The snow is falling fast as BNSF 9709 (SD70MAC) gets ready to lead the Beer Train from the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado to Denver.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Decker’s Bay with a freight, lost in the wintery wonderland of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains on February 6, 2007. The chartered photo freight is operating on ... (more)

After a long chilling wait standing in the frozen snow Amtrak's Empire Builder emerges from the trees onto the iconic Sunset Falls Bridge crossing over the mighty Skykomish River. Amtrak P42DC #20... (more)

Steam wraps around Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) as it gets ready to pull passenger cars around the grounds of the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Rio Grande Southern locomotive #20 (4-6-0) takes a spin on the turntable at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Bridgton & Saco River #7 whistles for the grade crossing on a frigid winter day. What could easily be a historic photograph is actually from the Grand Reunion of Steam hosted by the Wiscasset, Wat... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) lets off steam as it heats up for the evening's run of the Polar Express.

Colorado & Southern Rotary Plow #99201 sits on a track at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

That 70's Show: Redux

Meanwhile, we've trucked on down the other side of 'The Great Divide' while still remaining in the time-warp to 1972, we find the newly created 'Cumbres a... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) gets ready to leave the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

The Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western #318 (a Baldwin 2-8-0 built in 1896) has been moved to the track adjacent to the roundhouse.

An Executive Grinstein SD70MAC crosses a road in Golden, Colorado as it leads the Beer Train from the Coors Brewery to Denver in a snowstorm.

It wasn't unusual for 'rails' to chalk their inside jokes on each other's locomotives. In this case, 'swine' is a play on SD9 and the hoghead's nickname. What is unusual in this photo however is ... (more)

The snowfall blankets two Denver & Rio Grande Western engines from different eras.

The snow is falling fast on the Colorado Railroad Museum's Rio Grande Southern #7 Galloping Goose and other vintage treasures in Golden, Colorado.