An Atypical Joint Line Coal Train A lone Santa Fe GP20 rolls a single coal hopper, most likely a bad-order repair, through Larkspur, Colorado. This consist is quite a bit smaller t... (more)
Union Pacific The Big Boy is just departing Denver for Cheyenne in the midst of a classic November, Colorado Wyoming blizzard. By the time the Big Boy reaches Wyoming nearly a foot of snow had com... (more)
Winter Park Express emerges from the bore at West Portal at Winter Park, CO amid ideal deep snowy conditions on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. February morning sunshine filters down into the valle... (more)
The Denver Leadville & Gunnison No. 191 is the oldest steam locomotive in Colorado and a unique survivor with a Congdon stack. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in 1880, it worked ... (more)
Soo Line SW1 320 at the Oshkosh Engine House in January 1973. This SW1 was built in September 1939 and worked for the Soo Line until November 1978 when it was sold to Great Lakes Coal and Dock. It... (more)
A trio of Amtrak GE P42DCs pull a long California Zephyr through Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on February 16, 2002.
While it was bitter cold at minus 10 degrees, the sun was brilliant and the smoke plume magnificent. It was also the day I gained control of the camera and the pictures of that day led to me becom... (more)
Beautiful winter wonderland flock covers the entire valley at Pinecliffe, CO with 10” of new snow overnight. Amtrak’s early morning Winter Park Express is an ideal subject for the morning. Sil... (more)
The Big Boy, number 4014 is nearing the end of its journey home to Cheyenne, WYO at Terry Ranch. Blizzard conditions with drifts covering the right of way and just a kiss of late afternoon sun hig... (more)
On a beautiful clear Southern California morning, an eastbound UP grain empty was climbing Cajon Pass after a fresh snow fall.
Westbound climbing Donner Pass near Truckee
The snow is falling fast as a BNSF Ace and a Ferromex pull a loaded coal train past a farm at Greenland, Colorado.
After a cold winter night in Ritzville, Washington, conditions were right for everything to be covered with a thick coat of frost on January 23, 2013. An eastbound BNSF grain empty rolls through t... (more)
SD45X 5740 leads an EMD test train at the Depot In Williams Arizona in the early morning