Changing of the guard.

It's a packed house at the Calera yard, today's visitors include (from L to R) M713(Loco 7584), Q577(Loco 7602), Q520(Woodchip hopper), M721(Loco 7903), K988(Loco 5236) and K767(Loco 9003)

The very colorful Rock and Rail locomotives make a daytime appearance and help push an empty hopper train towards Parkdale on clear December day in Colorful Colorado.

A 70MAC and mother slug set are the power for rock train W081, which dropped off empty Herzog ballast hoppers in Vulcan Materials for another load of aggregate. The locomotives then tied up on th... (more)

Today's BNSF transfer is busy building its train in the East Thomas yard. In this view, one can see the yard tower in background as well as part of the intermodal ramp on the right and some quali... (more)

Showing off true collaboration between the merged carriers a Conrail coil car with NS and Conrail hoods makes its way out of this steel city for a journey west.

Q145 pounds the diamond at Opelika as it heads south over the former Central of Georgia mainline to Birmingham and prepares to take the siding for a meet with Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: UP 7706
Train ID: CSX Q145
Photo Date: August 04, 2010

An all elephant and YN3 painted consist powers Q611 today, as it slowly brings the train down the "Old Main" into Chester Yard. Although it would have been nice to see the two veteran SD40-2s on ... (more)

A pair of classic SD40-2 leaser locomotives lead A56 north through the Magic City while hot on the heals of NS 342 during a... (more)

Old Meets New
Historically Pueblo has been known for its quality rail produced at the timeless CF&I Rail Mill s... (more)

Built in 1934 at the Bessemer shops of Pullman Standard, this B6 boxcar based on the American Railroad Association design and is notable for being the first all steel 40 foot boxcar built for the ... (more)

The executive paint of this 70MAC has held up rather well as it sits all by its lonesome off main 1 on the house track located here in Castle Rock. The locomotive looks great against the darkening... (more)

After an extremely long 2hr meet with X228 at Loachapoka due to a hotbox detector malfunction requiring the X228 conductor to walk his 7200 foot train, Q220 is finally back on the move again. Thi... (more)

Resembling the glory days of when Santa Fe was running the show, La Junta's yard is full of a few trains this afternoon waiting for crews to move them to Denver. This scene of a yard with life is... (more)