I came across this odd find while out driving the east side area. A pink BNSF 643 creeps over rout 3 on TRRA's Merchants Bridge on it's way to Terminals Madison yard. Locomotives: BNSF 643, BNS... (more)

D&RGW train #150 is eastbound and in the canyon between Avon and Minturn a few minutes before arriving at the crew change location at the foot of Tennessee Pass.

After taking a short break at the Pit Stop in Spanish Fork, D&RGW crew members Doug Miller, Shirl Jackman and Glade Collard pose for the camera on Feb. 10, 1995. Rio Grande employees are some of t... (more)

Switch brooms and a cigar band logo on the nose, this is railroading.

Richard Beal photo: The late great DRGW moving some coal out of Steamboat with a shiny SD50 on the front and some more normally dirty power behind.

Count them: One, Two, Three, Four, FIVE SD45s!!! Here's the only time I ever saw a Rio Grande train with five big SD45s for power. This hotshot westbound is heading through Provo Yard moments befo... (more)

The rear end helpers, 5396, 5333, 5322, help push 100-car #790 eastbound coal out of Belden siding at Red Cliff towards Tennessee Pass in November 1981. Ahead on the point are 3099 3033 3056 3014... (more)

An eastbound freight, led by 5333, 3061, 3090 and 3126, snakes through Byers Canyon on a snowy day in December 1981.

Half length #790 (50 cars) eastbound loaded coal eases out of Minturn on a snowy February day in 1982, heading by 3090, 3112, 3085, 3100, with another eight GPs as swing helper. The name "Minturn"... (more)

An eastbound coal, behind 5358 5379 5367 5413 5401, sits in the hole at Glenwood Springs awaiting a short westbound freight in October 1981. An brief overnight fall of snow sits on the adjacent mo... (more)

With the photographer having waded through knee deep snow, 3090 3112 3085 3100 slowly crawl up through the Mitchell curves towards Tennessee Pass on #790 eastbound coal, with mid-train helpers 300... (more)

A westbound manifest on Gilluly horseshoe curve. Interesting that the second unit is 5340, the last in the SD45 class, and the last unit, 5331, was the first.

Rio Grande SD45 5333 begins the climb up the eastern slope of the Soldier Summit grade with a Southern Pacific Lines freight.

BNSF Westbound Vehicle Train at Siberia, Ca. on BNSF'S Needles Sub