Here is just a quick highlight of a photo that looks so nice it's worth sharing.  This photo of a BNSF GE unit at Palmer Lake is from F...

Today, we are finishing our look at Timothy Tonge's work along the Joint Line between Larkspur and Palmer Lake, an examination that woul...

Today being Tuesday, it's fitting to return with another Photo of the Day by Timothy Tonge. On July 23, 2019, it's not quite mid-mor...

It's been quite a while since we've had a Photo of the Day, so it should be a good one! A new photographer has been making quite an ...

On Monday evening, Walt Loevy caught the UP-led Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey circus train on it's way north through Monument on th...

Today we get a second shot from March 25 by Chris Paulhamus. When the weather is perfect like this, would you turn a second shot down? Tak...

A photographer can use a zoom lens to compress distance. It is one of its basic functions, but when one uses it well, it tends to produce ...

The small town of Sedalia just south of Denver had a little more than it could handle Thursday, February 6th, when a BNSF freight train dera...

There have been widespread road closures due to flooding , including I-25 in both directions from Denver to the Wyoming state line . In my e...

Photo: Frank Keller Sometimes railroad photography is nothing but a locomotive and a frame, or even a simple headlight or a machine used...

The Union Pacific Steam program is a veritable powerhouse of corporate goodwill that any Public Relations department would love to have. A...

According to Trains Magazine's News Wire , BNSF is sending a "fire train" to assist with protecting sections of the Joint Lin...

In 1970, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad merged to form the Burlington Northern. The new...

Burlington Northern (W) was gone only 2 years when Joe Blackwell snapped this photo of a BN triplet of SD70MACs in Executive or "Grin...

Mike Yuhas is a well-traveled photographer whose site is chock-full of great photos , primarily from the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. T...

Following up on last month's post, State's Sale of Railroad Has Colorado's Citizens Fearing the Future , V&S Railway has in...

Editor's Note: A cold, chronic illness symptoms, and Christmas shopping have had the cumulative effect of blocking at least two major po...

Eads, Colo. Sept 30, 1989 Photo: Jeff Van Cleve There was a time, 25 years ago, when a long stretch of rail in eastern Colorado was a vit...

As I write this, Union Pacific 844 , the FEF-3 that never retired, sits at the top of the world ...well, the top of the Palmer Divide, anywa...

Update:  10/21/2011 2:55 PM - As promised, I have  a full map of the stops in Colorado  with arrival and departure times. Union Pacific h...