Burlington’s Alliance – Casper train 31 behind E8A 9966 pops out of cool, dark Tunnel 1 just east of Guernsey, Wyoming, and into the heat of a mid-summer afternoon. The tunnel is one of three alon... (more)
The 20 cars and caboose trailing SW1’s 62/63 up Walker Hill on Great Western Railway’s Longmont line would not seem too great a burden for the combined 1,200 hp. But the short southbound grade out... (more)
Twilight December 4 in the final days of the 1965 Colorado sugar campaign, Great Western Sugar Company 13, an 0-4-0T, simmers at the Loveland plant. Long after steam has vanished elsewhee from eve... (more)
Portrait of a dinkie. In November, 1958, 0-4-0T number 13, a 1929 product of Davenport Locomotive Works, was shepherding cars of sugar beets at Great Western Sugar Company’s Loveland plant, its pe... (more)
Big Blow 23 leads an extra east from North Platte, Nebraska, on October 22, 1966. The 8,500-hp turbine is typical of UP railroading in the mid-sixties, but for a moment take a closer look at the s... (more)