The presence of a company photographer, officials, and other supernumeraries tells us this is no ordinary train parked at Tenneco north of Denver. In mid-June, 1965, UP has dispatched a special fr... (more)
Coming and going at Cheyenne’s west end, outbound 8500-hp GE turbine 15 encounters an arriving extra behind GP35 749, two DD35Bs and a DD35A, a 17,500-hp combination. Union Pacific likes to do t... (more)
Three weeks into spring, winter still blankets the right-of-way along Colorado’s Joint Line as Fort Worth and Denver 751-A rumbles through Louviers, a few miles south of Denver. On April 15, 196... (more)
The curve at Palmer Lake had been a favorite with railroad photographers for decades, all the more so this June 27,1965, as traffic returns to the Joint Line after a massive series of floods wiped... (more)
The dwarf signal tells us that we are alongside Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at Union Station, where nameless Train 15, formerly the Kansas City Rocket, is just rolling in from Minneapolis-... (more)