Little train. Big rock. The volcanic spires and pedestal rocks towering over the train are what gave Phantom Curve its name when early engineers that ran trains at night said the shadows cast by ... (more)

Mudhen 463 emerges from aptly named Rock Tunnel into the heart of the Toltec Gorge on a clear autumn evening.

The train is dwarfed by the mountain top of Windy Point, as it fights the home stretch to the top.

C 18 class D&RGW 315 pulls a train through the high desert on a summer morning.

A fence is all that separates these young girls, here for a birthday party, from the object of their attention, a CSX freight.

Looking through a window of the past at a train of the present. A southbound NS train goes by AC Tower, ready to take over control of the diamonds if necessary.

Working hard through the crossing at Coxo is the train with a caboose added for a charter.

Beneath threatening skies, the passenger train cruises past the coaling tower nearly to the station.

Extra 315 doubleheads into Chama with a freight from Durango on a fall morning.

A unit ethanol train tips over the slide, with two helpers on the back helping hold it back.

Extra 315's lead engine has just taken water at the double spouted tank in Chama, while 488 approaches on the engine house lead to take on water itself before hooking up to its passenger train.

On a 4% grade, the train roars to a stop for water at Cresco Tank. When they started back up after taking on water, they rolled back several feet before moving due to the grade.

Extra 463 crosses Cascade Trestle on a cool, clear morning in the mountains with a mixed freight headed east.

The engine no one wanted sits alone with some cars.

Three SD80MAC's are struggling hauling coal up the west slope as they approach the Route 53 bridge elephant style.