Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 2912 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944. It currently resides in front of the Union Depot in downtown Pueblo, in need of some TLC and black paint.

The rail yards in Minturn, Colorado have been quiet since 1997, which is the year that the Tennessee Pass line was shut down by the Union Pacific. The rail yards began in 1887 when the Denver and... (more)

If trainspotting and tracking engine movements from flag to flag are your thing, then one visit to the UP North Yard (hurry before they transfer operations to Arkansas early next year) will provid... (more)

AMTK 87 gets a friendly greeting from two track workers as it backs the morning train into Denver's Union Station..

A former Southern Pacific engine stopped by the North Yard for servicing. Seeing a SP unit in the Denver area is becoming increasingly uncommon.

A pair of matched BNSF ES44AC sets wait in the Denver engine servicing yard for their orders, likely to be assigned a string of coal cars later that day to be taken north or south.

As AMTK 189 (P42DC) lead a triple headed California Zephyr through the Denver Yard at slow speed the baggage car and a sleeper car jumped off the rails. Both trucks of the baggage car jumped but ... (more)

This is the train version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This GP7u was built in 1952 for the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and carried the blue and yellow "bluebonnet" pai... (more)

This week the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado added a Denver & Rio Grande Western tunnel motor survivor (UP patched 9871 and former DRGW 5401) to its impressive collection. After bei... (more)

One of the few signs that Denver's entire lower downtown area was once a thriving railroad industrial yard are the numerous railroad bridges from the early 1900's that span the Cherry Creek. They... (more)

It been nearly two years since the Union Pacific's Big Boy hit the rails and with the recent announcement of the upcoming fall trip, excitement is building to once again chase this fantastic beast... (more)

It's a colorful morning at the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver. Warbonnets, pumpkins, cascade greens, an EMDX blue, and a blue and yellow Santa Fe in the rear.

UPY 681 (GP15-1) sits among mates in the Union Pacific North Yard in Denver waiting for service and assignments.

UP 7400 (ES44AC) leads a freight toward Cheyenne and passes an old Plymouth which has seen better days.

Looking like an unfinished model train layout, the BNSF engine shop yard gets new sections of track installed.