Still displaying its “Texas Zephyr” lettering, Colorado & Southern EMD E5 No. 9952-A powers a passenger special at the Illinois Railroad Museum at Union, Illinois, in September 1984. In more recen... (more)

Colorado & Southern? Nope; it is ex DRGW 1523 built in 1976. I can find very little about why with was caboose was painted in a odd purple C&S scheme. I did find it was in Clovis, New Me... (more)

A lucky little boy gets to ride in the fireman’s seat of Colorado & Southern EMD E5 No. 9952-A as it powers a passenger train at the Illinois Railroad Museum in September 1984. C&S was a subsidiar... (more)

Colorado & Southern 839 (MTM's BN 6234) crossing the Cedar Bend Drawbridge over the St. Croix River. Photo made possible by a S&B Productions photo charter and MTM's Osceola & St. Croix Valley Ra... (more)

Three SD45s await their next assignment at the engine facility in Auburn.

A decrepit Colorado & Southern caboose is used by BNSF as a shoving platform at an industrial park in Washougal, Washington. The park is near the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge.

The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado recently celebrated is 60th year, advertising their birthday on this Colorado & Southern caboose #1009. This museum is a must see for railfans, and... (more)

Colorado and Southern SD40-2 No. 880 and two other EMDs smoke it up as the roar eastward through Montana with a BN manifest. The train is on BN's ex-Northern Pacific mainline. This line is now own... (more)

The last standard gauge Class 1 steam locomotive to operate in the USA now resides next to the former Colorado & Southern station in Leadville, CO.

This locomotive was built in December, 1896, by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway. It was acquired two years later by the newly formed Co... (more)

The sign at Federal marks the siding a few miles north of Cheyenne.

In the lonely outpost of Federal a nice looking consist has a manifest in tow.

In the rack at Cheyenne, this power will go out later on a northbound.

This Colorado & Southern 641 was built in July of 1906 by the American Locomotive Company and ran local freight around Leadville, Colorado and also made runs to the Climax gold mine. It is on dis... (more)

The Burlington Northern was just five months old as Colorado & Southern U30C and a GE mate accelerated west through Berwyn, IL, with a freight out of Cicero yard. C&S 891 was one of four U30Cs del... (more)