High in the Front Range of the Rockies 2 SD70M's struggle with a short ballast train. The train doesn't look like much, but it has these two SD70Ms down to a crawl....

Led by a GP39V still in BN paint, the Longmont Turn slowly accelerates away from the Valmont power plant heading toward it's next assignment on a warm January afternoon.

Three GEs elephant style lead a southbound stack train out of Boulder, CO with the Flatirons of the Front Range with the Valmont Power Plant in the background.

BNSF 4977 brings a late coming Tacoma, WA to Omaha, NE stack train past the Valmont Power Plant located in Boulder, CO.

The Ski Train powers thru the Flatirons on one of the most scenic climbs in the world....

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, climbs through a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.

One of the most Herculean jobs in modern railroading is lifting trains up and thru the Continental Divide in Colorado. UP6055 lifts a heavy westbound manifest at Tunnel One on the Moffat Road. Th... (more)

Two Ferromex ES44ACs lead an empty Windmill Blade Train from Pasco, WA to Corpus Christi, TX that is seen leaving the city of Boulder on their way towards Denver, then Texas.

Leave'n The Rockies Behind Two Ferromex ES44ACs lead an empty Windmill Blade Train from Pasco, WA to Corpus Christi, TX that is seen leaving the city of Boulder and passing the Valmont Powe... (more)

An empty Windmill Train from Pasco. WA to Corpus Christi, TX is lead by foreign power as it moves south with the Xcel Energy Power Plant and the snow capped Rocky's in the background.

northbound BNSF train on Front Range Sub exC&S Denver to Cheyenne main near Boulder, CO

Seen holding the main with 15 cars in tow, the BNSF Longmont "Buck" Local has some added power in the form of a EMD SD70ACe and two additional units, after setting out cars at a recycling facility... (more)

BNSF 6418, UP 7257 and UP 6257 shove back loaded coal cars into the Xcel Energy Plant (Valmont) at Boulder, CO. The Valmont Train, as its known, originates at the Energy Mine on the Craig Branch.... (more)

One of a parade of coal trains heads toward Denver on the Moffitt, high above Eldorado Canyon State Park

A 75 car Ballast train sandblasts its way thru the Flatirons on a sunny March Morning along the Front Range.... The train was 5x2 DPU'd