A March blizzard in 2021 dropped nearly two feet of snow along the Front Range of Colorado, shutting down all rail traffic for two days.
Three Canadian Pacific GMD GP9's in original paint scheme. Photo from my slide collection. No photographer listed on slide.
The California Zephyr passes Barr Lake at sunrise as it heads towards Denver, Colorado on the Brush Sub.
The fog is thick at Plainview, Colorado as the California Zephyr heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
A nice quiet wait in anticipation of a train coming into view. Then the train comes around the bend and gets closer and closer rising and falling along the hills and sags of the mainline. Pretty s... (more)
Eastbound Sea-Land stack train NTV-4 passes the site of the Erie yard in Deposit, New York. The Agway building has been a landmark for decades.
On November 1, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern freight works over Marias Pass at Marias, Montana, powered by three SD40-2s. This early snowstorm effected much of the northern part of the cou... (more)
UP 1019 was built in 1989 as a GP60 for the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt). It now runs in Armour Yellow and is seen here waiting for an assignment in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denv... (more)
BNSF 9709 (SD70MAC) waits in the BNSF yard in Golden, Colorado for orders to take the Coors Beer Train to Denver.
UP 1019 (ex Cotton Belt GP60) waits for the chance to shuffle cars in the Union Pacific's North Yard.
The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado has an amazing set of old engines and rolling stock. One such standout is Rio Grande Southern #7 Galloping Goose which is operable and will take p... (more)
BNSF 2718 (GP39-2) runs along Packinghouse Road as it pics up a cut of cars in the Stockyards area of Denver, Colorado.
Snow is falling fast as the California Zephyr runs through Tunnel 29 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
Conductor Al Bloudnt and Santa Clause at the Colorado Railroad Museum
BNSF 2718 (GP39-2) pulls a cut of freight cars out of the area known as The Stockyards in central Denver, Colorado.
