Kids and Christmas are a natural fit for the magic and adventure of trains Photo: CarolinaWebDesign If you're a kid or a kid at h...

It's Thanksgiving, and the traditional opening of the Christmas season. Since trains and Christmas have a special relationship that'...

Union Pacific 844 and San Luis & Rio Grande 18 had an unannounced meet in Walsenburg, a town that's served as the long-time juncti...

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

Kevin Madore of Massachusetts caught the Eureka & Palisade engine #4, the Eureka , on the bridge leaving Silverton one bright August aft...

Rail photographers Skip Weythman and Dan Barker work as a two-man video team that does a very good job capturing the beauty of locomotives a...

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...

Today's POTD honors Colorado and her 135 years of statehood. Prior to August 1, 1876, Colorado was a territory carved out of portions o...

Prolific videographer Carlos Ferran , whose channel on YouTube, trainsruleandroll , is a shrine to all things Rio Grande, has yet another vi...

It's not even Monday and I already have good video of UP's 844 on the front of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Special that ran this wee...

Kimm Wierema, who lives with a family of railfans, managed to capture some really nice photos of UP 844 on its visit to Milliken, Colorado. ...

As previously announced here , UP 844 and a compliment of UP passenger equipment are making a special run to Milliken, Colorado for the city...

Colorado Railroads has a follow up on the post, " UP 844 To Visit Milliken On June 26 " According to Union Pacific's press rel...

It was bound to happen. With a continued lack of demand because of the recession, old locomotives that have seen their share of railroad mi...

The San Luis Valley has been a world unto itself for centuries. Cut off from the rest of Colorado by mountains on three sides, it has a rugg...

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club charter on May 21, 1950,  the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic is ru...

Every July, Union Pacific runs the special to Cheyenne Frontier Days from Denver to the parade and rodeo in the Wyoming capital. Thanks to K...

It's not too often that railfans get their own press space, but when we do, it's a story worth reading . Favorite quote: After touch...

The Rio Grande Southern's Galloping Goose Motor 5 from Dolores will be running on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic railroad this summer 2...