Just a few hours after the grade crossing accident and ensuing fire, Mid East Rail Service crews have the heavy equipment up and working to get the NCDOT locomotive back on track and reopen the ra... (more)

27 miles out of Denver Union Station, the Denver & Rio Grande Western route turns west into Tunnel 8, penetrating the imposing Flatirons during its climb toward the Moffat Tunnel and continental d... (more)

The Ski Train aka Winter Park Express kicks up snow on a cold and blustery Rocky Mountain afternoon.

The sign says it all - last run to Slate Hill for the M&NJ, the end of an era.

A young woman boards the southbound Carolinian at Durham.

In the 1880s the CB&Q constructed a line form Midland, NE to Cheyenne, WY through the prairies of northeastern Colorado. While the land was advertised as somewhat of an agricultural paradise, the ... (more)

As luck would have it, I happened to drop in to Silverton for a quick afternoon pit stop when I heard a steam whistle much later in the afternoon than usual. Upon further inspection, it was the D&... (more)

On a dark and gloomy morning, unusual in Colorado's high country, a UP coal train is negotiating the first curves of Byers Canyon alongside the Colorado River.

This past weekend Colorado got a doozie of a spring snowstorm. Denver only saw a few inches of accumulation due to melting, but just a few miles outside of town as the tracks enter the foothills n... (more)

A layer of thick clouds has built up over the Rockies at dusk, leaving just a strip of clear sky visible as an empty coal train rumbles westbound, illuminating the ROW ahead.

Sweatin' Steel! If I recall correctly, my father took me out of my 2nd grade class to go see the crew in the Strasburg shops change tires on one of their steam locos. A very educational field trip... (more)

The sun rises directly over the Denver skyline, just a blip on the horizon from this vantage point about 16 miles away. Below, a coal train is stretched out over Big Ten Curve as it begins the cli... (more)

Let me take this opportunity to shay "Happy Holidays" to everyone! Sorry, sorry, that was terrible. Back in 1992, the Pine Creek Railroad at Allaire State Park was still running multiple steam eng... (more)

"Top Hat" GP38-2 smokes it up as it accelerates uphill with a cut of coal cars for the UNC Cogeneration Facility. The co-evolution of a number of industries and the railroad led to an odd arrangem... (more)

Brakes are squealing as the North Carolina Transportation Museum "Blue Ridge Special" is eastbound back to Spencer, seen here exiting one of several tunnels on the west end of the loops.