While on a short vacation trip to see the Rocky Mountains, my wife and I passed through LaJunta, Colorado on US route 50. As we drove past the town rail depot, I noticed an Amtrak train waiting there. This train caught my attention since its character was very different from the Amtrak trains that I see pass through Rochester, NY. Those trains look similar to the one in the picture at the left. Since at that time, late September 2002, Amtrak's future was in question, I decided to play rail fan for a few minutes. I grabbed my digital and 35mm cameras and took a few shots with the following results.

The lead locomotive sports a famous locomotive number. I wonder if its position in the consist was planned that way or was merely a coincidence.
Upon examination of the manufacturers data plate, I noticed that the locomotives were built by General Electric.

The double deck sleeper cars have a box like appearance next to the stream lined locomotives.

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Also at LaJunta, Co., I spotted this pair of Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotives. I thought that they made a colorful combination. The orange locomotive looked as if it had just rolled out of the paint shop with its new paint scheme and logo.

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Canadian Pacific's Christmas train on display at Walkley Yard, Ottawa, Ontario, December 2000.

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The pictures in this frame are views from Cincinnati's Union Terminal yard Tower A as it is now.  It is a large, busy intermodal yard.  Four railroad companies use this facility.  They are Amtrak, CSX Transportation, Central of Indiana  and Norfolk and Southern.

From this vantage point one can see the yard operations north to the Over the Rhine viaduct and south to the bridge over the Ohio River into Northern Kentucky.  The Cincinnati Railroad Club has made a web page with photographs that detail the various features of this facility.  Click the TOWER A VIEW button in the links bar that runs across the top of their home page.  One feature I would like to point out is if you click the Southwest view photo, there is a large silver structure near the top center of this photo. That is the railroad bridge that crosses the Ohio river into Northern Kentucky. This is a neat web site with a lot of interesting information that can be obtained by clicking the links on their Home page.

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