A late running south freight rolls under the Old Glen Highway near Matanuska Junction. Not often at this time of year do you get an opportunity to catch the south freight in daylight hours. Chalk ... (more)

Denver Union Station is decorated for the season. This is looking down in 17th street in downtown Denver, CO on Christmas night when traffic is light.

Before I moved to Colorado I made yearly visits and I was fortunate one year to catch the EMD demo units testing on the Craig Branch. Seen here at Crater with the dynometer car.

The southbound Denali Star has departed the station at Denali Park and has crossed Riley Creek amid beautiful fall colors. Fall has an early arrival in Alaska especially the further north you go. ... (more)

Rio Grande manifest led by GP40-2 3088 climbs Cedar Hill in the Utah desert this location is west of Woodside on the Rio Grande mainline. Oh how I miss the Rio Grande. Scanned from a Kodachrome sl... (more)

Sometimes you get lucky. I was out looking for some wildlife to photograph and found a large Bull Moose along the boardwalk at Potter Marsh. As I took a few shots and followed along the boardwalk ... (more)

The Cimarron Valley is a nice change of pace to the coal trains I see all the time. The fact that they run ex-Rio Grande GP30s is a bonus.

It is 12:06 AM and the daily freight bound for Anchorage is just minutes away from Denali Park and the days sunshine doesn't have much longer either. Summer days in Alaska.

Living in Colorado I am used to seeing various fall colors. However I wasn't expecting these fantastic colors in Alaska so early in September.

UP's Craig local departs Phippsburg with loads for Craig. It will be a non stop trip to Craig where then the local will spend several hours switching the local industries on a very cold second to ... (more)

The Coastal Classic dome catches the glint of the setting Alaskan Sun

Although UP had assumed operations of the Rio Grande for more than a few years it was still fairly common to catch the manifest trains with Rio Grande power. Rio Grande SD40T-2 5360 looks good wit... (more)

Conductor Davis lines the switch back to the normal position for the north leg of the wye at Matanuska Junction while Engineer Siegmann looks on. In the distance the coal train takes the siding to... (more)

Alaska DPU 4001 trails train 183S the loaded export coal train headed for Seward to unload. See here near the former Moody Tunnel.

Looks like Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3012 is in the shop for a little Alaska TLC. Alaska Railroad has a fully equipped shop that can handle just about everything the railroad can throw at it with the... (more)