Seen from atop the rocks at Hermosa, an eastbound stack train is seen crossing the High Plains on an unusually balmy Fall day, with nary a breath of wind.

The action is pretty continuous at Cheyenne and the view off the bridge overlooking the depot is always worth a look as trains stop in pretty much the ideal position when changing crews. A uniform... (more)

Running against the current of traffic on a one way street at the regulation 10mph and with liberal use of the horn, a southbound manifest for Denver makes its way down Mason Street. This was my f... (more)

With a pair of GEVO's up front and another pair on the rear for a combined 17,600hp, a pair of SD75M's and a single SD60M add an additional 11,600hp to assist these coal loads up the Crawford Hill... (more)

I'm guessing that this view has been radically altered by the recent double-tracking project currently on-going in Abo Canyon. Here still in full Santa Fe dress, 4 axle Dash 8 7416 leads a trio ... (more)

Under towering stratocumulus cloud small GM's 146 and 190 take a ballast train for Portarlington over the River Barrow. Dating from 1962 and 1966 respectively, these locos are on borrowed time wit... (more)

A manifest dominated by boxcars heads east into Abo Canyon with the Warbonnet liveried Dash 8 accompanied by GP60B 343 as sole power. If one of these units had failed things might have got very tr... (more)

A pair of Re4/4's powering the 15.09 Zurich - Milano just run into a patch of sun as the seemingly everpresent cloud on the top of the mountains briefly shifts.

Like veritable streetcars, coal trains, both loaded and empty, pound Union Pacific's rails through Lusk, the largest town in Niobrara County. Approaching the US 18/85 overpass are more empties hea... (more)

Robinson 04 heads a loose coupled demonstration freight at the 2007 Great Central Railway winter gala.

A westbound engineers train for Glendive snakes through the North Dakota Badlands behind a pair of Heritage 1 liveried SD40-2s. An entirely appropriate description as I nearly stood on a rattler h... (more)

With visible evidence of the strain rising into the air, a pair of MAC's and a pair of GEVO's fight the curvature and gravity rounding Breezy Point. Very unusually all the power is on the front en... (more)

A Hupac train from Italy heads out of Wattinger Tunnel on the lower of the three levels at Wassen, conveying lorries and their drivers in the lead coach.

A pair of former Burlington Northern SD60M's and a former ATSF SD75M push coal loads up Crawford Hill, the headend wrapped around one Horseshoe curve and the rear just exiting the first. Two GE AC... (more)

A BNSF coal loads is slowly overhauling a southbound UP coal loads thanks to a slightly superior power to weight ratio.