Wheels of varying size ride along a wheel flatcar as they are most likely headed for a scrap yard to be torn down and then recycled into another form of steel.

Hours earlier this NS Dash 9 visitor from the South delivered a train of empty cement hoppers to the GCI cement facility south of the steel mill and is now seen taking a break on the fueling track... (more)

In an interesting move, today's Rock & Rail train is only powered by one locomotive instead of the usual two and is seen abou... (more)

This morning’s DENKCK with two Dash 9s and 103 cars wait patiently at Pueblo Junction for a UP special train comprised entirely of wind blades to shove back into their yard.

Hecho en México
A brand new cut of 3250 cubic foot covered hoppers intended for cement service and built in June of this year at the Gunderson Concarril plant in Mexico are in the pr... (more)

Today’s Canon City local has finished its daily chores and now finds itself about to drop off its cut of cement hoppers in the massive UP yard at Pueblo. The consist is even more unique today w... (more)

While trucks may bring it, railroads usually haul it. And they can haul all sorts of things like a brand new Boeing 737 fuselage as seen here. Only requiring the use of two specialty flush deck ... (more)

Four Boeing 737 fuselages prepare to drop a clear signal in Fountain as the KCKSPO continues the journey west towards Washington with the unique loads at the front. For a more detailed shot of th... (more)

Brand New
A three pack of newly assembled TTX boxcars from the Gunderson Concarril plant in Mexico built in June of 2013 make what is most likely their first run into the Centennial S... (more)

The nearly uniform rear section of a 60 car unit tank train carrying Texas Tea rolls smoothly atop continuous welded strands of 136 p... (more)

Second Chance
After a lengthy life on the railroad hauling the usual commodities of sugar, flour and starch, this beauty of a covered hopper built by General American in the mid-60s n... (more)

Numerous flatcars built or modified to carry 80 foot sticks of rail bring up the end of today's Hill Cut local and show off a bowed appearance as their empty bodies await another load of heavy rai... (more)

A lone SD40-2 is all that’s required to work a few customers east of downtown Pueblo as the Y-PUE201 is seen coming back into the yard running a respectable long hood forward.

The sun tries to break through the impending afternoon cloud movements and prevails one last time as it illuminates both the ex-Rio Grande and Santa Fe yards full of vintage equipment with the nam... (more)

Renewable
Couplers from scrapped railcars head into the BNSF yard where they’ll most likely be sent to a foundry that manufactures this railway component so their metal compositions ... (more)