Basking in the sun, the NW2 rests in the DRIR yard between assignments.

A pair of Burlington Northern “6-motors” operating as a manned helper set, shoves on the rear of a westbound BNSF freight encircling the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon west of Clay, Colorado, on Febru... (more)

A SD60M painted in BNSF's "Swoosh" scheme idles on the House Track near the Longmont, CO Depot, while a GE B40-8 sits on an Industrial Siding. These units are currently in service on Local's that ... (more)

Just north of Longmont at a location called Morey, the Laurel, MT to Denver, CO Manifests rolls along at track speed as they approach the city limits of Longmont. Many clouds build over the Rocky ... (more)

After waiting for the LAUDEN to pass by and picking up four UP Grain Hopper at Highland, the Longmont Turn led by three SD40-2s approaches the Vermillion Road Crossing just outside of Longmont as ... (more)

A rare, daylight MNYPU manifest rolls south through Colorado Springs with an ex GECX AC4400 leading. An approaching cold front is making the skies quite dark.

Amtrak’s No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs the Front Range of the Rockies on the morning on May 30, 2011. The fog is lifting off of the Flatirons west of Plainview, Colorado, as the train threa... (more)

DRGW 487 is rounding Windy Point and is now in full assault of the final few hundred yards of 4%. If all these cars had been loads this train would have been quite near the tonnage limits for the... (more)

After applying a couple of hand brakes on their train, the Longmont Switch unhooked from their train and proceeded to the NSS Highland. Here they will pull onto the siding and then make a reverse ... (more)

Three SD40-2s including a rebuilt SD45-2, now classed as a SD40-2R rolls on through the town of Berthoud, CO with 17 cars from North Yard. The train is passing a painted grain elevator and the old... (more)

BNSF 9374 leads UP 5471, BNSF 5503, BNSF 4514 and a train of mixed freight along East Portal Rd. just east of Tolland, CO. The snow-covered peaks of the Continental Divide are visible on this bea... (more)

eastbound SP train coming into Denver in morning light near Leyden siding

Veterans: Two older locomotives from different backgrounds gather at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on February 18, 2013. UP 1363 is on home turf, formerly hauling fast freights f... (more)

Another late night visit to Kelker found me shooting an older pair of EMD's this time. The Pike's Peak local ran south during the day, and will return to Denver tomorrow morning. For a picture of ... (more)

A harder-to-find-leading Heritage I C44-9W leads this morning's freight in the Air Force Academy.