This BNSF load has a couple of SD70MACs as the power as it climbs Logan Hill on its way the power plant in Casper, WY. An odd sight indeed is a FRED (Flashing Rear-End Device) hanging on the plow ... (more)

UP 7625 leads five engines up Sherman Hill at Borie, WY.

After a quick crew change of less than 5 minutes, UP 1988 leads 3 brand new SD70ACes out from under the famous C&S bridge over the 4-track main. This was the first revenue run for UP 8671-8673.

After bringing 15 cars of happy passengers up the 4% grade from Chama, Cumbres & Toltec K36 #488 has just stopped at the top to fill its tender with water before uncoupling to head back to Chama. ... (more)

The then-daily Laurel to Missoula manifest is ready to depart Livingston for Bozeman pass, but first BNSF's Pasco to Laurel needs to clear the main. Once the helpers are off this train, they will ... (more)

A Hudson Bay Railway Geep leads the daily Great Western Railway train out of Loveland for Johnstown, seen here climbing the hill out of Loveland near Officer Junction. The locomotive doesn't seem ... (more)

C&TS Train 215 drops down the 4% Cumbres Pass, having just crossed the Colorado-New Mexico state line for the final time of the trip. Because this train is 10 cars, it appears to still be coming ... (more)

Still lettered "Rio Grande" for a special steam charter trip earlier in the week, C&TS K36 484 leads a long 11-car train 215 west out of Chama with caboose 0306 on the rear. For the nex... (more)

Running a Maintenance charter for the 'Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec,' locomotive 463 starts the train up after stopping briefly on a curve outside of Sublette.

UP 844 leads the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days train through the signals at the south end of Platteville siding. UP has been doing work on this part of the former Denver Pacific, meaning the telep... (more)

I was sitting just east of Hershey, NE, for what was probably the most spectacular sunset I had ever seen, just hoping a train would show up, but one never did. As I was packing my gear into the c... (more)

UP 5549 leads a grain empty under the C&S bridge at Cheyenne, WY, MP 511.

UP 844 and UP 6936 lead the annual Denver Post-sponsored Cheyenne Frontier Days train out of Nunn, CO, on July 23, 2011. At Nunn, the hill to Speer steepens, so the locomotives were working pretty... (more)

Once the helpers couple on the back of the train, MRL's Laurel to Missoula manifest will be ready to depart Livingston for Bozeman pass. Power for the LM was 371, 390, and 215. 371 and 215 have si... (more)

EMDX 9024 pulls up to the north switch of Longs Peak siding while it waits for the TacDen to clear the switch during the first snow of the season.