A unique load spotted in the Denver Yard was this brand new Caterpillar scraper.

Red and blue GMTX units and a couple of Canadian Pacific visitors spice up the waiting area at the BNSF engine yard.

While not necessarily comparable to today's special vista dome Amtrak cars with the seamless curved glass windows, this 1948 dome feature was billed as "The Most Thrilling Innovation in Trave... (more)

A couple well-tagged Genset units are staged for moving out of the UP's North Yard, which is located in Denver, Colorado.

The Southwest Chief notches up as it splits the semaphore signals north of Wagon Mound, New Mexico.

A small freight anchored on each end by a Warbonnet B40-8W crosses HW287 in Broomfield, CO.

This was the moment that the California Zephyr led by Amtrak engine 19 (P42DC) blasted through a four foot snow drift during the massive March 14th Snowmageddon snowstorm. The explosion of snow c... (more)

The fire burns in the belly of the beast. UP 844 (4-8-4) sits in Denver waiting to take the Cheyenne Frontier Days train back to Cheyenne.

A variety of power sit in the BNSF engine shop yard a day after Denver received a heavy coating of new snow.

At daybreak the crew of UP 844 brings the heat up, evidenced by the dancing flames under the fire box.

One of the newly repainted and refurbished Union Pacific motors made it to Denver, Colorado. Under this new corporate paint scheme gone are the large flags on the side doors and the wings from th... (more)

The BNSF engine shop yard is full, with visitors from CSX, Canadian Pacific and five Warbonnets.

Here is something you hope you never see. The car crossing the tracks stopped briefly at the crossing as the lights and bells started to activate, but then proceeded to speed under the falling cr... (more)

After traveling across western Kansas and eastern Colorado, UP 4014 pulls into Denver's North Yard on a cold and dreary afternoon and will sit for a night before going home. Little did the crew ... (more)

In order to get from the Union Pacific's North Yard in downtown Denver to the Greeley Sub main line on which UP 4014 and cars would run to Cheyenne, the train had to back up just over 5 miles. Her... (more)