Two SD40's sort a manifest that came in last night.

A fully stocked Pueblo Yard is active this morning with the Minnequa local building its train, and other BNSF moves occurring all over.

On it's way home to Cheyenne on it's 150 years tour, 844 is backing through Pueblo Jct. to be put on display for the next 36 hours before making the run to Denver, and then Cheyenne.

With a consist that a 7 year old might have created; four autoracks, three tank cars, a single well car, and an ATSF caboose; the Minnequa Local is preparing to depart before 844 clogs of up the r... (more)

Power used for the Minnequa local sits silent in Pueblo's yard.

Orange power is everywhere this morning making the lone Cascade green unit stand out that much more. Three SD40's working the yard(s) are moving to take a bad ordered flat car to the maintenance b... (more)

After setting a bad ordered flat car off at maintenance, the power for the yard returns to building trains. Directly above 1719, the "Hill Cut" job that runs to Evraz Steel and the Vestas plant is... (more)

BNSF 1844 idles beside the yard tower and provides a nice view into the classification tracks of the former Santa Fe hump yard that used to be located here.

With part of its early mornings switching done, the lone engine of today's BNSF "hill cut" local heads to the departure yard to retrieve a pair of Dash 9 locos before heading off to the steel mill... (more)

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With a pair of UP 6 axle units pulling slowly, another Continues Welded Rail (CWR) train full of 136lb Rocky Mountain Steel departs the city of Pueblo and shows off the spaghe... (more)

After 2 hours of waiting for UP yard switching to commence, the morning Rock & Rail train finally makes its way towards the ex-Rio Grande yard and will soon drop off loads of cement and pick up wh... (more)

The distinct snout of a snoot.

The Rock and Rail has picked up its cars from BNSF/UP and is now thumping along at a solid 40mph across the arid landscape of Colorado in a very dry summer.

Union Pacific has assembled their train and is ready to head south after the paperwork is completed.

With a collection of engines it plans to take up to Denver, including the remote control unit of BNSF 1719, today's KCKDEN prepares to depart from Pueblo with a rather clean looking Dash 9 at the ... (more)