A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD70Ms, Nos. 5107 and 5105, are wrapped and patched for Rocky Mountaineer Railtours on the train’s first season operating in Colorado and Utah on November 16, 2021. T... (more)

Byers Canyon on the Colorado River is one of the first of many the river fortuitously carved for the fledgling Denver and Salt Lake and Denver and Rio Grande railroads. A spring day finds UP 6852 ... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest freight train negotiates Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on November 16, 2021. With the time of year and the area’s drought conditions, the Colorado... (more)

“Rockies to the Red Rocks,” the U.S. edition of the Rocky Mountaineer tour train, follows the Colorado River eastbound through Byers Canyon just west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on Novem... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr follows the Colorado River through Byers Canyon just west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, while traveling west over Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on No... (more)

The westbound Rocky Mountaineer tour train follows the Colorado River through Byers Canyon just west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on November 14, 2021. A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD70Ms, Nos... (more)

A nice gap in the clouds greets the ex-SP DPU on a long coal train as they work through Byers Canyon.

Bent in Byers Canyon
Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr hugs the rock walls of Byers Canyon as it snakes along the Colorado River just west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on Novem... (more)

Beyers Canyon Winter Storm Light

Westbound working through a fresh foot of powder into the burst of light in between 2 significant snow squalls one situated over Pagosa... (more)

Union Pacific MNYPV has just entered the magnificent Byers Canyon just west of Hot Sulphur Springs, CO.

A trio of Amtrak GE P42DCs pull a long California Zephyr through Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on February 16, 2002.

The sun tries hard to break through the clouds as BNSF 7240 thunders through the narrow confines of Byers Canyon amidst a rather dull spring landscape.

A westbound coal load snakes its way through Byers Canyon in Hot Sulphur Springs.

On the afternoon of November 7, 2012, a westbound Union Ppacific manifest freight negotiates the sharp curve exiting Byers Canyon west of Sulphur, Colorado.

While its not the best looking GEVO on the BNSF locomotive roster, I'll take it when you get great light and it might be the only freight you get all day. BNSF freight HPVODEN utilizes trackage ri... (more)