Denver & Rio Grande Western 488 leads its freight train across Ferguson's Trestle at sunrise on a gorgeous August morning.

Gavilon Grain in Saginaw, Texas is home to a Denver & Rio Grande Western SW1200, still wearing its full DRGW paint and original number. #134, built in January of 1965, prepares to shove a cut of g... (more)

DRGW 134 and TLSX 8740 rest in between assignments at Gavilon Grain in Saginaw. DRGW 134 was built as is in January of 1965. 8740 was built as IC GP9 9244 in January of 1957, before being rebuilt ... (more)

The last two unpatched D&RGW tunnel motors (DRGW 5390 and 5371, sandwiched between a pair of UP SD40-2s) throttle up as they roll into Wellington, Utah, with the "Dirt Train" in February... (more)

One of only times I got to shoot a Rio Grande SD45. From the time I started take pictures, to the time the Rio Grande went away. The SD45's were stored or made there way to the scrap yards. Here D... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's DRGW 5771 (F9A) looks great in a new coat of paint. This well-photographed engine used to lead the Rio Grande Zephyr train between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake Ci... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western 488 works hard at Dalton on a sunny summer morning.

CN crew has detached CN unit for night shot. CN ferries Rio Grande ski train east to Algoma Central at Dubuque from Council Bluffs. Train waits for crew at Dubuque

Denver & Rio Grande Western 488, 484, and 487 rest at the Chama Depot on a cool summer evening.

A snowy DRGW 3011 (GP30) joins CBQ 5629, a 4-8-4 steam locomotive that built in 1940 and used to run fast freights between Denver and Alliance, Nebraska.

Snow has fallen on the Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad #683 (2-8-0), which is the last surviving standard gauge Rio Grande steam engine.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 487 leads its freight train upgrade at Dalton on a cool summer morning.

A Rio Grande SD45 along with a pair of MoPac units is blue flagged for servicing at the former C&EI Yard Center in Dolton. Tom Golden photo.

A pair of Denver & Rio Grande Western engines, with 90 years separation in year of manufacture, sit in the yard of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. D&RGW 683 (2-8-0) was built in ... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)