Early morning in Phippsburg, Colorado finds a cushioned underframe, double door, fifty foot box car in the most iconic Rio Grande paint scheme at the end of a cut of cars.

Rare Rio Grande boxcar
On September 26, 2020, Denver & Rio Grande Western boxcar No. AX-60080 sits in the yard at Phippsburg, Colorado, located on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Cra... (more)

Leaving Phippsburg for the Energy Mine, Rio Grande Train 701 is about to duck under Colorado Route 131.

Rio Grande Train 701 waits to depart the west end of the yard in Phippsburg, Colorado. The train of empty hoppers arrived earlier from Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee Generation Station in... (more)

A pair of AC4400CWs serve as the rear helpers on an empty train leaving Phippsburg, CO. The train will proceed north-northwest along the branch for loading in the Steamboat Springs area.

The sun peeks out behind a cloud as coal empties from the Public Service Company of Colorado gets ready to depart Phippsburg, Colorado on October 1, 2016. The crew just finished adding their mid-t... (more)

A few years ago UP ran an Operation Life Saver special on the former Rio Grande Craig Branch. A friend and I drove up the night before and took a few night photos in the Phippsburg Yard. The next ... (more)

Cold air blower "Air Forced One" on a Hi-Railer of the Union Pacific in Phippsburg, Co. The equipment from RPM Tech from Canada is used to blow away snow and ice. From the RPM website: T... (more)

A frosty winter morning in the yard of Phippsburg (crew change point) on the Craig branch of the Moffat line. A long empty coal train is waiting to go forward to the mines, with AC4400CW # 6664 an... (more)

Colorado's colorful autumn is stretching well beyond its normal peak this year as evidenced by the brilliant foliage still on display in mid-October near Steamboat Springs. This coal empty is wait... (more)

A loaded UP coal train travels through the hills of northwest Colorado, the landscape blanketed with reds and oranges of late fall. In the distance to the north, the well-known slopes of Steamboat... (more)

A Union Pacific Operation Life Saver Passenger train rolls through the high country north of P-Burg on the ex-DRGW Craig Branch with 3 E-Units in push-pull configuration. It was a beautiful day fo... (more)

Judging by the graded right-of-way, particularly north of Oak Creek, you are looking at an original piece of (unpatched) Rio Grande equipment that is still being put to prime use. I'm only sorry ... (more)

With a fine dusting of snow having fallen overnight, Union Pacific 7226 heads out of the P-Burg yard with this Eastbound loaded coal train.

3001 and 3010 give the four Tunnel Motors on the font of #708 a helping hand upgrade through Oak Creek in June 1981.