On a beautiful fall morning, D&RGW #487 crosses the 175' trestle over the Rio de los Pinos at mile marker 324.5 with a stock train headed for Osier. We'll load cattle there.

From a 2... (more)

Early morning light streams into the Nevada Northern engine house, where the NN's Steam Rotary Snow Plow "B" waits for its next callout. Built by Alco-Cooke in 1907, the plow has been c... (more)

It's late afternoon in the East Ely yard and activity is picking up, as NN #40 brings in a mixed train from Cobre, while Alcos RS-3 #109 and RS-2 #105 get ready to depart with a string of empty or... (more)

The sun is just about to drop below the mountains west of Ely, as NCCCo #93 steams past the RIP building headed for the engine house. Due to a recently developed bearing issue #93 was confined to... (more)

NCCCo #93 brings a string of empty ore cars into the East Ely yard. In the two decades I've visited the NN, #93 has been lettered for three different entities - "Nevada Northern", "... (more)

We had great snow for the 2005 Durango & Silverton Winter Photographer's special. Almost too much in places. Fortunately the D&S crews have done a great job packing snow down at runby locations ... (more)

Cumbres Silhouette

At the end of a long day of shooting on a Lerro Productions two day event on the C&TS, we set up for a star shot. With 2-8-2 #489 (today lettered for the ... (more)

Our Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec special left Antonito very late so by the time we reached Rock Tunnel, it was almost sunset. On this fall day, the setting sun gave the rocks a golden glow whi... (more)

It's midday and after loading cattle at the Osier stock pens, our train is headed timetable west towards Cumbres Pass, here shown crossing the spectacular trestle at Cascade Creek. From a Lerro P... (more)

It's autumn in the Rocky Mountains, and the annual fall stock rush is in full swing on the D&RGW. Of course, these days the "stock" consists of tourists coming to look at fall colors in the high ... (more)

There's been a wreck on the Nevada Northern up at the mine in Ruth and NN steam Wrecking Crane A, its tender and assorted other cars have been called out to set things right. A beautiful simulati... (more)

On a gloomy winter morning in the Steptoe Valley, Nevada Northern's 4-6-0 #40 is on the main line from Cobre approaching Hi Line Junction with a mixed train headed to Ely. The Hi Line tracks whic... (more)

Nevada Northern's beautiful Baldwin 4-6-0 poses at Ruby St. crossing with the NN's recently built Hy-Rail. The Hy-Rail was built from a restored 1956 Pontiac Chieftan and replicates the original ... (more)

Nevada Northern's venerable workhorse Consolidation #93 - here lettered for Kennecott Copper Company - is shrouded in steam as it pulls out of the engine house and prepares for the day's work. Ne... (more)

As the sun sets, Nevada Northern Alco RS-3 #109 and Alco RS-2 #105 lead a string of empty ore cars out of the East Ely yard headed for the mine at Ruth. 2020 Nevada Northern winter photo spectacu... (more)