Five Rio Grande F7s lead by 5644, exits Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado and gets ready to drop down into Coal Creek Canyon in May 1965. Photo by J.B. Calvert, from my slide collection.

For awhile there I was living the life of Reilly, living in Rollinsville and traveling back and forth from work on the Rio Grande via Colo. Highway 72, passing beneath the railroad at the entrance... (more)

All three of Rio Grande’s EMD GP60s, D&RGW No. 3154, D&RGW No. 3155 and—dang it—Union Pacific just repainted and renumbered D&RGW No. 3156 into a yellow No. 5702, power UP’s Denver to Pueb... (more)

Rio Grande PA 6003 and F7 5531 leads Train No.1 the southbound ROYAL GORGE, as it begins its trip on the joint line at South Denver Junction in June 1965. Photo by Al Holtz, from my collectio... (more)

A heavy blanket of snow covers Denver Rio Grande Western 683, a 2-8-0 locomotive built in 1890 by Baldwin Locomotive Works and now displayed at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

Eastbound Union Pacific freight RODVM (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to Denver Manifest) heads downgrade out of Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on October 22, 1997. Rio Grande’s first ... (more)

A Rio Grande coal train snakes through the multiple curves leaving the east switch at Azure, Colorado, entering Gore Canyon along the Colorado River. A trio of EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors lead the e... (more)

Rio Grande train 187, off the Burlington Northern in Denver, has a couple of Cascade green machines in the consist on the morning of July 8, 1989, as the westbound freight climbs toward Tunnel 1 a... (more)

Two C&S SD9's 820 and 835 are sandwiched between four leased Rio Grande F-units as they change through Louisville, Colorado near Denver in November 1970. Occasionally the Colorado & Southern bor... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande coal train works through Parshall, Colorado, between the sidings of Flat and Sulphur on the grade toward the Moffat Tunnel on July 8, 1988. A pair of EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Mot... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5382 and EMD SD50 No. 5515 wait for a call to duty in front of the small enginehouse at Minturn, Colorado, at the foot of the famed grade over Tennessee Pass.

425 Taking Water at Chama Denver & Rio Grande 2-8-0 425 is recreating a classic scene from the past as it takes a drink from the water tower at Chama, New Mexico, during the Victorian Iron... (more)

The Final Stretch Denver & Rio Grande 168 speeds across the Colorado desert with a special overnight train from Chama, New Mexico. This was the first time overnight accommodations (in tou... (more)

Golden. Denver & Rio Grande Western F9A 5771 is seen basking in the sun at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO.

Once part of the operating fleet, ex-D&RGW K-37 No. 497 has not run in many years. During the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup it was pulled out of the Chama roundhouse for photos.