Westbound oil cans. Denver & Rio Grande K-27 #463 hauls a string of oil cans and other mixed freight bound for Chama via Cumbres Pass. The train is climbing a steady grade on the northern ... (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)

Shadows and highlights: Going vertical at Cascade Creek. The early morning sun casts the distinctive shadow of a K-27 Mudhen on the nearby hillside, as she rumbles slowly across the 137 ft.... (more)

Turn-of-the-Century Workhorses. Denver & Rio Grande Western Locomotives 463 and 315 prepare to depart eastbound from the Cumbres & Toltec Dining Hall at Osier Colorado with a pair of photo ... (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)

Close call at Toltec Siding. RP viewers who have met me know how much I dislike derailment photos. While I actually have a few of them, I typically don't post them, because they show the u... (more)