Now it's 400 Feet Straight Down* Easing around the famed Horseshoe Curve on the Denver and Rio Grande Western's Silverton Branch we catch K37 493 rounding out the bend from Roc... (more)
A Result of a night photo session with Darel Crawford, he "painted" the locomtoive and depot using high powered flashlights. SouthWestRails.com
The Sentinels of the Prairies A sunrise look at the famed 'last semaphore' at MP 706. Now gone, these two signals were the easternmost blades on the Raton Subdivision for year... (more)
Red Rocks Completely disconnected from the thought that there would be a train on this day, I found the Potash Local making its journey to its namesake completely on accident t... (more)
“Proud as a Peacock, and struttin’ Her Stuff” Locomotive No. 493 of the Durango and Silverton Railroad makes her return to active service after fifty-two years this weeke... (more)
D&SNG 486 Pulls the Second Silverton Train into Bakers Park (Silverton) over the fifth and final crossing of the Animas River
C&TS GM Soni Honneger and Conductor Allan Loomis attemt to get Caboose 05635 back on the rails after a somewhat bumpy derailment
Class Portrait Lined up in the Williams Coach Yard, we find a working example of every class of locomotive power on today's Grand Canyon Railway (with the exception of its ex-A... (more)
Chico and The Comet Comet NEOWISE streaks behind one of the ubiquitous Santa Fe Semaphores in New Mexico..
Who's Model Railroad is this Anyways? Cumbres and Toltec 487, a Mikado built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western, coasts by Cresco Colorado's water tank on its decent of from... (more)
From a unusual vantage point in the Durango Yard, the 481 is being preped on the ready track. SouthWestRails.Com
I Took the Path Less Taken I mean, there’s literally no trail, and it’s not easy to get here.
“A Tale of Fire and Ice” High above the nearly frozen Rio De Las Animas Perdidas, Locomotive No. 493 of the Durango and Silverton Railroad makes her return to active servic... (more)
And You’re Gonna Get a Shiver, When You Check Out The River... With a one-two punch of the COVID Pandemic and The Elk Creek Bridge being washed out, action shots of The Duran... (more)
"Route of the Streamliners" In a bit of an unconventional twist, Big Boy 4014 leads a Pocket Streamliner of 9 cars, with 844 and a diesel in trail.
