At last an operating K27! Just a little extra freight with a headlight left over from a movie production. They are WB just east of Tanglefoot Curve. I really like those mudhens.

At last an operating K27! Just a little extra freight with a headlight left over from a movie production. They are WB just east of Tanglefoot Curve. I really like those mudhens.

Done up as D&RGW and adorned with a fake oil headlight left over from a movie production, this extra is picking up a gon in the siding as cold mists cloak the peaks and the light fades in the magn... (more)

Extra 463 climbs the mesa in between southern Colorado and northern New Mexico with Stock Extra 315 following in the distance.

K36 487 and K27 463 double head up to Cumbres.

Baldwin 489 sits in the yard while 487 backs up and to couple up for a double head end up to Cumbres Pass at 10,015. The two engines coupled so smoothly there is no motion in the couplers as they ... (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)

Extra 315 takes a stock train to Alamosa while following the Rio de Los Pinos in the valley of the same name.

Smoke and steam are things that typically add a lot of drama to steam engine photography. But it is a two edged sword. In this view I got a bit more smoke than I had bargained for. C'est la vie... (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)

Extra 315 doubleheads into Chama with a freight from Durango on a fall morning.

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)