On a beautiful late spring evening in Chama Yard a timeless view of narrow gauge railroading illuminated by moonlight is a joy to behold.

Plowing snow at Big Horn. A Steam Specials charter.

A trio of K-36's are gathered outside the engine house in Chama as the sun prepares to disappear from the western sky. The locomotives gathered around the engine house tonight are the 484, 488, 48... (more)

Pipe loads for the gas fields. D&RGW K-36 #488 charges westbound out of Lava Loop, with loads of steel pipe that are destined for gas drilling operations in the Farmington, NM area, the bet... (more)

Lava at sunrise. The first rays of October sun break over the sagebrush as a westbound D&RGW Freight negotiates the east side of the Lava Loop and an imminent stop to water the locomotives.... (more)

Resting peacefully inside the Chama, NM engine house, Baldwin K-36 number 488 waits her next tour of duty.

Osier: Water for the horses. Baldwin K-36 #487 eases up to the old D&RG water tank at the depot in Osier Colorado. Once the home of a section crew, Osier was a convenient way-station for t... (more)

Photogenic Phantom. One of the two surviving Baldwin K-27 "Mudhens" rolls a consist of tanks and boxes westbound through Phantom Curve, just outside Osier, Colorado on a sunny, fall afterno... (more)

Phantom in the phall. The morning sun illuminates the Aspens as D&RGW Consolidation #315 leads a stock extra eastbound through Phantom Curve, en route to Antonito, CO.

Here comes the Silverton up from the canyon. A Durango & Silverton special passenger extra emerges from the Animas Canyon at the Timber Bridge just outside Silverton, Colorado, during Railf... (more)

Durango and Silverton 482 leads the first train of the 2014 Summer Season into Rockwood Colorado.

First train of 2014 runs out of the Animas River Canyon and into Bakers Park on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad past Cataract Falls (Look above the rear cars)

Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)

The snow flies and Engineer Max Casias watches intently as he makes another plunge into the deep snow drift, much as the DRGW might have cleared the line 60 years ago. It took five or six such pl... (more)