A pair of Southern Pacific AC4400s send a bit of smoke skyward while exiting the east end of the passing siding at Avondale, CO on BNSF's Pueblo Sub. In another 10 or so miles this loaded coal tr... (more)

MP 3311 leads the Ford Fast Train, one of the hottest rains on the MP, at NA Jct near Avondale, CO, on June 23, 1980.

DRGW 5347 along with 4 CP units and an SP unit leads a merchandise train through Avondale, CO, Sep 1996.

A brand new 70ACe locomotive built in 2014 pulls loads of coal from Wyoming into Avondale this Summer morning in Colorado.

Known as “Rocky” by the Great Northern, this trademark mountain goat perched atop a rock would become the official trademark for that railroad in 1936. For much of its life Rocky would be enc... (more)

With lots of traffic needing to be moved, even trains going in the same direction sometimes have to be overtaken by higher priority trains behind them. As the conductor plugs his ears from the on... (more)

The GP50 on today’s L-PWR0357 returns back to the mainline with a number of empty TTX well cars and even a brand new Gunderson Mult... (more)

Built by Gunderson in May of 2013 this car represents one of the newest and latest designs for the stand alone auto rack, the Multi-Max. The unique aspect of this auto rack is that it can be setu... (more)

A lone GP50 in the BN scheme heads off the Avondale Siding for a pickup of TTX well cars from the TTCI setout track on the other side of this overpass.

The lead engine of today PWR0357 reverses slowly on his cut of intermodal cars as they go about setting these empties onto the tracks that lead to the TTCI test track. If you look closely you can... (more)

After a meet at Baxter, this BNSF local brings a numerous spine cars and even a drawbar connected long runner onto the siding at Avondale as it begins the chore of dropping these intermodal cars o... (more)

A lengthy mixed freight sits in the siding at Avondale beside nostalgic looking code line as this train waits for its crew out coming of La Junta.

A New Orleans bound train splits the signals at NE Avondale, as it shifts onto UP maintained track inherited from the MoPac merger in 1982. To the right one can see the former Santa Fe right of w... (more)

First of its kind Developed as answer to replacing DC locomotives with AC power at a likely lower cost and a direct response to the GE ES44C4 model, EMDX 1207 is the first six axle AC loc... (more)

Standing atop the now abandoned original Santa Fe right of way built in 1876, a short mixed freight train bound for Lubbock, Texas rides atop the AT&SF’s former competitor Missouri Pacific mainl... (more)