Last hurrah for the Rio Grande, and it's tunnel motors. I was fortunately enough to get a last chance, of catch four Rio Grande tunnel motors working together on the dirt train in 2002.

D&RGW 3008, SP 7856, and DRGW 3015, return from Kennecott with the Midvale Tramp.

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5390 leads the eastbound Union Pacific LJP45 dirt train through the short canyon between Wash and Wellington (sometimes referred to as Wellington Canyon), U... (more)

D&RGW train number 1, the Scenic Limited, is seen at Ogden Utah on July 30th 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

It's 2003 but you would never know it. The employees in Helper, Utah keep the Rio Grande alive as long as they could. D&RGW 5349, 5354, and 5390. near the end of the Sunnyside Branch with a loaded... (more)

Rio Grande narrow gauge caboose No. 0579 sits in the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s shop building in Antonito, Colorado, on June 6, 2018. In the foreground is a passenger truc... (more)

WALSENBURG CO July 4 1978 – D&RGW GP40 3085 and four other B-truck locos smoke their way out of town with a mixed freight in tow. According to www.drgw.net 3085 was, "Retired by UP 25-May-2... (more)

HELPER UT March 9 1980 — Rio Grande SD9 5309 ais shjown in switching service. This shot taken from the Rio Grande Zephyr. My photo.

A Southern Pacific freight approaches its Chicago destination at LaVergne in Berwyn, Illinois, on Burlington Northern’s busy Aurora to Chicago triple-track main line on May 28, 1992. A trio of R... (more)

Photographer unknown, from my collection.

The F9 A/B set at CRRM

That Iconic Face

Hated by a few, but loved by many, the iconic 1970's dress of the Denver and Rio Grande Western's K-28 fleet of the Silverton Branch is on display here in 2023... (more)

CRRM's newly restored DRGW GP30 rests in Golden. Taken with permission.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Rio Grade EMD GP9 5942 leads SD9 5305 as they work East Yard In Grand Junction Co in February 1990