Early morning in Phippsburg, Colorado finds a cushioned underframe, double door, fifty foot box car in the most iconic Rio Grande paint scheme at the end of a cut of cars.
A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)
Three thousand and two black horses move west high in the Rocky Mountains. Three thousand of them are in the form of a Rio Grande SD40T-2, leading a 56 car Craig Switcher at Hayden, Colorado.
Fully loaded, Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 departs the Energy Mine for Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee Plant in Denver. This crew will take the train as far as Phippsburg, where i... (more)
Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 creeps along as its cars are flood loaded. The coal is from the Energy Mine at the end of the Energy Branch at the far reaches of the Denver & Salt Lake main ... (more)