Now a museum piece in Ogden, Utah. D&RGW 5371 with fellow tunnel motors 5349 and 5390 are working on the dirt train in October of 2004. It was too good to be true this safe haven of Rio Grande tun... (more)

Rio Grande SD45 5329 and first of the SD45s, the 5315 was delivered in January 1967, leads a pair of Geeps on a westbound coal train at Grand Junction, Colorado on January 1, 1969. Photo by F.H.... (more)

With Blanca Peak in the background, three ex Rio Grande boxcars sit left in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains'. This was all once heavy Rio Grande territory before the UP took over. As DRGW histo... (more)

Steamscape: The Highline. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 takes a Durango-bound mixed train through the most famous stretch of track on the 45-mile Silverton Branch, that being the hi... (more)

Take on some water at the Needleton Tank... After a water stop in the Animas wilderness at Needleton Tank (MP 484.4), Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 begins to accelerate her mixed tr... (more)

Crossing the Rio de los Pinos. A Rio Grande freight rumbles across the timber trestle that spans the Rio de los Pinos at Milepost 324.52, as it works north in the valley named for this rive... (more)

The sun is setting as the Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's #491 (2-8-2) heads to the depot where it will give rides as part of the annual Polar Express train. The... (more)

Homeward bound. The late afternoon shadows are rapidly swallowing up the high desert landscape outside Antonito, Colorado, as the Cumbres & Toltec's vintage 10-wheeler #168 brings her consi... (more)

Time travelers. Reliving a scene right out of the late 1880s, Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive #168 takes a vintage passenger train west through the Southern Colorado desert at Milepost 285.6... (more)

Heavy snow falls on Denver and Rio Grande Western #3011 as it sits in the yard of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

Heavy snow is falling on Denver & Rio Grande Western #683, a 2-8-0 locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1890.

Pickin' up the herd. The fall stock rush is in full swing as a Rio Grande freight out of Durango, CO takes the siding at the Chama stock pens to pick up a local rancher's herd for a trip to... (more)

Here comes the Silverton. In weather conditions that could best be described as "atmospheric", a Denver & Rio Grande Western, Silverton mixed train slowly snakes its way north thr... (more)

D&RGW 4-6-0 168. Built in 1883 and seen on a Pete Lerro Charter.

High bridge blow-down. The crew of Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 opens the blow-down valve as their locomotive leads a mixed train across the high bridge in Tacoma, near Milepost 47... (more)