Santa Fe E8M 81 leads the Denver-LaJunta Train 191 at Colorado Springs, Colorado in August 1968. Santa Fe E8M 81 was rebuilt by EMD in 1953 from a 1937 model EMC E1A #4. Santa Fe owned the enti... (more)

UP 2543 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight on the Joint Line through Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

A single Union Pacific motor brings a long Vestas blade train into the north end of Colorado Springs on the Joint Line.

Simple Sleeper. The more than decade long restoration of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) 470 (Pullman narrow gauge Tourist-Sleeper Car, 1889) is nearing completion at the Pike's Peak Trolley... (more)

One of the first of the BNSF 25th Anniversary 'Heritage' engines lead a loaded coal train from Denver to Trinidad. BNSF 6017 was just rebuilt and is so clean that it almost looks like a HO scale ... (more)

Three General Electric motors descend down the Palmer Divide, through Downtown Colorado Springs, with the Seattle, Q-train as an empty coal train holds the siding. While the the train is a classi... (more)

A fresh looking UP 9097 (SD70AH) crosses a river in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

UP 2543 (AC45CCTE) runs the Joint Line through Colorado Springs, passing the trusty chase vehicle that will enable us to catch her later at Fountain, Colorado.

Another day another coal train on the Joint Line.

The sunrise is only a couple minutes old as the bright sun casts a glow over BNSF 5681 as it crosses under a bridge in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado.

A loaded oil train descend down the Palmer Divide rumbles through Colorado Springs on a chilly December afternoon.

BNSF's Colorado Springs-based local works the beer distributor at the extreme north end of the Roswell Spur. This trackage was once part of the original Santa Fe right of way through Colorado Spr... (more)

Union Pacific's Colorado Springs local is headed up the Roswell Spur behind a Rio Grande GP40-2. The train is about to cross under N Cascade Ave, shortly after entering the spur from the Colorado... (more)