Train Time at Winter Park WPE is Early! And early, daylight savings and backing up an hour blessed us with first light over the Great Divide over Winter Park Resort for the arrival of th... (more)

Golden Ski Train Sunrise plays a tapestry of light and shadow with the rolling fields of the high plains below the Front Range between Denver and Plainview with Winter Park Express hig... (more)

Goat Boats! 25 year old “Goat Boats” BNSF 1016 and 1018 in first merger scheme of the BNSF lead the SLAPVO from Denver on October 2, 2022.

Winter Sunrise on Denver
Westbound just after first light Amtrak 1105 the WPE is leaning into it at Leyden just after 0730.

Deep Snow and Sand
Hiding out behind some heavily flocked pines despite backlit the morning sun delights the senses in a winter wonderland view of Crescent after a foot or more of sn... (more)

First Light at MP 503
Racing the rising sun. I stand in the dark watching the light creep up from my wet vantage point beneath the super elevated curve between MP 503 and 502... (more)

Code Poles and Track Speed
Ed Dickens is on the fireman side for his watchful eye over the Overland Route right of way in western Nebraska. Running track speed near Ogallala, N... (more)

Winter Park Express Arrival

Moments after emerging from Moffat West Portal at Winter Park Resort the Winter Park Express has begun detraining eager skiers and vacationing... (more)

The Storms over Denver & Big Ten

Storms continue to leave heavy rain and hail over the suburbs of Denver and the High Plains. The evening sun brings out a rainbow and is ab... (more)

Union Pacific The Big Boy is just departing Denver for Cheyenne in the midst of a classic November, Colorado Wyoming blizzard. By the time the Big Boy reaches Wyoming nearly a foot of snow had com... (more)

Union Pacific 1989 leads a Rock & Rail train out of the Royal Gorge. Shot on Mavic Zoom.