Severe Storm Season
Nothing delights me more than working mother nature at her best in all the drama and impact it has to offer. Light the way into the storm, an HPC with small hail... (more)

WB CHIDENZ
Daily and nearing its destination the Chicago Z train rolls past a very late Summer scene along Barr Lake.

Panning For Gold
Working with my prime f1.4 50mm I follow the California Zephyr as it’s blasting into Denver from Chicago at the very first light of a cold winter morning alo... (more)

Sunrise under an Impending Winter Storm

A significant winter storm is descending the Front Range just before sunrise on this February day while the BNSF keeps the rails s... (more)

Moonrise over Barr Lake

Summer travelers are sitting down to dinner aboard the eastbound California Zephyr as it flies over the causeway at Barr Lake, CO.

Amtrak's California Zephyr races across Barr Lake as the mosquitos buzz near the swap water on a warm summer evening. AMTK 184, the Phase IV heritage unit, was assigned to lead this days Zephyr on... (more)

Barr on Ice

Headlights glisten off the ice over Barr Lake on the fill Amtrak 5 nearly on time moments before sun up on a sub zero day along the High Plains Route.

Cattails & Stainless Steel

Amtrak 6, on time glides over the mirrored reflection of a serene calm soothing Summer evening on the High Plains.

Winter Solstice Sunrise at Barr Lake

In a repeat attempt for several years, the first light of a Winter Solstice sunrise silhouettes Amtrak 5 over a frozen landscape at Bar... (more)

Loaded coal hustles over the fill at Barr Lake State Park. Stormy skies have given way to a happy sun filled ending.

BNSF 7145 muscles a coal past Barr Lake.

A pair of recently returned to service BNSF SD70MACs, dressed in former Burlington Northern 'Grinstein' colors, bring up the rear of westbound coal loads as they pass Barr Lake, CO on BNSF's Brush... (more)

BNSF 6236 rolls underneath some intense Summer afternoon storms as it heads West towards Denver.

An afternoon thunderstorm is brewing May 30,1966, as CB&Q F3A 127A/B lead an eastbound drag at Barr Lake northeast of Denver. The units wear Q’s famous “grayback” paint scheme, faded and wor... (more)

Two leased GE B40-8s with a fuel tank car between them rush a piggyback train west to Denver. Apparently this was a test to keep the train moving through fuel stops. Note the diminutive trucks u... (more)