Three BNSF GE's lead this heavy Provo, UT bound manifest up the 2% grade in Coal Creek Canyon as a cold front brings light rain and fog in 40 degree weather.

Two Geeps run lite as they slowly roll through the small town of Hygiene on their way to Lyons. Even though 3030 still has a GP40X body, this is one of 10 GP40X's the BNSF derated to 2500HP. The r... (more)

With the window cracked open, the engineer on BNSF 5003 gets some fresh air as they depart Longmont on the daily Denver to Laurel Manifest.

Detouring through Wyoming is Amtrak #5, the California Zephyr. It is seen here about to enter the boar of the Hermosa Tunnels just east of Tie Siding on Track 2 from Dale Jct.

A slow moving thunderstorm dumping heavy rain and hail trundles northeast in the background as a BNSF empty sand train rolls through the siding at Broomfield, Colorado where they will wait to go i... (more)

An empty Union Pacific coal train led by an assortment of GE's round the s-curve while entering Coal Creek Canyon west of Arvada and Denver, Colorado.

A BNSF crew member gives the engineer hand signals before making the joint with a set of empty BNSF covered hoppers that were filled with barley at the Coors Elevator in Highland, CO.

Winter is in full force as two BNSF GEs lead this southbound stack train through the sag on Berthoud Hill just outside of the town of Berthoud, CO. The temperature at the time was at -3 degrees.

As the sun starts to set across the Rocky Mountains, the Longmont Turn returns back to Longmont after picking up their train at Lyons and they are seen coming into the town of Hygiene.

In the morning fog, the Denver, CO to Fort Collins, CO Manifest pauses at Highland before they make their 20 car set out. A dusting of snow fell over night as well.

Union Pacific ES44AH no. 8262 leads eastbound coal loads from West Elk Mine at Leyden in Arvada, Colo., on May 26, 2015. The train is about to cross over Indiana Avenue.

Three UP units lead the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus Train bound for Las Vegas, NV out of Platteville, Colorado after meeting southbound loaded coal train in the siding. The train wi... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 brings up the rear of Public Service of Colorado coal empties as the train races by Finger Rock near Yampa, Colorado along UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision/Craig Branc... (more)

I got word that a Track Geometry Train from Guernsey, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado was coming down the FRS. It was a nice treat to see this as well as a BNSF Executive SD70MAC on the point. Seen he... (more)

Denver and Rio Grande Western 5771, an EMD F9A, sits proudly in the bright Colorado sunshine near its original stomping grounds in Golden, Colorado at the Colorado Railroad Museum. DRGW 5771 was b... (more)