Three thousand and two black horses move west high in the Rocky Mountains. Three thousand of them are in the form of a Rio Grande SD40T-2, leading a 56 car Craig Switcher at Hayden, Colorado.

Fully loaded, Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 departs the Energy Mine for Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee Plant in Denver. This crew will take the train as far as Phippsburg, where i... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 creeps along as its cars are flood loaded. The coal is from the Energy Mine at the end of the Energy Branch at the far reaches of the Denver & Salt Lake main ... (more)

With storms looming, Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 702 moves east on the Denver & Salt Lake main line near Milner, Colorado.

Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 701, westbound empties bound for the Energy Mine, rolls between Oak Creek and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Three of the latest additions to the Rio Grande roster,... (more)

Along the old Colorado Midland
After Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a once-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, ... (more)

A Grande Gold caboose brings up the markers on an old-school Rio Grande camp train moving west through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

An old-school Rio Grande camp train moves west through Palmer Lake, Colorado. The sandstone formation on the upper left is known as Elephant Rock.

With five assorted GP’s for power, a westbound Rio Grande manifest escapes the cloud cover just before ducking under Interstate 70 at Mack, Colorado.

The sun is setting both literally and figuratively on the Rio Grande Zephyr in this view on the Dotsero Cutoff at Dell, Colorado. When it gets to Denver, the RGZ will cease to exist,... (more)

Early Union Pacific locomotive consists on Colorado’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel line could be colorful as seen on April 2, 2001. Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 leads UP and Southern Pacif... (more)

After Union Pacific began operation of the Moffat Tunnel line in the wake of the Southern Pacific merger, there was a brief era when UP assigned Rio Grande’s GP60s to the Ski Train. On the morni... (more)

Loaded with coal bound for Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee plant in Denver, Rio Grande Train 702 approaches Oak Creek, Colorado.

Rio Grande empty train 701 parallels the Oak Creek east of Oak Creek, Colorado.

DRGW 3105 leads an eastbound manifest up the western grade of Tennessee pass.