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)

The setting sun shines on the unmistakable nose graphics of the Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad tunnel motor #5401 (SD40T-2).

Denver & Rio Grande Western 487 works hard up the grade at Dalton with its freight train.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 487 nears the top of the 4% grade as it rounds a curve at Windy Point on a sunny August afternoon.

Denver & Rio Grande Western 484 crosses Cascade Trestle with its freight train on a sunny summer morning.