UP 1517 is new in town providing power for the UP Colorado Springs Local. Get these shots while you can because Union Pacific is rapidly repainting former SP, SSW, and DRGW units into Armour Yell... (more)

The Ray Nixon powerplant in Fountain, CO is about to receive a load of coal as UP 6066 brings it south, seen here approaching Woodmen Rd. in Colorado Springs.

As Pikes Peak stands watch, the UP Colorado Springs Local works east down the ex-Rock Island main with an ex-SP GP40-2 leading a DRGW caboose and a CSXT boxcar. Five different railroads make an a... (more)

The UP Colorado Springs Local works east over Monument Creek toward Roswell with its shoving platform and a lone boxcar. Not long ago, UP 1510 was dressed in SP speed lettering, but as the new pa... (more)

Colorado Springs is hopping this morning with both a northbound coal empty and a freight train rolling north. Throw in the UP and BNSF local power as well as a UP train in the Drake Power Plant. I... (more)

An ACe splices two ES44ACs as coal loads cruise downhill into Colorado Springs.

UP 1988 SB through Colorado Springs.

Southbound coal power pops around the bend with a stained ACe in the lead, seen here just south of the Academy siding.

EMD DPUs on northbound coal empties skirt the cliffs just south of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

A trio of H2 Dash 9s leads a long manifest south through a non-urbanized part of Colorado Springs.

After setting off the defect detector for hot axles about an hour an a half earlier and clogging the Joint Line, BNSF 9185 and BNSF 9190 are underway again with southbound coal as they try and mak... (more)

BNSF 5669 on its way south through the Air Force Academy.

UP 1989 and Pikes Peak, two of Colorado's five front range icons (the other three of course being the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, John Elway, and Interstate 25 congestion), bask in the morning... (more)

UP 1989 is in town for the 2009 Rio Grande Modeling and Historical Society convention that's taking place in Colorado Springs this week. As one employee said as he walked by during my drool-fest,... (more)