The worker sent out to attend to engine 44’s needs between runs must feel more like he’s boarding a ship than climbing onto a locomotive. Just how big is General Electric’s massive U50? At o... (more)

The end is very near for Rock Island on July 15, 1979, as GP7R 4552 leads a matched set of jeeps under Loop 12 in Irving toward Dallas. Rock Island diesels and cars have been dressed in “Ingramâ... (more)

On June 27, 1965 nothing along Colorado’s Joint Line is as it should be. Ten days after massive floods shut down almost all rail traffic into and out of Denver, trains are just starting to move ... (more)

Some sort of test is underway September 18, 1963, as two-thirds of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic roster, the 4001 and 4003, coupled to a dynamometer car and an unidentified geep, p... (more)

Storming Archer Hill in a March snowstorm about to become a blizzard, U50 32 and a pair of GP30B’s head an extra out of Cheyenne for North Platte. Less than a year old in 1964, all three engines... (more)

Peak summer travel season has begun, and Union Pacific’s combined City of Los Angeles-San Francisco is running in two sections, one to accommodate first-class travelers and a second for the coac... (more)

Creeping along in unfamiliar territory, Rock Island U25B 210 makes its way past damaged right-of-way at Spruce on Colorado’s Joint Line, on its way to Denver with piggyback and auto loads. The ... (more)

Just days out of General Electric’s Erie works on June 28, 1964, and showroom fresh, Southern Pacific U50 8500 simmers under the El Paso sun, about to lend its considerable 5,000 hp to a westbo... (more)

This is why, six years after the end of steam, fans still head for Union Pacific’s Sherman Hill. On September 25, 1965, GTEL 11 leads a GP30-DD35-DD35B-DD35B combination – some 25,750 hp. in a... (more)

Minutes out of Rio Grande’s North Yard, Rock Island GP35 315 leads a collection of second-generation EMD and GE units on train 82 at Brighton Boulevard on Denver’s Belt Line, headed for the UP... (more)

Hurtling through Iowa City, Iowa, early on a June morning in 1966, Train 8, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, is running about five hours late behind E6A 631 and an unidentified second unit. Normally its... (more)

The semaphore blade is just starting to drop as Southern Pacific Train 3, the Golden State, speeds south near Vaughn, New Mexico. Rock Island handed off command of the train for the remainder of i... (more)

Rio Grande liked Alco switchers and the road bought two Alco PA/B/A sets for passenger service. But freight, not so much. Five RS3s found their way onto the roster in 1951 and, unlike competing E... (more)

Patches of a previous snowfall remain on the ground and more is coming this afternoon in March, 1964 as Alco-GE GTEL 58 climbs Archer Hill east of Cheyenne. The turbine will take this mixed freigh... (more)

Colorado’s famous Joint Line starts here. Already running on Rio Grande rails, Santa Fe F7A 247 heads an ABBBA set of F’s out of Denver on a hazy April morning, bound for La Junta via Colorado... (more)