The main rail line through Denver passes over and under roads leading into the City, as well as between what is now high priced condos like Riverfront that have been built on land that used to be... (more)
A vintage cattle car adorns the Denver Stock Show grounds - a reminder of the cattle rustling days of Denver's past.
One of these is not like the others..... While the BNSF is busy repainting their older units in the Heritage III paint scheme (the 'Swoosh') there is one veteran still wearing its paint from 1974... (more)
Heavy snow starts to fall on the veteran Pacific Fruit Express #1048 which is a NW2 built in 1946 and resides in Strassburg, Colorado.
One of four Warbonnets to visit the BNSF engine servicing yard this day was #674, a Dash 9 unit built for the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe in 1994.
OmniTRAX in Loveland, Colorado owns a variety of engines that have interesting histories. OMLX 4201 is an ex-Canadian National Railways/Hudson Bay Railway Incorporated GP40-2LW. OMLX 2506 is an ... (more)
The Georgetown Loop Railroad had their two steam locomotives out of the engine house getting some sun. West Side Lumber (WSL) #9 is a three truck shay built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1923. ... (more)
UP 5058 (SD70M) gets the assistance of a crewmember to help lead two other heavies to a load of freight cars waiting in the UP 36th Street Yard in Denver.
It is a cold morning with light snow flurries as the morning Amtrak train, already 2 hours late due to a heavy snow storm the previous day, leaves Denver's Union Station behind and passes Coors Fi... (more)
The engineer of BNSF 1925 gets last minute instructions before leading a string of flatbed cars out of the BNSF Intermodal Facility in north Denver. Adjacent to the BNSF facility is RTD's mainte... (more)
Denver Rock Island Railroad's newest addition GP38-2 moves a cut of cars in a yard in north Denver, Colorado.
A BNSF freight enters the Big Ten Curve at Rocky, Colorado as it climbs the grade going west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
OMLX 9522 (GP40-2LW) catches the eye of a bike rider just as the train crosses the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Helper engine BNSF 5652 (AC4400CW) sits on a siding at Spruce, Colorado for the call to assist a train over the Palmer Divide.
The Colorado Railroad Museum features a variety of restored passenger cars, such as this beautiful Tahoe Dining Car No4, which seats 30 comfortably and which can be rented for special occasions.
