Rio Grande Southern's Motor (AKA Galloping Goose) #5 heads past one leg of the wye at Bighorn, New Mexico. Next stop for passengers, the lunchroom at Osier for a fine lunch.

I Can See For Miles

Looking across the fingers of mesa top from Sublette New Mexico, we're looking towards Big Horn, a station on the former D&RGW San Juan Extension as Cumbres... (more)

Peak-A-Boo

With sunset nearing, Cumbres and Toltec 484 eases out of Rock Tunnel, a narrow puncture above the cleft of Toltec Gorge.

On a brilliant autumn afternoon, C&TS #484 backs its freight onto the wye at Bighorn. After turning, our Toltec Rattler Redux special will continue on westbound for the return trip to Chama.

More from the recent Toltec Rattler Redux charter on the C&TS... as we continued down out of the high country, we gradually moved out of snowy territory. As our freight approached Bighorn siding a... (more)

After a pause in the siding to allow the scheduled C&TRR morning Eastbound from Antonito to pass, D&RG T-12 #168 is again on the move at Sublette, NM 9-25-21. This was a photo charter to benefit ... (more)

Denver and Rio Grande T-12 #168, built by Baldwin in 1883, approaches the cut at MP 303.5 on a Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec photo charter, 9/25/21.

Denver & Rio Grande 168 makes a water stop at Sublette while pulling the 4th of July train.

Heading for Dallas Divide Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 and 2-8-2 455 recreate an RGS train of the early 1940s during TRAINS Magazine's "Sunset on the Rio Grande Southern" photo ch... (more)

Arriving at Matterhorn. A Rio Grande Southern freight extra has just arrived in the tiny hamlet of Matternhorn (MP 46.71), CO, and will pause here to perform some engine service before taki... (more)

Snaking through the rolling hills. As they run westbound through the S-curve near MP 303.4, about 2.5 rail miles east of Sublette, NM, our Rio Grande Southern freight extra, featuring RGS #... (more)

It's fall of 2009, and my son and I are in town for a Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec #315 special, but of course we HAVE to show up a day early so we can chase steam through the backcountry. He... (more)

Rio Grande Southern Motor #5 (aka the Galloping Goose) has made a quick stop at Bighorn Wye on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR and now continues on to Osier. Goose #5 is owned and operated by the... (more)

A unique piece of Colorado history, the "Galloping Goose", came into being due to the struggles of the Rio Grande Southern, a narrow gauge line which went from Ridgway, Colorado to Duran... (more)

Pillar of Smoke Rio Grande Southern Mikado #455 has a towering smoke plume as it leads a work extra past the "Matterhorn" bunk house. This train was a recreation of an RGS freigh... (more)