The arrival of the evening's #6 California Zephyr in the Colorado Rocky Mountains coincided with the beginning of a strong winter snow storm. Here Amtrak engine 23 (P42DC) runs through heavy snow... (more)

The #5 California Zephyr has left Denver in the morning and runs through Coal Creek Canyon with three power units, perhaps in anticipation of the snowstorm that is suppose to hit later in the day.... (more)

For now at least coal is still king on the Joint Line between Denver and Colorado Springs. Here BNSF 5854 (ES44AC) leads a full load through the S curve at Castle Rock, Colorado.

A refreshed BNSF 9728 (SD70MACe) in Heritage III paint pulls a loaded coal around Palmer Lake and will soon begin the decent into Monument, Colorado.

BNSF 9254 (SD70ACe) leads one of the many coal trains that run between Denver and Colorado Springs on the Joint Line.

BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) climbs the hill out of Douglas County on the way to Sedalia, Colorado with a mixed freight.

Sleet and fog greet an early morning Z train led by BNSF 5902 (ES44AC) as it runs through the Black Forest of Larkspur, Colorado.

The crew of BNSF 8963 (SD70MAC) fire up the engine at the Longmont, Colorado depot in preparation for heading to the yard and lashing up to a freight that they will then take to Fort Collins.

A spruced up MAC in Heritage III paint leads a coal train on the outskirts of Palmer Lake. Good to see the MAC's working lead duty again!

This was the moment that the California Zephyr led by Amtrak engine 19 (P42DC) blasted through a four foot snow drift during the massive March 14th Snowmageddon snowstorm. The explosion of snow c... (more)

A former Cascade Green Burlington Northern and a former AT&SF silver and red Warbonnet were caught in the BNSF servicing yard during the Snowmaggedon storm. It would be three days after the storm... (more)

The March blizzard included sustained winds of 30-40 mph, blowing the wet snow in a horizontal direction and coating anything metal with a layer of ice and snow.

UP 8682 (SD70ACe) leads a long train of new military vehicles through Monument, Colorado.

The massive winter storm is coated the Denver Leadville & Gunnison 191 (2-8-0) locomotive with a blanket of white snow, accentuating the curves of the boiler and the Congdon stack.

The Rio Grande Southern 'Galloping Goose' no. 7 got a heavy blanket of snow during the Snowmageddon storm of March 14th. You can almost imagine this scene right out of the late 1940's / early 195... (more)