Early October, 1964, word is out among Denver railfans that something new is coming to town. Fresh off the GE erecting floor at Erie, Pennsylvania, four of Burlington’s new U25Bs are making thei... (more)

Sun and cloud play tag with Rock Island 1298 and 360 as they head a short freight north on the Twin Cities line. Overnight rain has soaked fields and filled low-lying areas on this June 29, 1969, ... (more)

The one place on the Santa Fe in 1965, where one could be sure of finding an Alco PA or two is Santa Fe’s Argentine engine terminal in Kansas City, Kansas. On October 16, the 77, formerly 61B, p... (more)

On October 26, 1968 the annual fall sugar “campaign” is under way in Northern Colorado. Branch lines swarm with extras, light engine movements and caboose hops. Here at Dent, junction of the D... (more)

UP 4-8-4 836 and a set of E-units hustle across York Street minutes from Denver Union Terminal with Train 18, the in-bound Portland Rose, on one of the last regular passenger assignments behind st... (more)

In a clear case of lese-majeste, Santa Fe’s Super Chief, Train 18 behind FP45’s 100/103, has been forced to take the siding at Rowe, New Mexico, and cool its wheels waiting for a westbound Yor... (more)

In steam days, Union Pacific was one of Alco’s best customers, turning to the Schenectady, New York, builder for the Northerns, Challengers and Big Boys that were the epitome of modern power. Wi... (more)

Half an hour out of Silvis yard, FP7A 406 heads through the riverbottom swamps east of Colona, Illinois, on its way to Chicago. The unit, along with nine sisters, is four feet longer than a standa... (more)

Rio Grande’s Denver roundhouse and shop complex at Burnham are gone now, demolished early in 2016 in the name of progress. But on an afternoon visit back in June, 1962, the photographer encounte... (more)

Minutes out of Denver Union Station, Burlington 9988A sweeps past the 38th Street yard office with Number 10, the Denver Zephyr. It’s mid-January, 1965, and though the sun has barely set behind ... (more)

Still Santa Fe’s elegant flagship and one of the last of the great passenger trains in February, 1969, the Super Chief, Train 18, slows for a meet with a unit coal train just south of Glorieta, ... (more)

The holiday rush has hit Raton Pass on December 18, 1964, as Santa Fe second 17, the Los Angeles-bound Super Chief, heads for a quick stop in Raton behind F7A 46C. Second 17 seems to consist mainl... (more)

By the early 1960s Union Pacific was looking around for a diesel model to replace its turbines, something that, run in three-unit sets, could produce 15,000 hp. GE’s answer was the twin-engine U... (more)

Surely the second most beautiful thing in Daylight colors after the road’s celebrated 4-8-4’s, a matched set of Alco PA’s and PB’s basks outside Southern Pacific’s West Oakland Diesel Sh... (more)

A rarity on any railroad, Alco RSC-2 1288 rests near the cottonwoods in Ellis, Kansas, between runs on the nearby 124-mile Salina-Colby-Oakley branch. Developed out of an design for U.S. Army, the... (more)