Derailed Union Pacific Grain (corn) train, Bosler Wyoming. August 22, 2020.

 

Transportation juxtaposition

BNSF rail tunnels on left, Wyoming Highway Department tunnels on the right.

Wind River Canyon, Wyoming.

Perfect Timing. The Union Pacific in Torrington (again).

The Denver City Cable Rail Way Buidling, Denver Colorado.

This is a birdseye view of the Denver City Cable Rail Way Building in downtown Denver Colorado.  The 1889 vintage building now houses a restaurant and businesses.  This particular building originally housed the power generation system for the cable railway and a maintenance facility.

Rio Grande Depot, Salt Lake City Utah.

This very classic city train station in Salt Lake City was built in 1910. A beautiful structure, it now houses Utah's state historical offices, the Utah History Center and the Rio Grande Cafe.

The station is probably also emblematic, in some ways, of the decline in passenger rail service.  Only a few blocks off of downtown, the neighborhood can be a rough one at certain times of the day and the presence of police cars in these photographs isn't accidental, a there is a City of Salt Lake police station very near by.  Early in the morning large crowds of the homeless gather as a Catholic relief mission just across the street.

Competing Modes of Transporation. Trains and Planes.

Burlington Northern Train carrying aircraft fuselages in Casper, Wyoming.

Denver International Airport Subway

Looking at the BN from the old Great Northwestern

Photographs taken from the bed of the old Great Nortwestern line, rails now removed, of the Burlington Northern line that runs nearby.

Rolling Art . . .Burlington Northern, Casper Wyoming