Georgetown Loop 40 steams up the steepest portion of the line between Georgetown and Silver Plume with a nine car train.

After the 4.5 mile journey from Devil's Gate Station via the Georgetown Loop to Silver Plume, locomotive 111 is allowed to refill its water supplies. Locomotive 111 was built by the Baldwin Locom... (more)

Mountain Descent. Slowly descending the 4% grades of the 4.5 mile route as it drops over 600 feet of elevation, the Georgetown Loop Railroad is seen en-route from Silver Plume to George... (more)

After arriving at Silver Plume, Colorado, a female brakeman turns the angle cock on the train’s first car so Georgetown Loop Railroad 2-8-0 No. 111 can cut off and head to the water tank to refi... (more)

Georgetown Loop 2-8-0 No. 111 steams past 2-6-2 No. 12 as it prepares to head down the hill to Georgetown. The first train of the day departs from the Devil's Gate station at 10:00 AM sharp for t... (more)

Georgetown Loop 12 at Silver Plume yard. This ex-Kahului Railway 2-6-2 recently spent time on the Midwest Central in Iowa before returning home to Colorado.

Georgetown Loop No. 111 pulls into Silver Plume with the last train of the day.

No. 111 is being service prior to the first run of the day. This chunky Consolidation worked for the International Railways of Central American before coming to Colorado in the 1970s.

It's the 3rd of October, 2004 and the final day of public running for the original operator of the Georgetown Loop. I rode the first train of the day out of Silver Plume, and then spent the rest o... (more)

It's a beautiful mid-summer morning as former Westside Lumber Company Shay #12 backs its train over the Devil's Gate high bridge headed for Devil's Gate station on the Georgetown Loop.

Former IRCA locomotive #40 backs its train down the Georgetown Loop's Devil's Gate High Bridge. It is the final day of operation for the original loop operator, and all three loop locomotives are... (more)

Here is former IRCA Consolidation #40 in Silverplume getting ready to couple onto its train for the trip downgrade to the Devil's Gate station. This was to be #40's last season on the Loop for man... (more)

Steam locomotives on the Georgetown Loop Railroad are lined up in front of the engine house at Silver Plume, Colorado, on September 13, 2004. Nos. 12 and 14 are 3-truck Shay locomotives from Wests... (more)

After helping to assemble the morning train in Silver Plume, the operator of GLRR 21 throws the switch to take the main track down the mountain to Georgetown. He will not only inspect the track b... (more)

Critter GLRR 21 (45 ton) slowly inspects the large trestle in Georgetown, Colorado, and the morning train from Silver Plume will soon follow. This trestle is key to enabling the Georgetown Loop R... (more)