On a humid, overcast April morning in1965, Rock Island FA-1 141 and a companion work their way along Kansas City Terminal tracks near Van Brunt Boulevard with an endless string of refrigerator car... (more)

Waiting in the clear at Rollinsville for the westbound California Zephyr to pass, F7A’s 5741 and 5744 are headed back to Denver on January 30, 1966, with Rio Grande’s wreck train after two day... (more)

Still the Silver Lady and the favorite of passengers after almost two decades, on January 30, 1966, Train 17, the California Zephyr, cruises westward at Rollins, 42 miles out of Denver and 8 miles... (more)

Although it wears a fresh coat of Rock Island’s maroon-and-white, GP40 348 is Union Pacific-owned, running on Union Pacific rails. Westbound here at Muncie, Kansas, just west of Kansas City on M... (more)

Six units, six paint schemes – in 1963 not an uncommon sight at the head end of Rock Island freight 82 out of Denver, here behind F7A 126. The train, mostly empty auto racks and interchange gath... (more)

The Rocky Mountain Rocket, almost exactly halfway on its 91-mile journey across the old Kansas Pacific from Denver to Limon, Colorado, passes beneath a cluster of cottonwoods, those ancient sentin... (more)

Kansas branchline action by the mid-1960s is a hit-or-miss proposition. But here in mid-October, 1965, UP GP9 251 is scurrying along west of Hoxie, westbound with the Plainville branch local freig... (more)

You never knew what you might encounter at Rio Grande’s North Yard in the mid- to late-60s. The Grande’s own roster was unexciting -- lines of Geeps, F-units and SW1200 switchers. The wild car... (more)

The Golden State and its predecessor the Golden State Limited have been plying these rails since 1902, but by July 28,1967, the end is less than seven months away. The joint SP-CRI&P Chicago-Los A... (more)

Colorado & Southern’s Globeville Branch snaked through Denver to serve the historic Globe Smelter and the city’s extensive stock yards, both of which in January, 1959, still provided enough tr... (more)

Running a little late, E6A 15 speeds number 12, the Chicagoan, along the High Line between Holliday Junction and Kansas City on an October afternoon in 1965. The Dallas-Chicago train -- mostly hea... (more)

With Denver’s skyline and the front range of the Rockies in the background, DD35A 79 is accelerating at East 88th Avenue on April 16, 1966, on its way to Wyoming and points west. The train, Kans... (more)

First thing Saturday I’d drive from engine terminal to engine terminal, taking inventory, checking to see what’s in, what’s new, what’s old. This usually took about an hour. But on October... (more)

Called out of storage to help with the harvest, UP USRA 2-8-2 2498 has been gathering sugar beets. Now, late in the afternoon, train and crew dash for the Great Western Sugar Company refinery at B... (more)

UP’s KCLA – Kansas City-Los Angeles manifest – was short-lived attempt by the railroad to avoid the congestion of its transcontinental main across Nebraska by running a daily Kansas City- Lo... (more)