It's hard to believe this was my first day using a DSLR with interchangeable lenses, Canon XT (350D) and even harder to believe that it was over 6 years ago. New Hope & Ivyland dressed up #40 into... (more)

A railroad employee gives Extra 765 an all-clear at Carland just after sunset on a Saturday evening. A Lerro Productions photo charter.

Steamscape - Los Pinos Valley. A Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36 hauls a string of stock cars and mixed freight up the Los Pinos Valley, on the westbound run to Cumbres Pass. The train i... (more)

Reefsteamers Class 25NC, with a steam plume as long as her train approaches Sheridan siding with a train bound for Ficksburg. Just the way it was in steam days.

Fauresmith is the only town in South Africa where the railway runs down the middle of the main street. Regular steam had ended some years before this picture was taken, but the cars, coincidental... (more)

Friends of the Rails 1947-built berkshire departs from Cullinan on a cold, clear winter morning.

One of the early batch of the standard mixed traffic main line steam locomotives of the South African Railways departs from Koornburg with a mixed train bound for Malmesbury.

The Rio Grande never sleeps. The D&RGW Chama night hostlers position a K-36 helper locomotive for a drink at the yard's dual-spouted water tank, in preparation for a heavy sunrise freight t... (more)

Cumbres after dark. After watering their locomotive, the crew of a late-night, Rio Grande freight hold at Cumbres Station, awaiting their orders to proceed down the 4% grade to their final ... (more)

Round 'em up! They're not happy, but their ride to market has arrived and it's time to load up. A cow-poke cracks the whip to get his herd together prior to entering the loading chutes at ... (more)

Loading livestock at Osier. The crew of a D&RGW stock train carefully aligns the doors of one of its cars with the loading chute at the stock pens in Osier, Colorado. A local rancher, sen... (more)

Steamscape - Hamilton's Point. A Cumbres Turn hammers up the 4% grade at Hamilton's Point on a chilly morning in September. This location is believed to have been named for L.C.Hamilton, a... (more)

Time-travelers meet at Los Pinos. A Lerro Productions Photo Freight sits in the hole at Los Pinos Siding to allow the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad's regular, daily westbound run out of ... (more)

Cumbres Pass - Elevation 10,015 MSL. A Chama-bound freight eases up to the water plug in front of the depot at the storied Cumbres Pass Station. Once a very busy waystation on the D&RG Nar... (more)

Steamscape - Tanglefoot Curve. A westbound D&RGW freight ascends the last 100 vertical feet to the 10,000 ft. high Cumbres Pass over a curvaceous, mile and a half stretch of track, known as... (more)