Burlington Northern’s turn to Climax, Colorado, has returned to its base of Leadville, and the crew is putting the caboose over to the roundhouse before spotting the two cars over on the interch... (more)

The Minturn helpers are still on the point of the Oakland Kansas City Autos about to duck under Hwy 24 near Malta

WC6598 SD45 leads a eastbound at Malta. Wisconsin Central units were common on the Southern Pacific in the mid-90s because of the huge ore contract the two railroads shared for Geneva Steel.

Rocky Mountain High

The Denver & Rio Grande Western's very first SD40T-2, number 5341, leads a westbound manifest down Tennessee Pass near Leadville, Colorado, on a September 1991 af... (more)

Colorado's Sawatch Range "fourteeners" (mountain peaks exceeding 14,000ft.) provide a backdrop for a westbound on the Tennessee Pass Subdivision. This location is just west of Malta (Leadville) a... (more)

A sucker hole over the Continental Divide allows for some dramatic light to illuminate the Leadville, Colorado & Southern train as it sleeps away the winter in America's highest incorporated city ... (more)

Waiting for a train that will likely never-ever show up again... The perfect time of day and year with nothing but a ghost train... Kindig's Curve 2015

The view from the cab of Leadville, Colorado & Southern engine 1918 as it begins its journey down the mountain with the afternoon train in Leadville, CO on August 1, 2015.

The view from the pilot of Leadville, Colorado & Southern engine 1918 as it begins its journey down the mountain with the afternoon train in Leadville, CO on August 1, 2015.

The morning departure of the Leadville, Colorado & Southern backs out of Leadville on a perfect Colorado summer's day.

A pair of tunnel motors are about to pull their empty coal train through the tunnel over the continental divide. The other train stopped after clearing and the helpers on that train uncoupled and ... (more)

A manifest on the Tennessee Pass route.

Posed in basic black and imitation gold, Rio Grande's GP9 #5931 in original paint scheme. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Just after putting a two-car train away in the yard and spotting caboose No. 10286, the crew of SD9 No. 6223 have put the locomotive to rest inside the spiffy looking wooden roundhouse at Leadvill... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande coal load takes the passing siding at Pando to meet a work train approaching from the west. Kodachrome 64 transparency captured from the US Hwy. 24 overpass along D&RGW's s... (more)