Along Colorado’s front range it’s never too late in the season for a spring snowstorm. On a mid-April afternoon, 1967, Santa Fe E8M 81 leads train 28 though a thawing landscape near Larkspur o... (more)

One of the classiest of all F-unit paint schemes adorned CB&Q’S “greybacks,” an attractive off-white -- officially “imitation aluminum” -- with red stripes and a distinctive wing-like n... (more)

Portrait of a dinkie. In November, 1958, 0-4-0T number 13, a 1929 product of Davenport Locomotive Works, was shepherding cars of sugar beets at Great Western Sugar Company’s Loveland plant, its ... (more)

Seldom visited, seldom photographed, Rio Grande’s narrow gauge west of Chama had a distinctly southwestern flavor of mesas and buttes. Here, on October 25, 1963, five years before abandonment, K... (more)

On the last day of April, 1967, a spring blizzard is closing in as the PVSC, UP’s daily Provo-Salt Lake City local, eases down the hill behind GP9 297 and a string of motive power worthy of a ma... (more)

On the afternoon of October 24, 1965 Santa Fe 600/2133/604, an all-Alco RSD7-RSD5-RSD7 combination, grind up the three and half-mile climb from Monument at 6975 feet, to Palmer Lake at 7250 feet, ... (more)

Two years ago Missouri Pacific asked the ICC for permission to drop number 16, the Missouri River Eagle. But on April 26, 1965, the train known to local railroaders as the “Bird,” is still fly... (more)

Union Pacific 817 leads a trio of GP30s, including a rare GP30B, eastbound up the .82 percent approach to Hermosa Tunnel, apex of Sherman Hill and highest point on the railroad’s transcontinenta... (more)

For a brief period in 1966 Burlington and Rio Grande have been pooling motive power on a single freight west from Denver. Here on March 27 CB&Q 953 leads a five-unit matched set of GP30’s up the... (more)

At a time when more prosperous roads are side-lining first-generation diesels in favor of more modern power, a foursome of aging Missouri Pacific geeps led by GP9 1809 crosses the Trinity River Br... (more)

Union Pacific’s 10 SDP35s were originally ordered to replace aging E-units in passenger service, and they did, briefly. But by March 19, 1966, just six months after delivery, the 2500-hp units c... (more)

This is still mesquite and prairie grass in August, 1977, as Missouri Pacific 3186 heads to Fort Worth with another load of autos from the General Motors plant in Grand Prairie. The second unit, 3... (more)

On April 8, 1966, a matched set of GP30s and GP30Bs sweep under the north-south runway at Denver’s Stapleton Airport with the KCLAX, UP’s Kansas City-Los Angeles hotshot. The train has been ru... (more)

In 1963 EMD fielded a four-unit set of demonstrators – two of the new 2,500-hp GP35s bracketing a pair of its 5,000-hp twin-diesel DD35s. UP, which had already committed itself to the cabless DD... (more)

Reading’s big, home-built T-1 4-8-4s never looked so festive hauling Pennsylvania coal. But in 1977, steam entrepreneur Ross Rowland has decorated the 2101 in vermilion, yellow and blue for a su... (more)