You're high up in the mountains when the only sound you hear is a steam locomotive working up the grade. It's amazing... Here, Extra 489 east rounds the small s-curve near Lobato, New Mexico with ... (more)
Three BNSF C44-9W's lead the Denver, Colorado to Provo, Utah trackage rights manifest up the 2% grade at the east end of East Portal Siding on August 15, 2015.
Being high up in the mountains has its perks. The only sound you hear is the wind, some birds maybe, and off in the distance a train working up the grade towards the continental divide.
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The calming sound of the water in South Boulder Creek is briefly interrupted as Union Pacific AC6044CW No. 6921 leads three more units on the Valmont (Boulder) to Energy Mine, Colorado empty coal ... (more)
After dropping off their passengers at the depot, Cumbres & Toltec K-36 No. 484 proceeds through the yard to the west end of town to be wyed for the next day's train on July 21, 2015.