to a foundry that manufactures this railway component so their metal compositions ... (more)

As the afternoon comes to a close, the second shift “Hill Cut” steadily goes to work switching cars brought into the yard by the first shift’s crew while also giving one a view of the unique... (more)

In a rather interesting maneuver, the “Hill Cut” is seen on the return from its second trip to the Evraz Steel Mill with more loads of rail and setouts dropped off on the rock track just past ... (more)

The remote controlled 1799 moves a solitary covered hopper car with colorful gibberish from one part of the yard to another while the classy Santa Fe SD40-2 rests on the fuel track.

Creekers Running as lite engines this morning, today’s Y-PUE101 is seen about to pass the Salt Creek control point as the three EMD beauties head toward the massive Evraz Rocky Mountain ... (more)

Today’s Rock and Rail traverses the s-curves on its way into the former Rio Grande yard in Pueblo while stored covered hoppers sit parked to the left and the Rockies stand tall in the back.

The always early Rock and Rail continues the run into Pueblo with 20 cars bound for interchange with the BNSF at the UP yard a little over a mile away.

Sixty nine foot long pieces of 115 pound rail fresh from the Evraz USA mill in Pueblo (former CF&I) sit bundled atop a flush deck flatcar as they head East to Kansas City on the p... (more)

A bridge used by the MoPac on its former mainline into Pueblo frames up the rear DPU on an empty BNSF coal train. Once this bridge used to carry the Colorado Eagle, today it carries the tags of g... (more)

Resting this Saturday in one of the spur tracks of the former Santa Fe classification yard in Pueblo, the 1760 idles away with another SD40-2 but of the Remote Controlled variety.