Light snow is falling as the Winter Park Express runs through Crescent, Colorado on its way to the ski resort.

UP 6318, one of three remaining active Southern Pacific patched AC4400CW's, leads an oil can train down from Tunnel #1 and through Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.

UP 1943 (SD70ACe) Runs under Highway 93 as it heads to Rocky, Colorado.

UP 1943 (SD70ACe) leads an oil can train through Chemical, Colorado as it runs up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

BNSF 9647 the Celebration unit for the BNSF merger leads this XTY Coal train through Trinidad, CO with BN 9690 & BN 9659. This was a Texas Power coal train returning to the Powder River.

Final Curtain

After 143 years of near continuous use of coal-burning power on the Silverton Branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, on the 23rd of March 2024. The final r... (more)

The esteemed Conductor, Brad Swartzwelter, of the Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train, is retiring from Amtrak after 30 years of service, and will make his last WPE ride on the 31st of March on... (more)

On March 20, 1949, the first run of the original California Zephyr departed Chicago, Illinois, bound for the west coast. A 75th anniversary run of the westbound California Zephyr, Amtrak’s train... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 174 has been repainted in Phase VII colors and leads the Winter Park Express ski train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 21, 2024.

Running a 35 minutes behind the California Zephyr is Amtrak’s eastbound Winter Park Express ski train, returning from Winter Park, and has just exited Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, at 6:27 p.... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 1 at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, late in the afternoon of March 22, 2024. Leading the train is recently-repainted GE P42DC No. 82... (more)

Amtrak engine #174 (P42DC) in the Phase VII paint scheme runs toward Plainview, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Amtrak engine #82 (P42DC) is one of a few P42's painted in the new Phase VII scheme. Here it is leading the California Zephyr through Plainview as it heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

UP 6318 (AC4400CW) is one of three remaining active Southern Pacific painted units running patched for the Union Pacific. Here it runs down from Tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.

Sporting one of the best paint schemes to grace an engine, UP 1943 (SD70ACe) leads an oil can train through Leyden, Colorado as it heads towards the Colorado Rockies.