Climbing through the Valley of the Los Pinos. D&RG Locomotives #168 and 425 haul their San Juan Passenger Extra across the wooden trestle at Los Pinos Creek (MP 324.52) as they make the lon... (more)

Leaving Big Horn westbound. After taking on water from a pre-positioned tank car on the siding at Big Horn Peak, our D&RG doubleheader featuring Locomotives 168 and 425 resume their trek we... (more)

D&RG Doubleheader. Just outside the yard in Antonito, Colorado at MP 281, we see D&RG Locomotives #168 and 425 doubleheading westbound with an all-D&RG wooden passenger consist on the 4th d... (more)

Rounding the curve at Big Horn. Charging eastward under a threatening sky, D&RG Locomotive #168 rounds the big curve below Big Horn Peak, near Milepost 299.6, with her passenger extra in to... (more)

Top of the Whiplash. D&RG T-12 Locomotive #168 is pulling hard as she works westbound at the top of the serpentine grade known as "The Whiplash", near Milepost 296.8, not far from... (more)

Headed west.... The morning sun has ducked into a mid-level cloud deck as D&RG T-12 Locomotive #168 takes her San Juan Express consist west over Ferguson's Trestle a Milepost 285.87, headin... (more)

Echoes of an earlier age. Denver & Rio Grande Consolidation #425 hauls an eastbound mixed consist out of the rock cut at MP 317.3, just east of Osier, CO on a pretty fall day in 2021, on a ... (more)

Tip-toeing over Cascade Creek. With the aspens popping all over the hills surrounding the Los Pinos Valley, D&RG Locomotive #425 slowly rumbles across the high bridge over Cascade Creek at ... (more)

Steamscape: The Los Pinos Valley. High above the Los Pinos Creek, just west of Osier, CO, D&RGW Locomotive #425 takes a mixed train east through a deep rock cut at about MP 317.3. This vie... (more)

Drifting into Colorado. With massive building cumulus clouds as a backdrop, D&RG Locomotive #425 drifts downgrade at MP 287.4, as she slowly descends off the lava-capped mesa a little over... (more)

Sagebrush silhouette. Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive #425 and mixed train are silhouetted against the early morning sunlight as she charges across the lava-capped mesas of the New Mexico de... (more)

Steamscape: Lava Tank. The early morning sun back-lights the Northern New Mexico desertscape, as D&RG Locomotive #425 charges west with her mixed train, bound for Big Horn, Sublette, Osier ... (more)

On the loop at Lava. Moments after dawn, a Denver & Rio Grande mixed train rounds the loop at Lava Tank, near MP 291.4, on its westbound run toward Chama, NM, via Cumbres Pass. The power t... (more)

High Desert Wanderer. Just after sunrise, D&RG Consolidation #425 leads a mixed train west out of Antonito, CO, headed for Chama, NM and later, Durango, Colorado, pictured here passing MP 2... (more)

Steamscape: Whitehead Gulch. One of the most challenging, yet spectacular photo locations on the old D&RGW Silverton Line is this little spot at MP 491.95, about 5 miles south of Silverton.... (more)