BNSF 9068 leads a coal drag East across the La Junta Subdivision.

A pair of ACes drag a loaded coal train around the big bend just East of Boone.

A loaded coal train makes its way through the farms and fields of the Colorado flatlands, as it heads down the BNSF Pueblo Subdivision, which is former Missouri Pacific territory. This stretch of ... (more)

One of the last holdouts of active Missouri Pacific signals is the BNSF Pueblo Subdivision between North Avondale and NA Junction, Colorado. A brief 12 or so mile stretch of railroad entirely dic... (more)

Running over former Missouri Pacific trackage, a loaded coal train splits through the intermediate signals just east of Boone, Colorado under a pristine summer morning sky.

Coal loads rumble through N.A. Junction

Missouri Pacific number 74, eastbound out of Pueblo, Colorado, has a little extra help March 26, 1965, as GP18 520 leads a set of second-generation power east of Boone, Colorado, near the Santa Fe... (more)

Missouri Pacific’s far western extension to Pueblo, Colorado, completed in 1887 as a sign of its transcontinental intentions under Jay Gould, disappeared a century later, gobbled up by all-devou... (more)

Numerous mammatus clouds begin to gather and brew overhead as an afternoon thunderstorm makes its presence known atop the abandoned MoPac mainline on the flatlands of eastern Colorado. Special... (more)

Splitting the signals at MP 593.2, this H2 painted Dash 9 leads an empty crude oil train into the afternoon sun as the train is making great time towards Pueblo.

Still wearing its original BNSF number, the 8274 is a very exciting sight to see at the point of a freight train since many in this class of locomotives have usually been found in the dead lines a... (more)

An endless line of crude oil tankers looking nearly as seamless as the rails they are moving atop, roll on into the horizon as they make their way back to an oil loading terminal out west.

Splitting the signals at mp 596.1, a long load of black diamonds keeps rolling along at 25mph as it runs atop the flat lands of eastern Colorado. The rear DPU locomotives can be seen in this view... (more)

Leaning into the super elevated curve at Boone, the L-PWR0357 heads into the small town with a train of empty covered hoppers including one interestingly tagged unit second from the front.

The approach signal to N/A Junction still stands waiting for a train that will never show up on a chilly night along the abandoned MoPac mainline in Colorado, meanwhile a car’s taillight’s str... (more)