-- Don Phillips Foreshadows a Near-fatal Error by Union Pacific -- No one who was watching the western railroad mergers of the 1990s can esc...

Photo of the Day: BUFFIE Earlier this month, Union Pacific's Steam collective in Wyoming needed to stretch their Big Boy's legs be...

Well, that didn't take long. Proving that there is nothing new under the sun, the action announced on the 31st of December, 2020, Rio Gr...

The illustrious David P. Morgan, longtime editor of Trains Magazine wrote towards the end of his time in 1982 about what constitutes a Class...

Challenger 3985 charges south with the Circus Train toward Denver September 28, 2010 Photo: John H. Hill While fans of the Union Pa...

Jim Wrinn, editor of Trains Magazine , puts a bow on  the opening year of the UP Steam Big Boy era  in his blog post. Despite the pains ...

It's been quite a while since we've had a Photo of the Day, so it should be a good one! A new photographer has been making quite an ...

As a follow up to my previous post from April 26, it's worth noting that the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden is conducting a symposi...

In two weeks , dignitaries and pundits will call attention to a small bluff in western Utah named Promontory Summit where rail crews from t...

For Christmas, I received Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, sixth printing, first published in 1958. It is i...

John Hill captured Union Pacific legend No. 844 as it crested the slight grade at LaSalle, Colorado, on her speedy way from Cheyenne to Denv...

The 14 year-old Glenwood Railroad Museum  closed forever  as of  Monday, November 27th, 2017. Since 2003, the museum operated in the former ...

It almost goes without saying. This year's Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo had a steam special run by Union Pacific. I say almost because, ...

Caboose Hobbies, in whatever form the store survives, is set to re-open on Alameda Avenue in Lakewood just south of the Federal Center this...

Would you believe it's been 10 years since Colorado Railroads - www.corailroads.com - began? I wouldn't have realized it but for th...

Photo of the Day: Kevin Morgan Good morning! That's what you can say about today's Photo of the Day , Kevin Morgan's dawn ph...

For more than 140 years, the at-first narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and its standard gauge successors have maintained a loco...

Photo of the Day: Kevin the Krazy 1 A Union Pacific coal drag leaves Somerset towards Paonia, allowing a worker of a private orchard to ...

Today we get a second shot from March 25 by Chris Paulhamus. When the weather is perfect like this, would you turn a second shot down? Tak...

Perhaps no place better symbolizes the challenge faced by railroads heading west from Denver than Big Ten Curve located on the former Denv...