Mixed Emotions. Two hundred new SD70ACes are slotted for Alliance, NE throughout 2008 meaning an equal number of SD70MACs, currently assigned there, will be moved to Glendive, MT. ... (more)

The EC-4 was inspecting Main 1 on the Joint Line at track speed when it saw something amiss at the grade crossing just north of Larkspur. The vehicle stopped and headed back to the crossing so cr... (more)

It's an all-Rio Grande evening in downtown Colorado Springs as UP 1445, recently returned to town after a short stint in Denver, is coupled to a Rio Grande shoving platform in front of the old D&R... (more)

A pair of visiting Southern Belles waits patiently in The Sag while MoW is working away at the north end of the single track in Palmer Lake. These units brought out the local rail paparazzi who s... (more)

ARR 4326 is hustling a late Denali Star south through Fort Richardson. A truly rare sight...a late-running Alaska Railroad train!

After waiting on the Academy siding for five northbounds to pass, this TILX coal train is underway again with a nice ACe in the lead. Learn more at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 9150
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 14, 2009

I caught this train going down the south side of the Palmer Divide with a load of coal on Saturday and here it is two days later going down the north side of the Palmer Divide with freshly emptied... (more)

As Pikes Peak stands watch, the UP Colorado Springs Local works east down the ex-Rock Island main with an ex-SP GP40-2 leading a DRGW caboose and a CSXT boxcar. Five different railroads make an a... (more)

UP 6320 is about to desend into the Mississippi River valley and into East St. Louis with it's westbound mixed freight. I wish I owned that house to the right! Q686-08.

A high priority Pasco, WA - Dilworth, MN re-route heads south late in the day with a CN-SOO-BNSF trio providing the power. In the first three years of railfanning the northern plains, I've only c... (more)

Coal empties snake northbound into Castle Rock enroute to Wyoming.

BNSF 9029 sits on the rear of a southbound coal train stopped in The Sag at Spruce, CO as freshly-fallen snow blows off of Pikes Peak as a harbinger of what's to come. The Pikes Peak Region was u... (more)

A trio of faded elephant MACs continue their descent southbound out of Palmer Lake on a pleasant Friday the 13th.

Plenty of classic photos exist of the two mains at the old crossover at Spruce, CO looking south toward Palmer Lake, but not many exist looking the other way. Here we see a northbound manifest in... (more)

After a brief stop at the station, a 12-hour late Empire Builder leaves Grand Forks southbound in a hurry.