Doubleheading past Jukes' Tree. The 4th doubleheader of the 2011 Cumbres & Toltec excursion season charges off the Rio Chama Bridge and past a large, odd-looking pine tree that has acquired... (more)

DRG&W #485 under starry, starry skies. Lighting by God, flash, by Lerro Productions. DRG&W #489 as #485, if just for 48 hours.

DRG&W #487 over the 1889 built Cascade Trestle during a Lerro Productions photo charter.

DRG&W #487 at Windy Point.

Here's an old pan I took back before I was even born, featuring DRG&W #485, scrapped in 1955. This photo is not possible to take today (but it was last week after #489 dressed as #485 for a day, ... (more)

DRG&W #487 with it's freight sits in the siding giving priority to DRG&W #485 with a passenger train bound for Chama. Just another day on the DRG&W, as it has been for over a 100 years.

DRG&W #487 arrives at the Cresco water tank deep in the woods looking to top off before terminating the run in Chama.

1951 or 2011?

While in Cumbres one September I made sure to document this scene. DRG&W #485 has long been scrapped after falling into a turntable pit and only the entrance of the full snow shed (as seen) now s... (more)

One of my early color images (from the two day Lerro Photo charter featuring #489 as #485).

DRG&W #489 subs as infamous DRG&W #485, back from the scrap yards after falling into the turntable pit in Salida in 1953. The engine returned to 2011, alas only for 24 hours.

Fond memories chasing the DRG&W with steam photographer John West and friends. Hard to believe it was only last week. bw

A ranch hand shoots the breeze with the engineer of DRG&W #487 while a hostler prepares the stock cars for loading at the stockyards in Osier, NM. Part of a Lerro Productions charter. Click more)

Vista at Tanglefoot. In an effort to maintain a practical grade though the steep grades of both CO and NM, the Rio Grande engineered several horseshoe grades in it's lines easing the climb. In t... (more)

Steep grades are the norm on the Denver, Rio Grande and Western narrow gauge line seen here attacking the grade at Tanglefoot Curve. DRG&W #485 has the honors today thanks to a Lerro Productions ... (more)