A new arrival to Pueblo from the night before switches an empty rail flatcar during its morning train building routine and has taken the top spot away from more)

Some fine power has been assembled in the yard, and will soon take over switching operations.

Some of BNSF's largest locomotives are in charge of switching this morning. With pairs of SD40-2's sitting idling nearby, I wasn't quite sure what was going on. Here we see two Gevo's and a Warbon... (more)

BNSF crews have begun building tomorrow's locals in the ex/ ATSF yard in Pueblo.

Another coal load is making it's way out of town past the old Pueblo Union Depot platforms and the Pueblo Railway Museum.

A rather new GE ES44C4 and two sisters from the GE plant in Erie lead today's empty covered hopper train towards the massive GCC Rio ... (more)

An unusual visitor in the form of a pair of aircraft parts flatcars ascend the incline up to Pueblo Junction while the remains of the former steel truss bridge once used by the Missouri Pacific to... (more)

Three different BNSF paint schemes work in the ex/ ATSF yard. A Heritage 1, a "smurf" BNSF unit, and a recently rebuilt repainted Heritage 3. Also my 50th picture on the site.

With their empty wind tower flatcar train tucked away in UP’s Pueblo Yard, the engines now find themselves returning to the... (more)

Coal loads from the Rawhide Mine in Wyoming make the hard turn over Fountain Creek and head off towards the city of La Junta while th... (more)

Riding atop the original Colorado and Southern mainline, a short aircraft parts train passes the behemoth GCC Rio Grande cement plant which opened up in 2008 and is one of the first railroad custo... (more)

Patent Pending
Invented by George R. Burkhardt in 1940, the Torsion Resistant rail was created to improve upon torsional rigidity at the head of the rail thus giving greater resistanc... (more)

The evolution of BNSF's paint schemes are seen on power being shuffled around by today's Pueblo local, with tomorrow's U-PUESFA weari... (more)

A pair of remote controlled locomotives await their next yard job as an empty coal train bound for the North Antelope Mine passes through on the main line.

Fallen Flags
The names of former Midwestern roads are still seen adorned on the sides of coal hoppers as these cars sit and wait for their next customer.