Two Ten-Wheelers, Rio Grande Southern 20 and Rio Grande Western 168, stand outside the C&TS shop in Antonito. Although they appear similar in size, there is almost twenty years of steam technolog... (more)

DRGW 493 heads south past the old Needleton Tank

High above DRGW's highline, DRGW 493 with a mixed freight heads south around the Horseshoe

DRGW 493 crosses the soon to be replaced Timber Bridge over the Animas

Rio Grande Alco PA-1 6013, here sunning itself at Denver Union Station on May 18, 1959. From my collection, Photo by Lou Schmitz.

On the first day of the Trains Magazine charter, DRGW 493 rounds the bend at Granite Point/Elbert Creek/Mini Highline with a mixed freight consist in tow

Crew shot to end the charter on the Highline's horseshoe curve

With rain starting to move in, DRGW 493 heads south over the "new" Twin Bridge

It's been 14 year since the SP, Rio Grande merger at the time of this photo. Seven since Union Pacific took over. Don't tell the boys in Helper, Utah the Rio Grande doesn't exist anymore. They gat... (more)

Constellation

Merriam-Webster has one of the definitions of 'Constellation' to be: an assemblage, collection, or group of usually related persons, qualities, or things.... (more)

Road To The Multiverse

Evoking an alternate reality, Durango and Silverton masquerades as her former self enroute into Silverton. As a Rio Grande locomotive, the 493 never mad... (more)

Soldier Summit can be a brutal place. D&RGW 5503 provides a helping hand to Amtrak #6, on New Years eve 1987. (Tom Ellis photo)

Rockwood!

Rounding Granite Point / Mini High Line / Elbert Creek, Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 493 rounds the shelf track here above Shalona Lake. This charter train dep... (more)

D&RG #168 and #425 lead the newly restored historic consist on an all day run to Chama. The train is seen crossing an un-named wash at the bottom of Gravity Hill.