Shadows and highlights: Going vertical at Cascade Creek. The early morning sun casts the distinctive shadow of a K-27 Mudhen on the nearby hillside, as she rumbles slowly across the 137 ft.... (more)

Osier after dark. Free of the light pollution from modern civilization, the heavens above put on a spellbinding display over the old D&RGW water tank in Osier, Colorado. Backlighting by God... (more)

Steamscape: Lava Loop. The late afternoon sun is beginning to cast long shadows as Stock Extra 315 rounds the Lava Loop, passing the old D&RGW Water Tank. Located just about 10 miles sout... (more)

Chama after dark. The crew of a D&RGW Locomotive prepare their engine for a late evening departure as the Chama Station baggage handlers load the mail and other cargo aboard a Baggage Expre... (more)

Two spouts, no waiting. The early morning sun filters through the grove of trees on the east side of the Chama Yard as multiple steam locomotives are readied for duty on Cumbres turns. In ... (more)

Bed-time for the Mudhen. After a day-long freight drag from Chama via Cumbres Pass, a trusty K-27 Mudhen is now in the hands of the shop crew at Antonito, Colorado. As the Engineer and Fir... (more)

Westbound Stockers. Roughly 8 miles out of Antonito, westbound stock train 315 has begun the slow, steady ascent to Cumbres Pass. The climb to the pass from the east is very unlike the run... (more)

Turn-of-the-Century Workhorses. Denver & Rio Grande Western Locomotives 463 and 315 prepare to depart eastbound from the Cumbres & Toltec Dining Hall at Osier Colorado with a pair of photo ... (more)

You want smoke? The crew of D&RGW Locomotive 315 does their best to re-enact the burning of Rome as they charge westbound toward a water stop at Osier, CO with a heavy freight. You can't t... (more)

And the chase is on..... Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive 315 drifts downhill with her stock extra as she keeps station, a couple of hundred yards behind our Freight Extra 463. As the two p... (more)

Eastbound at Big Horn. A D&RGW Mudhen drags her mixed freight consist around the sweeping curve just west of the Big Horn Wye, near MP 299. Although westbound freights of any significant ... (more)

Steamscape: Milepost 285. A Denver & Rio Grande Western Freight highballs westbound out of Antonito, Colorado, bound for Cumbres Pass with a mixed consist of stockers, tanks, boxcars and go... (more)

Steamscape: Rock Tunnel. Denver & Rio Grande Western Consolidation #315 pokes her little nose out of the west portal of Rock Tunnel, as she hauls a stock extra on the slow trek to Osier, Co... (more)

Steamscape: Cascade Creek. The Denver & Rio Grande Western's Locomotive 463 takes mixed freight east over the 408 ft long trestle crossing Cascade Creek, just a mile and half from the water... (more)

Close call at Toltec Siding. RP viewers who have met me know how much I dislike derailment photos. While I actually have a few of them, I typically don't post them, because they show the u... (more)