Rio Grand Scenic 18 departs Fort Garland with all the sound and fury of a 4-8-4.

SLRG 18 slips its wheels on a photo run-bye on the steep 3% grade of La Veta Pass.

Northbound Antonito-Alamosa Rio Grande Scenic passenger train behind SLRG #18 passes a retired Rio Grande boxcar near La Jara, CO. The landscape in this part of southern Colorado is dotted with ma... (more)

Northbound Antonito-Alamosa passenger train lead by SLRG #18 rolling through the rural southern Colorado landscape on a beautiful summer evening. The train has been to Antonito to make a connectio... (more)

Engineer Earl Knoob looks ahead from the cab of San Luis & Rio Grande #18 as we climb the east side of La Veta Pass at 13mph on the trip back to Alamosa. The throttle is wide open and we are along... (more)

San Luis & Rio Grande #18 leads the Alamosa - La Veta train off the east side of La Veta Pass after making a stop at the top of the pass (Fir) to deposit concert attendees at a Michael Martin Murp... (more)

San Luis & Rio Grande #18 (Rio Grande Scenic) leads its beautiful IC-inspired train through a slight curve just north of La Jara, Colorado on its 30 mile run down from Alamosa to Antonito where it... (more)

SLRG 18 passes the line of photographers at MP 213.8

As our bus pulled up, I was very excited to see that Ed Ellis and the fine folks at the SLRG had decided to hold off on the FP10 until Fort Garland, and let our RPCA Special get pulled by the form... (more)

SLRG number 18 had to work quite hard to tackle the last curve before entering the Fir station with its freight train.

SLRG #18 on a Photo Special pulls the 3% westbound. From a photo line...there will probably be plenty of pictures from this spot...

SLRG No 18 breaks out of the east portal of upper tunnel headed towards Fir (La Veta Pass) with the photographers special.

SLRG No 18 pounding towards Fir (La Veta Pass) with the photographers special.