Extra 473 North takes to the siding to meet southbound timetable train 464 amid the glowing aspens. We are traveling northbound to Silverton with a mixed train with a mid-train helper (K-28 476) f... (more)

Curving up and around the privately owned and man-made Shalona Lake just south of Rockwood is train 463 with K-28 473 and K-37 493 leading the final push up to their station stop.

Doubleheaded train 463 crosses over US 550 and begins its assault on Hermosa Hill, with both firemen getting in position to sand the flues of the locomotives for the first time of the day.

Train 463 to Silverton is 10 miles into their 45-mile journey to Silverton as they pass the decommissioned wooden DRGW water tank at Hermosa. It was general practice to space these tanks every 10 ... (more)

Riding in the cupola of the 0540 caboose as the first mixed train with a mid train helper to traverse the Silverton Branch since 1958 meet the sight of Pigeon and Turret Peaks on their way northbo... (more)

Peak autumn colors have hit the San Juans as Durango & Silverton #476 steams through Elk Park in Rio Grande lettering for the K-28s' 100th anniversary.

Just a few days after its 100th birthday, Durango & Silverton #473 heads for Silverton along the world famous Highline painted up in its original Rio Grande lettering.

All about depth perception... Flying a couple of hundred feet above track level we see the 15-car Durango bound 464 wrapping itself around Horseshoe Curve before exiting the High Line and making a... (more)

K-28s sisters 473 and 476 make their final push into Silverton, seen from high above the "Narrows" of the Animas River. Hopefully, I am the first and last person to obtain this angle... (more)

After the departure of train 462, light engine 473 gracefully weaves through the Narrows along the Animas River south of Silverton at the hand of engineer Russell.

While being serviced on the afternoon of August 30, 2021, after taking a train to Cascade and back, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s K-28 2-8-2 No. 473 rotates on the turntable at Dur... (more)

D&S train 261 traverses the High Line with John Hillier at the controls.

Durango & Silverton Class K-28 473 simmers away in the roundhouse, awaiting to be assigned to train 261 the next day.

Durango & Silverton 473 rolls downhill at Home Ranch as thunderheads form over the mountains.

Durango & Silverton 473 and 476 roll over the crossing just off the station platform at Durango, preparing to couple up to the days consist.