Well over this past weekend I went for a couple of walks and took some more photos documenting railway services in Colorado Springs. The first walk, that was actually for an event for class took me across the Colorado Avenue bridge, just south of the no longer in passenger use Colorado Springs Railroad Station, these photos were taken from that bridge (it crosses over the railroad tracks before continuing and crossing over I-25):
I then had to continue down to a small area of converted into unusual industries (we were there to visit a bike co-op), I stopped at a store called the Liberty Store, part store, part silkscreening operation, on the other side of the tracks, that’s in the no mans land between I-25 and the railroad tracks and station. Amazingly enough there’s no fence between the gravel parking lots of these low-commercial areas, that boarder the tracks and that are across from the station:
On sunday I was going for another walk also with my camera and was finally in the right place at the right time to photograph one of the numerous freight train that travel on the busy rail line along the front range. This was a fairly short train (maybe 40 cars) of raw materials, think box cars and tanker cars. It’s motive power was three BNSF Dash 9-44CW Locomotives #5358 was the leader, with helpers #4615, #4568:
That’s all folks, one of these days I’ll make a genuine section of the website for the photos of freight trains I’ve taken over the years (it currently just contains a small set of photos of the short-line Housatonic Railroad in Connecticut). They will definitely never be the primary focus of this website though.
2 replies on “More rail photos around Colorado Springs”
Hi, just wondering what time on Sunday you took the photos of the freight train in Colorado Springs. I’d like to try to get my kids down for a look some time. Thanks!
It was around 3 in the afternoon, they don’t run with any fixed schedule (I have a bit of a view of the fright line (and hear the whistles) from my bedroom window)-way to obstructed to get any photos) that I can figure out. The place I took those photos is in Monument Valley Park, just south of Uintah. There’s also a pond right their with ducks, that could provide some entertainment if you decide to go and wait for a train. There something like 30ish freight trains a day so if your willing to wait a bit (I can’t remember if there’s also a small playground near the duckpond). it could definitely be an outing.