The Denver & Rio Grande Western Jordan Spreader AX-41 crosses over the soon-to-be demolished Rio Grande bridge just west of Leyden, Colorado.

Although faded, Jordan Spreader DRGW AX-41 still carries the yellow paint of the fallen Denver & Rio Grande Western flag. The Union Pacific moved the vintage spreader from the west slope of Color... (more)

The Union Pacific relocated their Denver & Rio Grande Western Jordan Spreader DRGW AX-41 from Grandby, Colorado to Denver, with the goal of taking it to Wyoming to help with the heavy snows.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear

It's 1973, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western is running over the the high line on the Silverton Branch. The K-28 476 is leadin... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway #491 (2-8-2) runs the grounds of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

A neat set of EMD FTs lead an east bound freight in 1945. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

D&RGW FT 541 leads 55 cars west bound with D&RGW 3617 visible in the distance shoving, on August 16th 1942. Otto Perry Kodacolor photo, from my collection.

EMD FTs lead 62 cars one mile south of Wolhurst Colorado, at Struby, on April 27th 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

No lights and no glass panes: diesel loc at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

Beautiful oldie at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.

D&RGW train 17, the California Zephyr, is seen near Cliff Colorado in the 1960s. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

On November 25, 1994, an empty Wisconsin Central unit coal/taconite ore train, operated in conjunction with Southern Pacific, curves over a trestle between Amherst Junction and Custer, and will so... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande PA-1 6013 on the point of the standard two car consist, the "Yampa Valley Mail" in a Blizzard at Winter Park, Colorado on January 19, 1962. Photo by H.F. Wagner,... (more)

PALMER LAKE CO — Rio Grande SD40T-2 5398 leads a coal train in this undated photo. The slide is unlabeled and the Kodalux slide mount doesn't contain any indication of month-year of development.... (more)

As afternoon storms send light rain to the ground, hard-working locomotives of a Rio Grande coal train grinding its way up the two percent grade of Winter Park hill throws exhaust and sand into th... (more)