As the second significant early season snow storm is spitting its final few flakes along the front range, UP 1988 leads a Denver, CO - Dalhart, TX special just south of Monument. More info at more)

The Valley Eagle assaults Archer Hill behind UP 844 as 40-plus mph winds and wind chills in the low teens assault everyone who came out to witness this special run as it makes its way towar... (more)

ARR 3001 and ARR 3006, two of the last three remaining Alaska Railroad Geeps to sport the as-delivered black and yellow paint scheme, have been paired together for the past few weeks and tend to h... (more)

Follow us at Alaska Railfanning! The barges are in! Winter is a notoriously slow time for the Alask... (more)

Boy, they sure are mining some interesting stuff at North Antelope Mine these days! First time I've seen a hitchhiker tagging along; it was pretty surprising! This train would stop at Detroit La... (more)

The Legend. This isn't one of those faux, Wheeling & Lake Erie ex-Rio Grande units. Nope, this is the real deal, untarnished except for the scars of time. DRGW 5371 came into existence i... (more)

Wow. You can almost see the fear coming out of that woman; it's too bad this photograph doesn't capture how much that EMDX beauty was laying on its horn. Check out the second cyclist ducking und... (more)

UP 1989 is in town for the 2009 Rio Grande Modeling and Historical Society convention that's taking place in Colorado Springs this week. As one employee said as he walked by during my drool-fest,... (more)

Dakota Northern's ILSX 1392 has just set out a load in south Grafton for the BNSF and is about to proceed back toward downtown and call it a day.

After waiting two hours for the 4-track main to clear of trains, I finally got an unobstructed view of DRGW 5371 hooked up to the UP Rotary Snow Plow in the Cheyenne Yard. Even after 34 years of ... (more)

"Light" engine movement uphill in Monument. 13 units. 78 axles. Unimaginable horsepower. I had no idea this menagerie was coming until the dead crew of a southbound on the siding pointed behin... (more)

Beginning on December 27, the Ski Train will once again return to Denver's Union Station. The San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad worked tirelessly with Amtrak, Union Pacific, the city of Denver, and ... (more)

Freshly-painted ARR 3012 chills at the diesel shop in the ARR Anchorage Yard with a couple of MAC stablemates.

A Profile of Unpatched Perfection. The classic lines of the SD40T-2 adorned in the timeless livery of the Rio Grande makes any camera's sensor happy. Retired on December 5, 2008, D... (more)

BNSF will sometimes leave a "just-in-case" helper near the Palmer Divide, either along the northbound track in Palmer Lake or along the southbound main on the siding at Spruce. Here, a picturesqu... (more)