Having been brought off the ready track at the roundhouse, the bulk of Colorado Railroad Museum's largest operating locomotive fills the turntable.

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight arcs along the Missouri River beneath the towering walls of Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 25, 2016.

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief splits a pair of intermediate semaphore signals near Las Vegas, N.M., eastbound on BNSF Railway's main line between Santa Fe, N.M., and Trinidad, Colo.

Setting off for Alamosa. With a train of boxcars and gondolas that was assembled in the yard at the 10,000 ft high Cumbres Pass Yard, Work Extra 315 departs eastbound for Alamosa, seen here... (more)

Amtrak No. 6 the eastbound California Zephyr rounds into the small community of No Name. I could be perfectly happy in that small cabin by the Colorado River.

A Union Pacific Salt Lake City to Council Bluffs passenger special rolls through Henefer along Interstate 84 on a stormy Sept. 14, 2016 afternoon.

Night fall at the Heber Valley Railroad

More than half a century ago, the Union Pacific Railroad posed passenger trains in Echo Canyon for publicity photos. On Sept. 14, 2016, a Salt Lake City to Council Bluffs passenger special looked ... (more)

Work Extra 315 approaches Cresco Tank. On this misty, late summer morning, Engineer Jeremy Garcia is using all of his years of experience and skill to keep little 315 on her feet as she cla... (more)

Work Extra 315 at Dalton. Just a few minutes prior to the alpine sunset, Work Extra 315 passes the private crossing at Dalton with a single boxcar and a short train of gons.

I waited he... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound Zephyr, cruises upgrade through a winter wonderland between Rollinsville and Tolland during a somewhat typical spring day in Colorado’s high country on April 20, 2003... (more)

The southernmost foothills of the Rocky Mountains shine in the early morning sun as Amtrak's Southwest Chief negotiates the tight bends of the famed Raton Pass.

Negotiating the curves entering Clay, Colorado, on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train on the afternoon of July 5, 2003. The head end is already a... (more)

The chase is on! After leaving Keddie midday, track work near Paxton delayed this train long enough that it ended up making a run down the heart of the Feather River Canyon in some awesome afterno... (more)

At sunrise on September 23, 2008, Montana Rail Link’s Polson Local, powered by MRL GP9 No. 111 and GP35 No. 402, heads north at milepost 16, between Charlo and Ronan, Montana. The magnificent Mi... (more)