Osier Arrival. With one of her Brakemen riding the catwalk, a D&RGW freight arrives at the remote station in Osier, Colorado. Prominent in the consist today is a string of distinctive, bl... (more)

Topping Cumbres Pass. Coming out of the shadows of Tanglefoot Curve, a D&RGW Freight enters the evening sunlight at the 10,020 foot-level....the summit of Cumbres Pass. Shortly, she'll cro... (more)

Evening departure at Cumbres Pass. The last rays of sun poke through the clouds as a Denver & Rio Grande Western Freight eases out of Cumbres Station on the westbound run to Chama, and late... (more)

In the snowshed at Cumbres Pass. Denver & Rio Grande Western #485 sits with her freight on a snowshed-covered leg of the Cumbres Pass Wye waiting for traffic to pass. For pretty obvious r... (more)

Steamscape - Tanglefoot Curve. Denver & Rio Grande Western #485 works upgrade westbound on Tanglefoot Curve with an afternoon freight bound for Cumbres Pass and Chama. For the first day o... (more)

Steamscape: Cascade Trestle. A Denver & Rio Grande Western freight charges across Cascade Trestle on a sunny September afternoon hauling cattle and freight westbound toward Cumbres Pass. T... (more)

Greetings from Color-ado! The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's annual Fall Photo Special drifts southbound across the concrete and steel trestle at Elk Park on a gorgeous fall mo... (more)

Steamscape: Lobato Trestle. The crew of DRGW 488 opens both firebox blow-down valves as they take their Chama-bound passenger train across the legendary Lobato Trestle on a warm August afte... (more)

Eureka on the shelf. With former D&S Engineer Monty Caudle on the throttle, Eureka & Palisade #4 hauls her passenger extra across the rock shelf above Elbert Creek toward nearby Rockwood St... (more)

Time to go to work. For most of the 11-mile journey from Durango to Hermosa, the Firemen on the Silverton Trains can take it easy. Running on nearly flat country, the big K-36s are loafing... (more)

Northbound Goose. Rio Grande Southern Motor Number 5, one of the famous Galloping Geese, cruises through the Rockwood Cut on a northbound run toward Cascade Canyon during Railfest 2011. G... (more)

Lobbin' wood. With their locomotive in the hole on the Elk Park Wye, the crew of Eureka & Palisade #4 forms the traditional wood line to take on fuel. Although she is just a 22-tonner, the... (more)

Crossing the Rio Animas. Eureka & Palisade #4 leaves the dusty mining town of Silverton, Colorado behind her as she crosses the Animas River to begin her southbound journey to Durango. Th... (more)

Goooood Morning Durango!. DSNG Locomotive 482, with Engineer Mike Nichols on the throttle, leads the 8:30 AM Silverton Train across the Animas River in Downtown Durango on a sunny August mo... (more)

The Omen. Day 2 of the Durango & Silverton's annual Railfest dawned mostly cloudy and the weather just went downhill from there. When Eureka & Palisade #4 arrived in Silverton around 5 PM,... (more)