MP 483 - Needle Creek Canyon. At around MP 483, our Silverton Mixed passes the confluence of Needle Creek and the Animas River. This location is a nice, open meadow and a great location to ... (more)

Icicles, Blue Hour, and Snow

Snow flakes glisten in the headlight beam of #491 while taking water at the tank. Nearly a foot of snow fell on this day, just right for some shots... (more)

Running the Rio de las Animas Perdidas. From Rockwood, Colorado on north, the old Denver & Rio Grande Western Silverton Line follows the Rio de las Animas Perdidas, or River of Lost Souls. ... (more)

Passing through quintessential desert scenery beneath the Book Cliffs, Union Pacific LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches the junction to the Green River Subdivision main line at Mounds, Utah, ... (more)

Fall color at Cement Wall. Deep in the Animas River Canyon, a Silverton Mixed Train behind D&RGW #473 charges north with some loads for the residents and businesses in Silverton, passing th... (more)

A room with a view. DRGW 473 takes a Silverton Mixed Train around the High Line Horseshoe Curve at MP 469.5 in a scene shot from the cliffs high above the track level. Reaching this locat... (more)

Stepping out on the High Line. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #473 leads an early morning Silverton Mixed out onto the famous High Line in Rockwood, Colorado (MP 469.6), not long after al... (more)

Water from the Tank

Like gold glowing in the brilliant Fall morning light; water on the deck flows from the tank. Chama, NM

Mountain Railroading

In unison, triple header #487, #488, and #489 struggle up the grade near Dalton displaying the drama of mountain steam narrow gauge railroading as only the... (more)

D&RGW K36 #489 rounds Tanglefoot Curve on the return to Chama. This from day two of the 2016 Fall Photo Freight, organized by the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec.

D&RGW K36 #489 approaches Tanglefoot Curve on the return to Chama. This from day two of the 2016 Fall Photo Freight, organized by the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec.

After a hardy lunch at Osier, our train is returning to Chama, NM behind D&RGW K36 #489. We made two run-bys over Cascade Trestle. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organiz... (more)

D&RGW K36 #489 pulls into Osier, CO 10/5/16. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organized by the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec.

D&RGW K36 #489 leads the 2016 Fall Photo Freight through the Los Pinos Valley enroute to Osier seen here at Los Pinos, CO 10/5/16. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organize... (more)

D&RGW K36 #489 leads the 2016 Fall Photo Freight across the Rio de Los Pinos Los Pinos, CO 10/5/16. This is the second of a two day 2016 Fall Photo Freight organized by the Friends of the Cumbres... (more)