Guests at the historic Cliff House in Manitou Springs were turned out of their beds in the early hours of the morning to news of evacuation ...

In July 2009, BNSF 6851 was running long hood forward in Commerce City when an ethanol truck tried to beat it through a crossing . Had it be...

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...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were four western Class I railroads. Instead of yellow or orange locomotives, there were green ones...

Sometimes, it just takes an attentive eye to catch the unusual or interesting in a photo. Blogger-photographer Mikoyan captured such a deta...

Rio Grande Southern Motor 3, the third Galloping Goose, will not  be in attendance at Goosefest this weekend at the Colorado Railroad Museu...

Friday is the deadline for RTD's DUS light rail station photo contest. For those who haven't heard about this contest, the details a...

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

photo by Matt Isaaks As mentioned before, Goosefest on June 16 & 17 at the Colorado Railroad Museum is the first full Galloping Goo...

As the mercury slowly climbs out of winter and into our spring (hopefully), cabin fever has again sprung many images and ideas formerly lock...

Major Event The news out of Golden couldn't be more significant. For the first time since the abandonment of the Rio Grande Southern, al...

Today's Photo of the Day is awarded to James Griffin of www.actionroad.net . Few images seem to strike me as the many shots passengers ...

Last Friday marked the 63rd anniversary of the start of the California Zephyr , the fabled stainless steel streamliner operated by the Chica...

Sometimes a photographer takes a leap of faith with his audience and tries something new. Kevin Morgan, no stranger to CR's POTD, took s...

Kevin Madore, whose photo of the E&P #4 was our POTD yesterday returns for a double today with a photo from earlier in 2011. Rockwood is...

A Washington DC writer travels the Capitol Limited and California Zephyr to Nevada and San Francisco. Her trip was, in my own experience, a...

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

Back in (coal) Black Boy oh boy. I wish I could say I was in some exotic location, blogging about so-and-so's steam special and what a ...

I just read a very good "local living"  article floated by the Pueblo Chieftain. It describes a day at the Colorado Railroad Muse...