I always wanted to photograph one of these F40M-2s as soon as I saw photos of one as they were delivered to the Canadian American Railroad, an Iron Roads shortline whose hard luck story was just a... (more)

The SLRG seemed to have everything going for it at this time. Iowa Pacific was a rapidly growing company, delighting railfans with passenger service using a variety of vintage equipment. Freight ... (more)

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Three-foot gauge tank car UTLX No. 55172 is displayed at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden on August 23, 2021. In 1939, 25 frameless standard gauge tank cars of 60,000-pound ... (more)

SLC 71 sits idle at the Yard Office in Monte Vista

The great expanse of the San Luis Valley surrounds a tiny Rio Grande local freight headed from Alamosa to Antonito at Estrella, Colorado, on the morning of May 24, 1991. Even though it doesn’t l... (more)

Surviving in 2020. Home Built D-500 and Plymouth ML-8 rest in the high dry sun of the San Luis Valley. D-500 a Frankenstein chain driven locomotive built of various railroad, truck and tractor p... (more)

La Veta Pass This light power is heading east up the 2.5% loop at Carr for the siding at Fir (upper left). The power will retrieve "hot" cars set-out earlier in the week for Coor... (more)

Morning Tunder Storms are already building over the Southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Afternoon Storms will bring heavy rain to the refion. The sun is still shine however as the wes... (more)

La Veta Pass A westbound train of 18 empty hoppers heads up the 3% grade above Occidental. The DRGW rated any given locomotive for less tonnage here than on Tennessee Pass. The Spring Cree... (more)

A westbound train runs west at 10mph into the setting sun on a stormy evening in the high flat San Luis Valley. The Valley is full of odd happenings and lore. It is the nations cattle mutilation c... (more)

La Veta Pass One of three Hill turns on this day grinds up the last of the 2.5% grade on top of the great loop at Fir. The small train is heavy with agricultural products for Coors Brewing... (more)

La Veta Pass meaning Mineral Vein Pass lies at 9242 feet at the the top of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. This eastbound train is climbing the 2.5% grade approaching the famous "loop&... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40 No. 3135 switches at the San Luis Central interchange at Sugar Junction just outside Monte Vista, Colorado, on August 6, 1993, while SLC SW8 No. 70 sits on the west leg of the ... (more)

A Rio Grande local departs Monte Vista, Colorado, with five boxcars and a caboose bound for Alamosa on August 6, 1993. EMD GP40 No. 3135 is a former Penn Central/Conrail locomotive purchased by Ri... (more)

Rio Grande GP9 5953 westbound local at Alamosa, Colorado. Unknown photo from my collection.